Path of Exile 2‘s recent 0.2.0 update did not go down well with players. The update unleashed nerf-a-geddon unto numerous classes and abilities, while also making monsters tougher by fattening their health bars. The purported aim of the update was to make the later game more challenging. But the effect, at least according to players,…
Backup break up. Just when you thought the messaging around Nintendo’s ‘Switch 2 Edition’ games couldn’t get any more confusing, another discovery comes along to stir things up even further. Looking at the game’s store pages, it seems some upcoming titles won’t support the Nintendo Switch Online Cloud Save feature — or maybe they will,…
Part of the second season of games. Playdate maker Panic has just revealed some of the games which will make up the handheld console’s second season of content (thanks, Polygon). Perhaps the highlight of the season is Fulcrum Defender, created by FTL: Faster than Light and Into the Breach developer Subset Games. Read the full…
Fists, feet, and weapons too. If you cast your mind back to 2023’s Wanted: Dead, a game this writer just couldn’t really get along with on Xbox, you may remember that, despite myriad issues, it still came close to being quite good. Well, sort of. Soleil’s action effort combined guns and fisticuffs into “Gun-Fu” of…
Here at PC Gamer we’d basically given up all hope of ever seeing new Western Digital SSD’s. After waiting patiently for what felt like an age to witness the birth of the brand’s Gen 5 Black SSDs we were hit by the news that SanDisk was taking over the reins earlier this year. This wasn’t…
It’s no secret that thanks to capitalism things tend to look a bit boring. Products, especially in the tech space, are generally produced en masse to eek out the most profit. With half the stuff coming from the same few factories, peripherals can wind up looking mighty homogenous. Once again thanks to capitalism, tie-ins with…
If you want to hear PC gamers get really particular, ask them about what switches they prefer in their keyboards. Some will go all in on clacky actuation punchers while others may prefer a lighter, softer approach. Those little pieces of engineering that sit between our fingers and the gaming world can make all the…
Outlaws arrives on Switch 2 later this year. Star Wars Outlaws is on the way to the Nintendo Switch 2 later this year and in case you missed it, it’s also getting some new “story pack” DLC. This includes ‘Wild Card’ (released last year) and the upcoming story ‘A Pirate’s Fortune‘. The development team has…
We first heard that Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws would be getting a pirate-themed expansion as the second story pack in the season pass, following the Lando-themed Wild Card DLC. Now, at Star Wars Celebration Japan, a release date has been announced, along with the trailer above. A Pirate’s Fortune will see Kay Vess working with…
Star Wars Celebration Japan has just begun, and during a panel about the upcoming Mandalorian movie spin-off, director Shawn Levy and actor Ryan Gosling popped up to announce a new Star Wars movie coming in 2027. “One of several theatrical projects still in development from Lucasfilm,” says starwars.com, “including films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold,…