On top of the improved graphical performance for the Switch 2 versions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, there will be a suite of new features in the Nintendo Switch phone app, including an achievement system and, strangely, a voice navigation
It’s a good thing that the Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a base 256 GB of internal storage — eight times more than the original Switch’s paltry 32 GB — because some Nintendo Switch 2 games won’t come on the cartridge at all; instead, so-called “game-key cards” will simply
Malys will head to Kickstarter this month, and Summerfall Studios hopes to have it out by the end of 2025.
Fans faced a bit of sticker shock today when Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 would cost $450 , especially with some new physical games set to cost as much as $90. But the price of upgrading to the Mario maker’s next console generation is set to get even worse after President
Here's when you can get Weaving.
Navigating the eShop on the Nintendo Switch is a trial. Not only does it chug when you’re scrolling through games, it’s borderline impossible to find exactly what you want. Even new games are sometimes hard to find. And there are entire websites dedicated to doing the heavy
Today, during Nintendo’s big Switch 2 Direct , we got a bunch of trailers for upcoming games and finally learned that the new console will be launching June 5. But the real star of the show wasn’t a new Donkey Kong game or voice chat, it was a simple yet badass cow on a scooter
A Minecraft Movie comes out this weekend and early reviews are all over the place. Some are calling the gaming adaptation starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa a nonsensical disaster, while others think it’s not actually that bad. Microsoft’s Hollywood debut might feel like naked
Nintendo confirmed back in November 2024, two months before the company even unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2, that the new console would be backward-compatible with games for the original Nintendo Switch. Now, after detailing the system’s hardware and software in an hourlong
What is a hunter without sportsmanship?
Donkey Kong will break new ground in his new Switch 2 game, Donkey Kong Bananza. I mean that literally, in the sense that the 3D action-adventure game is about destruction and digging into the hard earth with DK’s meaty fists. But Bananza will also push the Donkey Kong series
Today's Nintendo Direct showcase had some good news for PC gamers too.
Ohio currently has nine bills in the legislative pipeline directly targeting trans people, restricting access rights to healthcare, education, and more. Itch.io is providing an easy way to fight back with a bundle containing more than 400 TTRPGs from independent creators. While
Most critics seem to think Jack Black's blocky blockbuster is a bit mid.
BattleTech: Gothic, the latest in the long line of BattleTech tabletop adaptations, broke cover at this year’s AdeptiCon convention in Milwaukee. When it was first announced on March 25, many who initially learned about it on Facebook thought for sure that it was an April
Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions is set to launch in 2026.
On Wednesday, Nintendo held a big Direct dedicated to the upcoming Switch 2. The new console is set to launch on June 5 and will cost $450. And one of the launch games for the console is Mario Kart World, a big, sprawling kart racer that looks like a lot of fun. But uh, what
Battery life for gaming handhelds is always a challenge but the tradeoffs for the Switch 2 appear to be particularly brutal. Nintendo has confirmed that the next-gen device will run for anywhere from 2-6.5 hours on a single charge depending on what you’re playing. It ain’t
Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct stream suffered technical issues at the most inopportune time for the developers of Astroneer. Near the end of Wednesday’s presentation, a trailer for their new game debuted on the stream during a period where many viewers were stuck looking at a
In the latest Reality Check, psychologist Dr. Audrey Tang grades The Last of Us Part 2's depictions of human behavior.
A paper from the Offenburg University in Germany shows new statistics about sexual harassment in Valorant and Overwatch, two popular online multiplayer shooters from Riot Games and Blizzard Entertainment. The results showed that sexual harassment and abusive comments are still
Nintendo took an unusual approach to the past two decades of video game console wars. It stayed out of them. But with today’s Nintendo Switch 2 info dump — packed with big-name third-party games rarely seen on Nintendo hardware — the House that Mario Built appears ready to
"You have to take some swings."
"Do it just for the sake of being creative."
I hope no one set any explosive boobytraps up.
The Nintendo Switch 2 launches on June 5 and at least one major retailer is bringing back an old-school midnight launch to help fans celebrate early. Best Buy will be opening stores at 12:01 a.m. ET for anyone who pre-ordered the console and launch games like Mario Kart World.
