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Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has signed a deal with AMD to “co-engineer silicon” — make the chips, in other words — for its “next-generation Xbox consoles.” President of Xbox Sarah Bond made the announcement in a short video posted to YouTube. In itself, this isn’t that significant. AMD has been the chip supplier for Xbox since the days of the Xbox 360 (and, indeed, for PlayStation since the PlayStation...
Supergiant Games released the next major update for Hades 2 on Tuesday — and that means the developer is on the final stage of development for Hades 2 as it marches toward its v1.0 launch. The Unseen Update, as Supergiant has named it, focuses on “expanding core combat, Guardian encounters, and character relationships,” according to the developer’s blog. It includes new fighting styles for weapons and story events, among other...
Pokémon fans who have purchased a Switch 2 are reporting that their save data from previous games isn’t transferring correctly to their new Nintendo console, leaving some players heartbroken after losing years-old saves from across Pokémon generations (per IGN). Reddit user ThatOtaku26 shared their experience with data-transfer issues in the /r/PokemonScarletViolet subreddit, claiming that they’d lost more than 1,000 hours of gameplay and 20 years’ worth of Pokémon due to...
The Switch 2 supports HDR, at least in theory. Where older tech leans on extremes, HDR captures the gradients between extremes better, which creates vivid colors while also ensuring that brighter and darker portions of the image don’t lose finer details. The reality, however, is that the settings the Switch 2 provides to users are nearly impossible to properly configure, even if you follow Nintendo’s instructions to the letter. The...
The Dead by Daylight and Five Nights at Freddy’s collaboration is officially here, bringing Springtrap into The Entity’s Realm as a playable Killer. Springtrap is now available to players as a part of the game’s latest chapter and 9.0.0 update, following the Dead by Daylight: Five Nights at Freddy’s public test beta, which went down on May 27. And to celebrate, Behaviour Interactive released a cinematic trailer showing the new...
The first time sticky notes almost killed me in Remedy Entertainment’s FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer spinoff of 2019’s Control, I laughed out loud. A slow death brought on by the overwhelming horde of memos you’re tasked with destroying is the most fitting demise in a game that leans heavily into satirizing corporate life. The fourth sticky note death elicited a small grin and more than a little annoyance, as...
The original Nintendo Switch had such a massive piracy problem, hackers were able to play new first-party games weeks before they were available to the public. Since its release in early June, hackers have wondered if the Switch 2 might have similar vulnerabilities, but early reports suggest that Nintendo has anticipated typical methods of meddling with its portable hardware. Hackers on social media sites are beginning to share photos and...
Doing well in Mario Kart World is the same as putting a target on your back when it comes to blue shells. For some, the combination of a high skill ceiling, tough NPCs, and prevalence of the spiny item has proven irksome, but it doesn’t have to be this way. You have more tools in your arsenal to deal with the blue shell than might be immediately apparent. As detailed...
Nintendo announced on its Nintendo Today app that a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct presentation will arrive on Wednesday, June 18, starting at 6 a.m. PDT / 9 a.m. EDT / 2 p.m. BST. On the Nintendo Today app, it was confirmed that the event will present “roughly 15 minutes of information about the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game.” Since announcing the title back in its April Nintendo Switch 2 Direct,...
Following Grand Theft Auto 6’s retreat into 2026, last week’s launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will likely stand as the gaming event of 2025. And at the center of that launch is Mario Kart World, an ambitious sequel to one of the best-selling games of all time from perhaps the single most revered game studio in the world: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (to give Nintendo’s game development arm its...