Balatro may have started as a small hobby project, but several awards and millions of copies sold later, it’s easier to think of Balatro as the smash hit that now stars Geralt of Rivia and eats away the waking hours of anyone oblivious enough to fall under its spell. But developer LocalThunk never exactly craved…
Update: More tracks get shared. There’s a common argument that the SNES had superior audio hardware to its rival, the Genesis / Mega Drive, and, on paper at least, that’s hard to contest. Nintendo’s Sony-made sound chip is capable of some amazing music and sound, while the Genesis’ Yamaha YM2612 is based more around an…
Tracking down Renly’s tools in Path of Exile 2 might be giving you some trouble. While the game is usually pretty good at making it easy to find things—despite areas being randomized every time you visit—this item in-particular is tough to locate. During act one, you’ll be tasked with finding Renly’s equipment in the Finding…
Company believes move to 7nm possible without EUV We are coming up on the semi-centennial anniversary of Moore’s law, a prediction in 1965 by Intel founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an (economical) integrated circuit would continue to double every 12 months until at least 1975, at which point he revised the…
But who is the dreamer? Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream got a surprise demo or ‘Welcome Version’ on the Switch eShop last week following a round of previews for the upcoming life-sim/quirk generator. The demo includes the Mii creator from the game proper, and the internet has busied itself not just making their Miis say…
And nearly 8 million of those are on Switch. We all know Stardew Valley has been a runaway success ever since it released on PC in 2016. But it continues to sell gangbusters across multiple platforms, and as of December 2024, has reached an absolutely huge milestone. The farming sim has now sold 41 million…
Skål! Well, here’s a port that we weren’t expecting! Coffee Stain Studios has announced that the popular Viking survival game Valheim will be coming to Switch 2 in 2026. Having launched into Early Access back in 2021 before expanding to other platforms two years later, Valheim might feel like a bit of a known quantity…
A rarely-mentioned risk of games news writing is the threat of covering a game like Just Grill the Steak in the wee small hours of the morning, where the stores are closed and it’s hard to justify doing anything in the kitchen. I am extremely hungry now, and it will only get worse as I…
The marketing campaign begins. We’re slowly learning more about the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda movie, and following the reveal of the first cast members in July, it appears an official social media account has now been opened on the platform X (formerly known as Twitter). It’s tagged as @The_Zelda_Movie and in the bio mentions…
Every couple years we get one: that farm sim game that everyone talks about. In 2024 it was Fields of Mistria and in 2026 I think we’re already looking at this year’s belle of the ball with Starsand Island. It’s taken me 25 hours just to complete my first season in Starsand and I fear…