No such thing as ‘too much stability’. Nintendo has scheduled 90 minutes of maintenance to its network services on Thursday 31st July. As noted by Gamereactor, Nintendo’s Japanese website has flagged eShop maintenance later this week — between 7 – 8:30am UK time — during which Switch 2 and Switch network services may be affected….
Somehow, the fantasy MMO Guild Wars is 20 years old: It launched in 2005 and it’s still ticking over today. That’s an impressive accomplishment by any measure, and ArenaNet isn’t letting the anniversary pass unnoticed. The studio has rolled out a new content update that makes a range of previously-inaccessible promotional items from the early…
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Pinch me, I must be dreaming: rhythm games are kinda in right now. Fortnite Festival has been blowing up, and I’ve been secretly very giddy seeing so many people on my timeline posting their combo and score achievements with pride. I’m a long-time lover of rhythm games, but also a rather judgemental one (sorry Fortnite…
The recent GTA 6 “extended look” on Netflix wasn’t’ very clear on whether you can swap between its protagonists Jason and Lucia at will. Apart from a moment where the camera pulls away from Lucia and back down to Jason miles away, there wasn’t a lot of swapping going on, especially during the action. According…
One of the most popular JavaScript libraries, Axios, was recently the victim of an attack that had fake, malicious versions available to roll out to developers. These malicious versions install a remote access trojan (RAT), which is, as the name implies, a kind of malware that allows an attacker to access compromised devices from a…
Switch too. This is it: Switch 2 launches this month! Switch 1 will live on, of course (and we’re still excited to play Rhythm Heaven Groove and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream next year), but all eyes are on Nintendo’s new console, with its brand new games and its updates to existing classics. Yes, yes,…
“I would probably pitch a different pantheon…”. Monolith Productions — the company behind games like No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor — once pitched a video game adaptation of John Carpenter’s 1986 film Big Trouble In Little China to Fox. That’s according to a recent interview between Time Extension and…
From vampire nightclub owners to Proclaimers-singing reality TV stardom, pretend journalist bank robberies, and genuinely astonishing in-game Shakespeare ensembles, GTA roleplay is no stranger to turning full-blooded virtual violence into imaginative theatre production. The latest subculture to capture my imagination, however, is RP police academies. And I’m clearly not alone. Because while player cops in…
Sometime before Sony hero shooter Concord released, before it was even fully revealed to the public, the producers of Amazon TV series Secret Level—a collection of animated videogame shorts premiering on Prime Video on December 10—started working on an episode based on the game. They didn’t know that the short sci-fi tale they were animating…