The Switch 2 isn’t just a new hardware release — it’s a chance to change the narrative about Nintendo as a company. At first, the release of the Switch 2 appeared to be an all-out victory lap for the Japanese publisher, whose first fully online console arguably won the console war of its generation. You can’t find a Switch 2 anywhere; sales records are being broken already. Seemingly everyone’s playing...
Red Dead Redemption 2’s multiplayer mode, Red Dead Online, hasn’t seen much action since Rockstar Games’ 2022 announcement that it would be cutting back support for the game. But it seems the studio hasn’t completely given up on the live-service title, as Rockstar has just released Strange Tales Of The West Vol. 1, a new set of Telegram Missions that introduce a multitude of strange new features to the game,...
Marvel Rivals is already heading into its third season and developer NetEase has released a new trailer to commemorate the update, set to release on July 11. The teaser shows features Knull sitting atop a throne in Klyntar, plotting on how to spread darkness via symbiotes across the cosmos. Knull then makes Hela his “Queen in Black,” hellbent on causing destruction in the wake of the Timestream Entanglement. Phoenix makes...
Leviathan, Netflix’s anime adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s World War I alt-history trilogy, offers a wild new twist on the dawn of industrialized warfare. Writing about an era when humans began killing each other at a scale that was previously unimaginable, Westerfeld imagines the Allied Powers using genetically engineered animals as their primary weapons and modes of military transport, while the Central Powers use steampunk mechs. But while that premise offers...
Xbox is adding more new and returning titles to Game Pass for July. So, now is the perfect time to finally give High on Life a proper go! Squanch Games’ comical shooter returns to the subscription service on July 15, available to Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard subscribers. If you’re wondering why High on Life’s art direction feels Rick and Morty-esque, well, that’s because the...
Season 4 Reloaded is out this week in Black Ops 6, adding Beavis, Butthead, and a cartoonified look in the next phase of Call of Duty’s Fortniteification process. Behind two of the most stoner-coded cartoon characters in history, Season 4 Reloaded also adds new weapons and events to Black Ops 6, in addition to some twists on old maps. Here’s when Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded releases in your time zone, when...
Last month, we battled many forms and shapes of the supernatural to connect and escape. Some big new releases included Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, FBC: Firebreak, and Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic. How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we...
Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s new movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man got its first explosive trailer on Tuesday, showing Glen Powell (Hit Man, Top Gun: Maverick) as titular man on the run Ben Richards. Wright’s version of The Running Man — which was very loosely adapted for the screen in 1987, with Arnold Schwarzenegger starring — hews closer to King’s original novel....
It’s official: The team at Nintendo behind 2017’s Super Mario Odyssey is responsible for upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo has confirmed. Nintendo revealed that detail, which many fans had already suspected, during recent hands-on events with Donkey Kong Bananza, saying that the same team that developed Super Mario Odyssey is behind this month’s Switch 2 release. Confirmation of Donkey Kong Bananza’s developer is something of a deviation...
Playing Donkey Kong Bananza recently at a hands-on event in New York, I started to question: Does Donkey Kong have the juice? Yes, Donkey Kong’s new action-adventure game looks great running on Nintendo Switch 2, and the level of environmental destruction made possible by DK’s meaty paws is very technically impressive. But after beating my first boss, a cakewalk of an evil (Grumpy) Kong who I smacked around so mercilessly...