Super-smooth. Moving from the Switch 1 Pro Controller to the Switch 2 Pro Controller, Nintendo has largely taken the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ route. Keeping the same basic layout intact, it instead applied several small, but significant improvements to make this latest iteration the very best Nintendo controller I’ve ever had the…
Here are the full details. Following the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch 2 Edition last month, Nintendo has now released its second update for the title this year. It addresses multiple issues and makes some adjustments on both the Switch and Switch 2. There are also some updates specific to the Switch…
“Launching this holiday season or Early 2027”. If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ll no doubt be aware that I have a particular fondness for Computer Exchange, otherwise known as CeX. This isn’t based on the modern-day iteration of the store, I should note, but the original ’90s and 2000s format, which…
2023 is very near its end, but the bad news for the videogame industry keeps on coming. Just three days before Christmas, TinyBuild has laid off all staff at indie publisher Versus Evil and shut it down. Versus Evil’s closure was initially reported by now-former employees on Twitter. “Welp. That was a fun 10 year…
This is Marc and Brian from Drool. For the past few years, we’ve been making Thumper, our rhythm violence game. Today, we’re happy to announce Thumper will make its console debut on PS4 in 2016. Thumper strips rhythm gaming down to its core. With one analog stick and one button, you control a space beetle…
Nine commercial i-mode games have now been saved. When it comes to video game preservation, NTT DoCoMo’s popular Japanese feature phone service i-mode has often been overlooked. That’s in spite of famous Japanese companies like Capcom, Enix, Konami, Namco, and more having published high-quality games & applications for the platform. This mostly comes down to…
We’ve been working on Vermintide 2 for PlayStation 4 for a while now, and it’s finally time! On December 18, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is coming to PS4. The Closed Beta goes live today, and if you pre-order the game you get instant access to the Closed Beta, as well as four days early access and…
If you just can’t wait for Christmas day and fancy playing a Christmas themed game right now, then you might be interested to know that LC-Games, who was also behind Dig Dug Revival, Bagman Strikes Back and many many others, has released the Christmas game of ‘Santa’s Troubles’: A game in which you have to help Santa…
Famitsu is organising the Super Smash Bros Ultimate battle to end all battles as they have announced a cross-company tournament which will feature members of Nintendo’s rivals, Sony Interactive Entertainment. This spectacular tournament will kick off on Friday, 22nd November at 8pm Japan time. Here’s the details along with the eight companies who are participating…
I’ll admit one thing to you right now: I don’t like in-ear headphones. I never really have. They just don’t feel right in my ears for longer than an hour or so. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been keen on the idea of having a piece of silicon shoved in my ear to listen to…