The 2025 edition of charity fundraising speedrun event Awesome Games Done Quick has been running for the last week, featuring such wonderfully absurd runs as an Elden Ring saxophone-controller boss showcase and a Crazy Taxi speedrun performed with a live band. As a Fallout sicko, I was pleased to see Tomatoangus (also known as Tomatoanus)…
Rainbow Six Siege is part of an exclusive club of multiplayer games that have been so successful for so long that, well, it’s now officially old. There have been rumblings for over a year now that Ubisoft was planning a huge, possibly sequel-sized update to its 10-year-old tactical FPS, but after the very public debacle…
As promised, Nintendo has released a new update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, bringing the game to version 9.0.1. There’s not much to this update, its main focus is on fixing glitches involving the Steve from Minecraft character, as well as adjusting a victory screen that had been unintentionally suggestive. The full patch notes are…
Dominating in Doom has always been about moving, shooting, and moving some more. The iconic FPS series reinvented itself in 2016 by forcing players into intimate tooth and nail battles. Doom Eternal ratchets up the intensity while layering on sinfully fun traversal options, resulting in a delightful dance of improvised chaos. Doom Eternal’s new traversal…
The last time I played Frostpunk 2, I was about a hair’s breadth away from a political breakdown. I had somehow managed to anger every faction. I fell behind on promises I made to pass laws, and every time I get something done I end up pissing off more people than I impress. In the…
Available now on the Keitai World Launcher. If you happen to be a Mega Man fan and a lover of classic retro-style tennis games, then we have some pretty exciting news to share. Mega Man’s Japan-exclusive tennis-themed spin-off has just received a new English fan translation, making it easier than ever to navigate the obscure…
The new decade kicks off with a trove of high-profile releases. Tracking all the gaming goodness releasing in early 2020 can be overwhelming, but we’ve got your back. The first part of the year has you covered whether you’re into surviving zombie outbreaks, fighting Hell through Heaven and Earth, or fending off vicious Infected. Below…
Claude-creator Anthropic has found that it’s actually easier to ‘poison’ Large Language Models than previously thought. In a recent blog post, Anthropic explains that as few as “250 malicious documents can produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume.” These findings arose from a joint study between…
Not so Ys-y. Updated with Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana and EGGCONSOLE Ys II MSX2. Enjoy! What’s the best Ys game on Switch? Falcom’s long-running action RPG series has been going for longer than Final Fantasy, and it’s a genre-defining franchise, but it’s not the most well-known series in the world. But those who…
That’s GR-eat! One of the more interesting new additions to the Switch 2 comes in the form of the ‘GL’ and ‘GR’ buttons, which can now be found on the rear of both the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller and on the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip. These two new buttons, besides allowing you more freedom…