You may have seen last night that Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite sold a combined total of 735,926 units in the U.S. during the month of October 2020. These figures were from sales tracking group NPD and just goes to show how popular the Switch continues to be in the United…
In days of yore, before we had all this internet nonsense, leaks happened organically, concretely. They happened in printed books and in frantic conversations in the cloisters. In the time of the Roman Republic, unannounced videogames were leaked by loose-lipped sculptors in unguarded moments, out of their gourds on hippocras. A more civilised age, and…
MMOs—at least, the big boys that have endured from the massively multiplayer golden age—can sometimes be considered a smidge stale. Many design elements are, in a sense, solved. The Holy Trinity took over years ago, dungeon finders are a must, and heaven forbid if you’re running something suboptimal in a pick-up group of hypervigilant strangers,…
Catching up with Keychron’s CEO, Nick Xu, at Computex today, it wasn’t just carbon fiber keyboard concepts that caught my eye, it was a set of new mouse switches, and even a wee tease of something just over the horizon. Keychron originally unveiled its new MagOptic switches a month ago, showing off a new type…
We speak with Kazutoyo Maehiro and Hiroshi Minagawa. Boy, Square-Enix really wants us to party on our Switches like it’s… 1997. Because over the last few years, they’ve made three separate titles in a newly minted, old-school RPG franchise Octopath Traveler, and then there’s the upcoming Switch 2 release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the…
For reel. Ever since Viewfinder was first announced for Switch earlier this summer, we’ve been eager to find out how the award-winning photo puzzle game would hold up on the Nintendo hybrid. Well, today we learned that we don’t have long to wait. Thunderful and Sad Owl Games have announced that Viewfinder will arrive on…
Naffcar. If you enjoy racing around a large, oval track in fast cars, then you might want to grab one of the Nascar games on Switch before they vanish into thin air. Yes, thanks to an announcement from Motorsport Games (cheers, Nintendo Everything), titles from the NASCAR Heat and NASCAR Rivals franchises will be delisted…
The long war is over. Justice is done. The revolution, the necessity of which Assassin’s Creed players have discussed for a long time, has taken place. Edward’s hateful blowpipe is vanquished. In a new patch for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft proudly declares that “The Blowpipe Can Now Be Hidden.” Players, it turns out,…
I haven’t touched Grim Dawn in ages, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I first wrote about it 16 years ago (for a completely different site), when Crate Entertainment was fiddling around with something called “crowd contributed” game development: Give people an opportunity to pay now so they can play…
Gaming mice these days offer a wealth of features, like more remappable buttons than you can shake a magical cat girl stave at. However, I appreciate not everyone is a MMO sicko—so what if you feel like your gaming mouse has maybe too many buttons? For those craving a smoother, tactile device, there’s the wireless…