Surfacing on Switch 2 soon. This week sees the arrival of Pokémon Pokopia ‘Bubbly Basin’ on the Switch 2, and ahead of its launch, Japanese outlet Famitsu has previewed the new Expansion Pass DLC. Not only is there new footage, but the publication has also shared some new information about what to expect. Read the…
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant,” former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said in 1969, describing the relationship between the US and Canada. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” This is…
Hey, Traveler! You’ve been exploring No Man’s Sky’s quintillions of planets for a while now (almost 10 years, if you can believe it). You’ve dug holes in those planets, exploited their resources, built bases and settlements on them, and spent hours either killing their lifeforms or taming and riding them. Did you ever think about,…
In real life I’m pretty sure I can’t pick up a rock, grab a stick, collect some “plant fiber” (whatever the hell that is), then use those three items to craft an axe that can cut down a few dozen trees. Most likely, my “axe” would break on the first swing and I’d have better…
Get it now… y’know, if you want. Publisher Atooi has announced — and released — a brand new roguelike dungeon hopper called Knights of the Rogue Dungeons. That’s right, you can get it from the eShop right now for the price of $9.99 / £8.99 (with a bonus 10% discount if you’re early). Showcasing voxel-based…
Adventure game royalty Broken Sword is the latest videogame to get a movie adaptation, with a film being co-developed by series creators Revolution Software and producer Story Kitchen, which has worked on numerous videogame adaptations for screen, including the (generally liked) Sonic the Hedgehog films and Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange TV show. Reported by…
Sometime in the first or second century AD, the ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria invented the world’s first steam engine. In Echoes of Elysium, an upcoming survival game from Loric Games, Heron didn’t stop there: He’s punched a hole into Elysium, the mythic paradise of Greco-Roman mythology, where he’s harvesting the souls…
Publisher Electronic Arts has rebranded its Frostbite engine, with the aim of better reflecting the tech as a “platform for collaborative innovation”. In an announcement on the publisher’s website, EA introduced a new brand direction for the engine, saying the it “signals not just a visual shift for Frostbite, but a philosophical one, with a…
Over the decades, astronomers have faced the increasingly tough problem of satellites appearing in their view of the universe. The rapid growth of Starlink, SpaceX’s web-from-space system, isn’t just impacting countless pictures using visible light but also those in other parts of the spectrum. A recent study of 76 million images shows that the satellites…
Stand by for Titanfall 2, which drops onto PS4 October 28. Titanfall 2 tells the story of militia rifleman Jack Cooper, a soldier thrust into an extreme situation with entire worlds at stake. Given control of a powerful war machine known as a Titan, Jack must push against impossible odds to survive. Outside of the…