Category: Games Mechanisms Become Mechanics: Inventing Puzzles for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published December 2, 2024 From refracting light through the Staff of Ra, to decoding the mysteries of the Grail Temple, the Indiana Jones series has repeatedly returned to puzzles as part of its storytelling. In many…
Another pair of platforms are poised to join the likes of Facebook, X, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube in the EU Digital Services Act’s Very Large Online Platforms list, according to Bloomberg. With that designation comes stricter rules, which I’m sure the Roblox Corporation and OpenAI will be happy to follow. The DSA designates any platform…
Now that’s Friendship. After months of leaks, teases, and unexpected inclusions, Digital Eclipse’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection finally has a release date for both digital and physical versions. Digitally, the game will launch on the Switch eShop — both Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions – on 30th October 2025. A physical release follows on…
Nintendo of America has announced that the latest batch of Super Nintendo and Nintendo Entertainment System games are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. You can now enjoy the classic 2D platformer Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest and The Peace Keepers for the Super Nintendo app and Mario’s Super Picross and S.C.A.T…
During a 10th-anniversary livestream where Kojima Productions announced its own saké and a credit card (seriously), it’s probably no surprise that Death Stranding is getting an anime. Death Stranding Mosquito is its working title, and it’s in production at ABC Animation Studio, with Hiroshi Miyamoto as director (Sonic Team, Eiga Hugtto! Precure x Futari wa…
Nintendo has recently released an update for Jump Rope Challenge, bringing it to version 1.2.0. Other than the usual big fixes that are done every update, an interesting addition was made. Firstly, after you’ve completed 100 days, you can now see how you’ve progressed via a results screen, and if you want to, you can…
It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there’s a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits. Nukemark is based in…
Raiders of the Lost Carp. I’ve had my fingers crossed for a single-player Splatoon game ever since… well, since Splatoon 1, now that I think about it. I love a bit of online Turf War battling, really I do, but the very best parts of the series for me have always been those stellar single-player…
Tackling a Titan X Nvidia finally made official a new flagship graphics card today, the mighty GeForce Titan X, and right on cue are the barrage of announcements from system builders flaunting the availability of the successor to Titan Z. That includes boutique builder Digital Storm, which is now (or soon) offering the Titan X…
When I heard about this year’s Minecraft mob vote, I thought to myself, “Gosh, that sounds like fun! Some discussion, some debate, a little bit of good-natured trash talk, and at the end of the day, a new creature for players to enjoy.” Dear readers, I was wrong. A big chunk of the Minecraft community…