It’s been nearly 30 years since Capcom popularized tag-based fighting games with X-Men vs. Street Fighter — and to a lesser extent, SNK with Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle. But now, the subgenre appears to be thriving in the vacuum left by Capcom itself, which hasn’t delivered a new tag-based fighting game since 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. Even still, this month alone, two major new tag-based fighting games were announced:...

Stick drift comes for everyone, but Nintendo Switch hardware has a reputation for being particularly prone to failure. Naturally, everyone is wondering if the Nintendo Switch 2 and its new Joy-Con controller is any better than its predecessor. News that at least one person purchased a brand new Switch 2 that appeared to come out of the box with stick drift isn’t helping paranoia around drift. So, what’s actually going...

The Forsaken Fortress is the first area (arguably a dungeon on a technicality, but not really) you’ll go to in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. For many, it’s a terrible memory. You’re forced to use stealth with no actual weapon in hand, making it a painful process if you don’t know what to do and where to go. Luckily for you, I’ve replayed The Wind Waker to help...

Marathon isn’t going to be the next Concord, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Studio Business Group CEO Hermen Hulst. In a recent “fireside chat” with investors, Hulst admitted that Concord fell short of Sony’s expectations, but added that the publisher had learned some valuable lessons in the wake of the hero shooter’s disastrous August 2024 launch and subsequent cancellation. After praising the success of Helldivers 2, Hulst conceded that the...

The creative team behind IO Interactive’s MindsEye isn’t having a good week. A weird pre-launch period has led to a messy, broken game; the PlayStation store has even issued refunds to some players who decided to bite the bullet and check the game out. Developers at Build a Rocket Boy are “heartbroken that not every player was able to experience the game as we intended,” and have shared a plan...

Sony is monitoring the Nintendo Switch 2 as a competitive console, but because of the PlayStation 5’s “differentiated strategy,” they’re not too worried. In a newly published Game & Network Services Segment Fireside Chat video, Hideaki Nishino, Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO, addressed concerns that Nintendo’s positive and developing relationships with third-party developers would lead to “tougher competition” from Nintendo in the coming years. Nishino dismissed any concern and...

For every massive success Nintendo releases, there’s an oddball that confuses everyone. In 2017, that was the two-player party game 1-2 Switch, a collection of accessible mini-games. Think Wii Sports, but without the cutesy Miis, or Mario Party without the brand recognition. Players would be prompted to do anything from milking digital cows, to inflating fake balloons as fast as possible. The casual party game sold a few million copies,...

Mario Kart World boasted many new exciting features when it was released alongside the Switch 2 on June 5, including a massive main roster totaling 50 playable characters. Of these, 24 are main characters and 26 are detailed as NPC racers, with main characters having access to a slew of quirky, cute, and badass outfits, while NPCs do not. However, not all of the main characters have an equal number...

Under the leadership of the late, great Satoru Iwata, Nintendo shunned the technology arms race of Sony, Microsoft, and the rest of the video game business, and pursued a series of wild experiments that worked out brilliantly (Wii, DS) more often than not (Wii U). Iwata’s final innovation, realized after his untimely death, was to combine the company’s handheld and home console businesses into a single device — 2017’s Switch....

Fix the broken battery charge indicator on your Switch 2, and you won’t have to worry so much about battery life anymore — because that worry might not be informed by accurate readouts. As of this writing, the Nintendo Switch 2 suffers from a bug that alters its battery life information, resulting in an empty battery sign even if the console still has a few hours of playtime left before...