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...

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...

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...

Balatro is one of the (many, many) games marked down for Steam’s annual summer sale. Take it from me: Picking up Balatro on sale — no matter how big or small the discount — is one of the safest bets you can make. As someone who couldn’t tell a flush from a full house but could rattle off every Pokémon TCG Pocket mechanic by heart, I only gave Balatro a shot...

Imagine, after two grueling waves in Elden Ring Nightreign, you and a couple of comrades reach the boss at the end of the second night and take him head-on, with surprisingly good results. It’s nearing the halfway mark of its health, and before Crucible Knight goes into its aggressive secondary phase, another health bar populates on the screen. It’s the hungry, hungry Golden Hippopotamus here to ruin your hot streak. ...

In summer 2023, Blizzard debuted Overwatch 2’s Flashpoint, a combination of Control and Assault where teams race to occupy a series of territory points. Flashpoint was the first new map type for the series since the unpopular Push launched alongside Overwatch 2, and kind of a big deal. It was also kind of a disaster. Almost immediately upon launch, Reddit filled up with complaints about the mode’s map designs. Fast...