A heat wave is cooking much of the United States this week, bringing high temperatures to millions of people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and prompting health warnings across multiple states. As record-breaking temps are expected to affect North America and Europe this summer — it may be the second-hottest summer on record — be mindful of playing your Switch 2 (as well as your Steam Deck or other...

For video games, the summer season kicker off with a double-header: the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, smack amid the three-day slew of game reveals that comprise Summer Game Fest (and its surrounding press conferences). But the most exciting games of the summer aren’t all Switch 2 ports or massive studio tentpoles. In fact, it’s the smaller games — the indies and the AA gems — that have captured...

It has been six years since Ring Fit Adventure, the Nintendo Switch fitness game that asked players to defeat monsters (and a sexy dragon) through exercise. The workout game used the Joy-Cons’ accelerometers to measure your movements and translate them into fitness attacks on screen. It’s weird, it’s wacky, but it worked. I played quite a bit of Ring Fit during the COVID-19 lockdown. What can I say: Nintendo kept...

28 Weeks Later Nearly 22 years after Danny Boyle shook up the zombie genre with 28 Days Later, the director makes a return to the saga of the infested with this week’s 28 Years Later. As the title implies, it’s been a long time coming.  After making future Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy a breakout star and earning over $70 million worldwide on a paltry $8 million budget, 28 Days Later earned...

First place is one of the most dangerous places to be during a Mario Kart match. A lead can prove temporary as the game regales everyone else some of its most powerful items, many of which will be aimed directly at the front of the pack. First place, meanwhile, is relegated to garbage weapons like bananas and green shells. In this sense, Mario Kart World is like any other iteration...

It’s been a long, protracted journey for Fortnite’s return to iPhone, as developer Epic Games fought for the right to offer consumers more options on how to spend their money in-game (and make more money in the process). For five years, the world’s biggest game disappeared from its its most popular platform in an unprecedented move that set the stage for one of gaming’s tensest legal battles. Now that it’s...

Since time immemorial, the axiom’s been that you buy a Nintendo console to play Nintendo games. Third-party games made by other publishers are worthwhile, but typically those are the sorts of experiences you can find on other platforms as well. For Nintendo’s latest hardware, the Switch 2, things are trending in a similar direction — at least for now. As reported by The Game Business, stats for early Nintendo Switch...

“Skillet’s Scheme” is a hidden island story quest line in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 3 Super. As you progress through Midas’ “A Golden Shadow” island story quest line, you’ll be asked to complete “Skillet’s Scheme,” but the game won’t tell you how to do it. However, if you do a little digging in the Quest menu, you’ll find out how to start “Skillet’s Scheme” and progress to the next stage...

28 Days Later offered a singular twist on a horror trope: Instead of the dead rising up from the graves, the “zombies” of Danny Boyle’s zombie movie would be normal humans transformed by the man-made “Rage Virus.” And they could run.  So, after years and years of Boyle and writer Alex Garland debating whether to follow the maligned 28 Weeks Later with a proper sequel from the original team —...

A new update for Elden Ring Nightreign rolled out on Thursday, adding an extra layer of challenge. The first of the game’s Everdark Sovereigns, stronger and more challenging versions of existing Nightlord bosses, is here, letting players test themselves against a familiar foe — but only for a limited time. Players can now face the Everdark Sovereign version of Adel, Baron of the Night (aka “Gaping Jaw”) in Elden Ring Nightreign....