US: Nintendo Download for 16th April 2020

US: Nintendo Download for 16th April 2020

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope* – Enjoy the original standalone adventure that launched Shovel Knight on his quest to discover the true meaning of shovel justice. Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope is a sweeping, classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable…

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I’m sorry to break it to you, but don’t expect to be able to play an evil pest in Crimson Desert: ‘Would I recommend a full playthrough in that playstyle? Eh, I don’t know’

Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don’t worry, it miraculously avoids non-preorder microtransactions at launch), isn’t an RPG. Despite having oodles of systems, gear, and a large map to explore that might make you think otherwise, the developers are steadfast in avoiding the loaded term….

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Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts

I love graphics cards. They’re absolutely my favourite PC component. That’s not a hot take; I’m a simple man and thing-makes-pretty-pictures-flow-faster-in-front-of-eyes is an easy thing to become obsessed with. And I’ve had a long time to get nerdy with them, too, having built my first PC in the early ’90s and been professionally testing PC…

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John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says ‘Quake ruined id Software,’ and for once John Romero doesn’t tell Sandy he’s wrong

The 30th anniversary of Quake recently passed by—June 22, 2026 was the day—and of course there were acknowledgements, salutes, and celebrations a-plenty, as you’d expect for such a groundbreaking, influential, and enduring game. But it also got a couple of the driving forces behind it reflecting on those days rather more deeply, and as sometimes…

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Lords of the Fallen: Best weapons to grab early

It’s hard to decipher which are the best weapons in Lords of Fallen when the game boasts over one hundred different ways to bash in demonic heads and slice up umbral monstrosities—that’s not even taking into account spell catalysts, either. Before long, your inventory will be filled with more armaments than you can ever feasibly…

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