Special stages. Sonic the Hedgehog is one of gaming’s most enduring characters. He’s been through multiple eras and designs over the course of a 35-year career, starring in a huge number of games, and branching out from his bread-and-butter platformers with spin-offs in many other gaming genres. And he’s not going anywhere, as the massive…
Blizzard is a legendary RTS developer, which is easy to forget in 2023. Along with Westwood, it effectively built the genre, establishing its foundations and designing mechanics and features that modern RTS games still stick with today. With that in mind, it’s pretty tragic to see how little attention Blizzard is giving the genre these…
As someone who has been a die-hard adherent of Firefox for going on 20 years. I was shocked to discover that less than 3% of Internet users surf the web using Mozilla’s open-source web-browser. Sure, Firefox can feel like it’s held together with masking tape at times. But it’s still superior to Edge while also…
Dark Souls 2 is widely considered the “worst” Dark Souls game, which is not only wrong (that distinction goes to the greatest hits listlessness of Dark Souls 3) but ignores the fact that it could have had a giant hermit crab with a castle tower as a shell. As discovered by YouTuber Zullie the Witch,…
Cases and keyboards and headsets, oh my! Rosewill has been Newegg’s house brand for over a decade now, though for the past couple of years, the company’s been focusing on making a name for itself as a budget friendly manufacturer of gaming products. Sometimes that strategy can equate to boring products, though Rosewill has some…
I loved almost every aspect of Fallout’s first season, but one element that topped all else was how the Wasteland was imagined. Opting for mostly practical sets meant that all the locations that the first season ventured through looked just as I had imagined they should, and with the second season venturing to New Vegas,…
Terraria has been updated on the Nintendo Switch. Once you update, the game should be at version 1.0.7. This update adds the two-player split-screen feature, as well as “a solid handful of bug fixes”. As for future updates, the dev team says that they will “turn towards the future of Terraria on Nintendo Switch: Journey’s…
“I’d love to have finished that game”. Peter Molyneux is one of the video game industry’s true pioneers. He forged his reputation with groundbreaking titles such as Populous and Powermonger, and, later in his career, would oversee titles such as Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper, Fable and Black & White. In more recent times,…
“I have a PLAN, Arthur!”. When Rockstar Games launched Red Dead Redemption on the Switch, our thoughts immediately turned to its excellent sequel: could Red Dead Redemption 2 come to the Switch 2? Well, according to a couple of new reports from GameReactor and Nintenduo, yes, it can and it will. Take this strictly as…
Palworld deserves kudos for actually following up on its success with bug fixes—Pocketpair now has the unenviable task of matching the sudden, unanticipated expectations that come with an indie breakout success with further support. The team’s stated mission goal on its roadmap—primarily a focus on squashing game-breaking bugs—is getting done. Patch v.0.1.4.0 aims to fix…