Feature: Hardware Review (In Progress): Nintendo Switch 2 - A Faster, Slicker, Sexier Switch

Today’s RPG fans are ‘very sensitive to feeling like they wasted time’ when they die, says Metaphor: ReFantazio battle planner—but Atlus still made combat hard anyway

According to HowLongToBeat, Atlus’s 2024 RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is a mere 65-and-a-half hours long—if you stick to the critical path. Go for the mad completionist playthrough and you’re looking at 105 hours of turn-based battles, cutscenes and life simmy chats with your party members, which is objectively a lot of game. But imagine how much…

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ FF14 crossover update and Omega hunt lands on Monday, but we’re still waiting until December for those much-needed performance improvements

During its pre-TGS showcase stream earlier today, Capcom announced that the next major Monster Hunter Wilds update, featuring Final Fantasy 14 collaboration content, will launch on Monday, September 29. First revealed back in August, Title Update 3 will add Eorzea-themed hunts, equipment, and cosmetics, which—while appreciated—still leaves Wilds’ glaring performance issues largely unaddressed. The headlining…

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Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD

Gears of War: E-Day is set to launch on October 6, though there’s early access available before then. In the lead up to launch, The Coalition has posted expanded system requirements for the upcoming bug blast. These include what the game asks of your rig for top performance on the top settings—it’s not easygoing, to…

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Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: ‘That was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a videogame in a very long time’

Late last week, one of the highest level Path of Exile 2 players found something they’ve never seen before: a mysterious chamber in an empty room. Grinding Gear Games added a lot of new stuff in the recent Return of the Ancients update, like hidden rooms and powerful secret items, but it took one courageous…

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Suddenly Microsoft Paint rules: the new background removal tool is an impressive free alternative to Photoshop’s premium version

Paint now offers the single-most useful feature I require of a photo editing application: background removal. And before you turn your nose up at little ol’ Paint, let me tell you this: it’s really rather great. As a long-time Adobe Photoshop user, I’m often on my high horse about how good Photoshop’s background removal tools…

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