“Switch trails only Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2”. The Nintendo Switch has smashed all sorts of records in 2023 and it turns out it’s just done it again in recent times. As highlighted by Circana (formerly NPD) industry analyst Mat Piscatella, the hybrid hardware managed to surpass “lifetime US unit sales” of Microsoft’s Xbox 360…
It might not be entirely sensible to refer to Kind Words—full name Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)— as a “game,” but we argued about that distinction enough in the 2010s that I think we can sideline it for the remainder of this decade. I only mention it as context for what…
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re doing so on Chrome. It’s the browser I’ve used daily for over a decade and makes up over 60% of overall browser usage. Trailing way behind is Safari with 18%, followed by Edge and Firefox. I can understand then, why longtime browser contestant Opera has been…
Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making…
Extremely cool fan project alert: someone, or someones, has released a PC port of Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, modernized to run fantastically on modern PCs. It adds widescreen and high framerate support, with a silky smooth camera that lets you explore Link’s Awakening as one large interconnected world instead of…
If you hate bards like Chris Livingston hates bards, you’ll be thrilled to hear that GOG is giving away the strategy dungeon-crawler Legend of Keepers to mark the start of its 2023 Winter Sale. “I hate bards, so I’m having a great time killing them in this reverse dungeon crawler,” PC Gamer’s resident music hater…
Welcome back, your majesty. We recently got to go hands-on with Ubisoft’s upcoming Metroidvania Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and came away feeling rather chuffed with the experience, indeed. Shifting the action from 3D to 2.5D, this latest entry boasts the talents of Ubisoft Montpellier, the team behind the sublime Rayman Origins and Rayman…
One of this year’s biggest surprises. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kate delves into a new addition to a f2p indie minnow called ‘Fortnite’ that turns out to be one of 2023’s best surprises… Read the full…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Compile Released: 1997 Format: Windows 95 (Image credit: Compile) I honestly can’t remember exactly when I first decided to give this colourful slice of simian silliness…
5 Nintendo Gadgets We Wish Existed, Based on Actual Patents They say that the book is humankind’s greatest invention — durable, navigable, versatile and non-reliant on external power sources or connectivity. Perhaps gaming’s equivalent invention is the deck of cards — be they the familiar 52 poker cards, Top Trumps or any other variation. Nintendo…