Okay, for strategy games like Civilization or for shooters like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, I can kind of get behind the idea of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con mouse controls. However, the Nintendo Switch 2, like the original Switch, feels designed with a very minimalist approach in mind, and the mouse controls not only look…
Amid a memory supply crisis, in small part fueled by a shortage of NAND flash, it’s perhaps unsurprising that talk of a successor would now appear. Enter ReRAM, or ‘resistive random access memory.’ The tech has been in development for some time, though startup Weebit Nano Limited has just signed a licensing deal with semiconductor…
Cow nibble. Mario Kart World‘s expanded roster is a wonderful thing, but it also brings up more than a few questions. If Bone Fish is behind the wheel, do all creatures in the Mario universe have sentient skeletons? How can the likes of Goomba, Cheep Cheep and Dolphin drive without any real limbs to speak…
Graceful and spellbinding. Good Smile Company has announced it will be bolstering its Fire Emblem: Three Houses collection with a new Byleth Dancer scale figure. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The last ember of optimism in my subconscious wants me to believe that by putting the four words above in sequence, shouted in 30pt font, the truth of it has already rung out in your mind. You don’t need the impassioned argument about how Microsoft is the shameful poster child for just how contemptible an…
It’s already outpacing the Switch and PS4. The Switch 2 got off to a flying start at launch, and we’ve now got a little more insight about the system’s sales in the US. According to Circana’s Mat Piscatella, Nintendo’s new hybrid device sold 2.4 million units over its first three months on the market (from…
It is March 2024. Plunderstorm releases, and Blizzard eases up on its grind shortly after player complaints. It is May 2024. Blizzard releases Mists of Pandaria: Remix, and adjusts its Bronze rewards after players complain about an unnecessary grind. It is August 2024. World of Warcraft players aren’t pleased with the pre-patch event for The…
Category: ID@Xbox April 30, 2025 Indie Selects for April 2025: Fresh but Familiar Vibes Raymond Estrada, Nick Zuclich, Deron Mann, Oscar Polanco, Steven AllenID@Xbox Style Coordinators Sometimes you just can’t put your finger on it. You want something familiar and comforting, but also something just a little different. You want to mix it up with…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Bloomberg on Tuesday that he was “disappointed” about reports stating that he backed the FBI in its current battle with Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. That’s not his view on the situation, he said, but added that placing the right safeguards into…
When I was first approached about working on a new God of War comic, a prequel to this year’s PS4 game, I was both intrigued and intimidated. Intrigued, because I knew from the early promotional stuff I’d seen that the new game would move Kratos away from his roots in Greek mythology and transplant him…