It’s about ensuring the “game experience” is at its best. Nintendo’s new GameChat function opens up new ways for Switch 2 owners to communicate with friends and families online, but the early showcase of other player screens showed some choppy framerates. It turns out this is an intentional decision to ensure GameChat saves system resources…
Is Capcom up to something? Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has sold incredibly well on Nintendo hardware over the years and while there have been no official updates about the mainline series returning to Switch hardware anytime soon, something rather interesting has apparently been discovered in a new Monster Hunter Wilds datamine. In the title’s latest…
When Lunar debuted in North America in 1993, it was a standout in the emerging Western market for Japanese RPGs. Lunar featured detailed, animated cinematic cutscenes, plenty of voice acting, high-quality music, and–most importantly–an endearing story packed with engaging and memorable characters. While it wasn’t the first CD-ROM-based JRPG to hit the market, it was…
A decade of support As close as we are to the release of Windows 10, there are still some questions that remain. Microsoft seems to have answered one of the biggest ones by today officially committing to support Windows 10 for the next 10 years. The Redmond software giant updated its support lifecycle page to…
Built for gaming, the AceZone A-Blaze design skirts a fine line between affordability, portability, and practicality. Against previous AceZone wireless gaming headsets, we’re looking at a fairly cut-down model meant to bring pro-gaming audio to the masses. There’s a lot of competition in this price range though, and while the A-Blaze sticks to its roots…
Toshiba has been making some changes, and shifting its focus, which has resulted in the company cutting back on its consumer PC division and focusing more on the business market. So Maximum PC Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang was able to visit the company’s office to see what the company has been up to since…
A potentially beastly card in the making Go ahead and apply the standard disclaimer about leaked specs not being verified or official, because that’s certainly the case here. Disclaimer aside, we hope that unconfirmed specifications of the AMD’s forthcoming Radeon R9 390X graphics card turn out to be accurate, because if they are, it’s going…
We all know Doom was so popular, so monumental, that it changed videogames forever. As a society, we’re still obsessed with installing Doom on increasingly improbable devices, from pregnancy tests to vapes. But sometimes I run into an old factoid about Doom, some detail from its heyday that I’d forgotten, that still puts it in…
Tom Nook is on the clock. Nintendo released its very own alarm clock last year and it’s been getting regular updates ever since. If you’ve been wanting a new look, or at least a different theme, today’s update might be of interest. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The next Battlefield 6 patch is squarely aimed at its most annoying bugs. As promised by DICE lead producer David Sirland last week, the quality-of-life update will address the gun dispersion issues, incorrect vehicle spawns, the unstoppable lock-on missile, and most notably, the “drone hammer” bug that let players levitate on command. That last bug…