As the shroom-hopping race begins, the starter’s pistol backfires, delivering a bullet straight through his foot. He hoots and curses, and the racers stall in the blocks, waiting for confirmation that the contest has really begun. I take the opportunity to grab an early lead, sprinting ahead into a field of oversized fungi. “It was…
Both phases of the Battlefield 6 open beta have given us heaps of in-game challenges to complete to earn exclusive rewards once the game fully launches in October. However, there’s actually another event going on that no one seems to know about: Destruction Receipts. Given it’s not featured in the in-game menus, I’m not too…
Giving back to the community always feels good At Maximum PC, we do a lot with our computers, work, content consumption, and gaming. We love gaming. Gaming is the one major industry that really pushes the PC ecosystem forward. So what better way to support the community than to give back? Ubisoft is celebrating the…
Obsidian head honcho and all around RPG veteran Josh Sawyer did another Tumblr Q&A earlier this week (seen above), wherein he dispensed some more of his design wisdom. For the uninitiated, Sawyer is a seasoned developer—having worked on games like Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, and the Pillars of Eternity series—as well…
Sword subject. It might have been one of the worst-kept secrets in video games in the run-up to its official announcement, but yes, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is coming to Switch 2. In fact, it’s arriving tomorrow. Now, we were rather impressed with Star Wars Outlaws when it arrived on the new hybrid system back in…
Nvidia has released the largest part of its RTX Blackwell desktop graphics card range now, and so, isn’t it about time we had a swell of brand new gaming laptops replete with new RTX 50-series mobile chips? I think so, too, and so does Nvidia, which is why we’re about to see a glut of…
In case you missed it: this past weekend saw social media platform TikTok banned completely in the US, then restored about 12 hours later thanks to the personal intervention of Donald Trump. Watching the whole series of events unfold on the app itself was chaotic, revelatory, and fascinating—and now it all feels like the morning…
“I think there are people who have trouble connecting with cute characters”. There are plenty of notable things about 4PGP, which launches on Switch and Switch 2 today – the iconic (but unlicensed) 1990s F1 cars, the 120Hz visuals (on Switch 2) and the four-player split-screen mode – but I have to admit that, as…
A concept trailer for an abandoned Lego James Bond game has leaked online, and is currently being chased around by lawyers in a game of copyright whack-a-mole. The minute-long trailer, first shared on X but now mirrored across various platforms and easily findable, shows a selection of the different Bonds and recreations of some iconic…
Latency, performance and resolution investigated. GameCube has joined the Switch 2’s library of classic games, and it was recently updated with Mario Smash Football. While the service’s experience has been fun so far, there have also been some reports of underlying issues with the emulation. Now, Digital Foundry has tested GameCube emulation and backward compatibility…