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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...
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,...