Nintendo has finally revealed more information about Donkey Kong Bananza as part of a new Nintendo Direct. Shockingly, there’s more to this game than I initially expected. And everything that Nintendo showed off is the best argument for why this game isn’t simply a Super Mario Odyssey or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clone. The Donkey Kong Bananza Direct went down on Wednesday, diving deeper into the...

Nintendo Switch 2 owners — including multiple Split Fiction players — are reporting that their consoles are automatically disabling the rumble feature after “prolonged use.” What exactly constitutes prolonged use is up for debate, as some players have reported on Reddit that the feature was disabled after about a minute of nonstop rumbling; others say it’s disabled on and off throughout 90-minute gameplay sessions. The Nintendo Switch 2 doesn’t come...

We already suspected that New Donk City mayor Pauline might make an appearance in Donkey Kong Bananza on Switch 2, but Nintendo just confirmed in a new Nintendo Direct the one-time-damsel-in-distress will not only show up in the game, she’ll be Donkey Kong’s co-op partner in their new adventure. Pauline will also appear as Odd Rock, a small purple gemlike gremlin cursed by enemy apes VoidCo. But she’ll also be...

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...