We knew there was a new Mario Kart coming to Switch 2, but we didn’t expect it to cost this much. After showing off the open-world racing game Mario Kart World on Wednesday during its Switch 2 Nintendo Direct showcase, Nintendo revealed that the game will have a $79.99 price
The Star Wars Tales anthology series is back for another installment, this time focusing on the criminal underworld of a galaxy far far away. On Wednesday, Disney released the first trailer for the six-episode season, titled Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld. While the trailer
On April 2, Nintendo pulled back the curtain and revealed all about the Switch 2. The upcoming console is set to launch on June 5 and will cost $450 . So what will be available to play on your fancy new Switch 2 later this year? We have a list that should prove useful! Read
The Nintendo Switch 2 is launching on June 5, though pre-orders are going live on Wednesday, April 9. While I wish to exist in a world where you could easily click “buy” and be guaranteed a console come launch day, it’s not so simple in reality. Hundreds of thousands of people,
The full reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 was largely focused on all the new games you can play. The hardware specs weren’t the focus, but Nintendo dropped a detailed list of what’s inside the Switch 2 on its website. Most of what we knew from the original announcement video and
You can finally introduce the cast of Baldur’s Gate 3 to your next tabletop campaign with WizKids’ new collection of miniatures, including box sets and blind boxes. As part of its Icons of the Realms lineup, the $49.99 character boxed set includes seven pre-painted minis of
“The Tournament” is a tricky Assassin’s Creed Shadows quest that is ostensibly straightforward but doesn’t appear in your map through obvious means. In this Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide, we’ll tell you how we got “The Tournament” quest to appear in our own game, tell you
It's not the same base decay system found in Funcom's other sandy survival game, Conan Exiles.
Now that everything's sorted, work on the mod that brings Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley will resume.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will cost $449.99, and will be available to pre-order April 9. The closest thing to a discount on it comes from GameStop, which is offering slightly boosted trade-in value for your old Switch starting the day that pre-orders begin. You’ll only get the
Following today’s hour-long Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, the company has continued to post new information about the console and its upcoming games. This post-Direct news feed included a series of interviews with the people behind the creation of the $450 console —launching in
A Nintendo Switch 2 will set you back $450. Mario Kart World will be $90 for the physical version. There’s a tutorial for the new hardware and its features complete with demos and minigames called Switch 2 Welcome Tour. It will also cost money. Nintendo is preparing to launch
January’s Nintendo Switch 2 reveal event took the wraps off the console, but left a lot of details unanswered, until today. After the initial reveal, I put together an analysis of the possible pricing for the console, using Nintendo’s own historical pricing strategies to guide
Back in January, I lamented the idea that the Switch 2 would simply be an upgraded Switch . Not because I wouldn’t buy one—I’d be there day one regardless—but because what I’ve loved about Nintendo for so many decades is the company’s desire to just be strange. From the
This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love.
A well-rounded option but we’d be very tempted to spend a little more.
This motherboard has stiff competition but for the right price...
A drool-worthy motherboard, and I don't say that often.
Path of Exile 2 patch 0.2.0, officially titled “Dawn of the Hunt” and the first major content update to the early access game, is releasing this week. The headline is the Huntress class, new Ascendancy classes, a ton of endgame content, and much more. Here’s when Path of Exile
During today’s Switch 2 breakdown, Nintendo showed off an exclusive FromSoftware game for the upcoming console called The Duskbloods, which despite its online multiplayer focus looks kind of like a Bloodborne sequel in everything but name. The Duskbloods reveal opens with a man
Marvel Rivals codes allows you to get bonus goodies in the third-person hero shooter set in the Marvel Universe. So far, all of these codes have come from the NetEase Games’ social channels for the game, but to keep things convenient, this dedicated Marvel Rivals codes guide
Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World will feature 24-player races for the first time in series history. That bigger player count therefore warrants an expanded roster of racers, which means Nintendo is now forced to let anyone and anything from the Mario series get behind the