“A solid Switch port with some unexpected failings”. The folks at this Digital Foundry have this week taken a look at the latest Switch release Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. In brief, the resolution and frame rate are “surprisingly solid”. This Unity-powered game runs at 1080p docked and 720p in handheld mode on the Switch…
Spring into action. Amazingly, it’s been four years since Rune Factory 5 finally arrived on Nintendo Switch. And while we’ve had the fabulous Rune Factory 3 Special, a remaster of the popular DS title, we haven’t seen a new entry for a minute. Well, that’s about to change: Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will be…
I was an early adopter of the Roomba back in the early 2000s. It sucked, and not in the way it was supposed to suck: up dirt. The first Roomba barely picked up anything. It bumped into everything else. It couldn’t find its charging station. It was deafeningly loud. Cleaning its undercarriage took more time…
Better late than never. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind made its debut on the Switch eShop in December last year but was missing one key mode on the Switch. Fortunately, online play has now finally arrived in the latest update – allowing players to “connect with friends” and punch some putties (together). Here’s the…
Earlier today, Matthew Ball, CEO of investment strategy firm Epyllion, released an early version of a presentation called “The State of Video Gaming in 2025.” The slideshow, which incorporates data from market research firms like IDG, Newzoo, and Circana, summarizes worldwide market trends in the gaming industry. I’ll be honest: Things aren’t great. Following a…
Helldivers 2 is being made into a movie, and if we’re lucky it’ll feature a star-studded cast from top to bottom—and if we’re really lucky, we’ll get to watch them all die horribly at the hands of marauding bugs, bots, and creepy aliens. That ambitious plan was shared on the Helldivers 2 Discord by Arrowhead…
If you’ve ever thought to yourself that what you really want from life is a videogame inspired by Romanian folkore, David Lynch, and heavy metal, then wow, this is your lucky day. Because the “dark fantasy hack-and-slash adventure” called Moroi, set to launch in early 2025, claims to be exactly that. Moroi takes place within…
Riot Games says it “screwed up” recent changes to League of Legends that were intended to simplify the game’s overly complex reward systems, but instead dramatically slowed level advancement and new hero unlocks. Head of studio Andrei “Meddler” van Roon said in an update posted today that “the numbers we shipped were pretty far off…
Just before all the hubbub about the Sims 4 anniversary updates yesterday, its predecessor got an unexpected update too. The Sims 3 just got its first patch in years this week and so far EA’s just said nothing about it. According to an old archive of Sims 3 patch notes, the last time the game…
I am very tired. I should be long past videogame all-nighters, but last night saw me incapable of dragging myself away from my PC. I needed to get through one more wave of demonic horrors. Build one more tower. Kill one more elite. More than any of that, though, I desperately needed to figure out…