2025 was the year of friendslop: bite-sized, inexpensive games that center co-op and proximity voice chat as vehicles for silliness, scares, and slapstick. One of the genre’s biggest smash hits, Peak, is a poster child for the slightly maligned, kind of derogatory label. But in an interview at GDC, Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman…
GRIME! Alisa! Project Downfall! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop – Highlights GRIME Definitive…
This Halloween, dozens of corpses were scattered throughout a massive arena where 64 players dueled to the death in World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore’s deadliest tournament: the OTK Network’s Hardcore Mak’gora Event. The competition had WoW Classic players spend October leveling up new characters before battling each other to the death (permadeath, since this is…
All Living Things is one of those games I had to check out based on its look alone. It’s an interactive alchemical picture book with claymation art, and its demo has me looking forward to the full version of this short, experimental mood piece. I’m just a simple country games journalist who doesn’t know much…
Marvel Rivals‘ roster is growing rapidly, and with two heroes per season, one for each half, NetEase is quickly running through the list of fan-favourite superheroes. Luckily, Marvel has more than enough to go around, which means NetEase can hold off on making any original heroes for the time being. While NetEase does have the…
The Switch title received a free update last month. Alongside Switch 2’s launch last month, Nintendo rolled out multiple free Switch game updates. One of these was for Game Builder Garage – which not only included visual optimisations but also added Joy-Con 2 mouse support. Now, timed in with this update and the game’s fourth…
Top Deal: Storage has always been one of the major bottlenecks of system performance. But then came 7,200 RPM hard drives with large cache buffers, and then Western Digital’s Raptor, which kicked things up to 10,000 RPM! They served their purpose, but if you still using a mechanical hard drive, do yourself a favor and…
Marvel Rivals’ latest update brings a couple of helpful fixes, some new skins, and the ability to customise the colour of every current hero costume in the game. Costume Colours have arrived right in time for the Hellfire Gala, and it’s such a cool idea I can’t believe I hadn’t thought about something like this…
CAD renders hint at a seriously thin device. Clamshell handhelds are all the rage these days, reviving a trend which started all the way back in the early ’80s when Nintendo released its dual-screen Game & Watch range. While many of these new clamshells use the form factor to present the player with two displays,…
What a week, eh? We have started the odd What Are You Playing post in the past with some comment about “gosh, that was a busy week!”, but this week really has been the granddaddy of them all. Just in case you somehow missed it, Nintendo finally lifted the lid on Switch 2! In an…