Gravid bowfins in Monster Hunter Wilds are aquatic life you’ll want to catch as part of a quest chain. Specifically, you’ll fish for them in “Fishing for Flavor,” a quest given to you by Kanya at the Scarlet Forest base camp. This is the third of her side missions after catching your first fish and then a goldenfish. Our Monster Hunter Wilds guide will tell you where to find gravid...
When the Switch 2 arrives on June 5, it will do so with updated Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack offerings featuring GameCube titles as part of the service’s classics library, providing access to some hard-to-find and/or prohibitively expensive games in the process. The initial GameCube offerings include all-time greats The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Soulcalibur 2, and F-Zero GX, but things get really interesting when you peruse...
Sabrina Carpenter, the Grammy-award winning musical artist, is coming to Fortnite, going by a series of datamines and official teasers. After a series of leaks leading up until the new Fortnite Festival season, we have the first tease of the next artist being Sabrina Carpenter — and thanks to the aforementioned datamines, we have an idea of what custom skins, accessories, and jam tracks are coming, too. Here’s when Sabrina...
The Nintendo Switch 2 is launching on June 5. Pre-orders were initially going live on Wednesday, April 9, but those plans have been postponed due to Nintendo assessing the “potential impact of tariffs.” A new pre-order date will be shared at a later time. The original article follows below. While I wish to exist in a world where you could easily click “buy” and be guaranteed a console come launch...
Nintendo has delayed pre-orders in the United States for the Switch 2 in response to sweeping new tariffs outlined by the Trump administration earlier this week. Pre-orders were scheduled to begin on April 9, but have been delayed indefinitely, Nintendo said Friday. Switch 2’s release date in the U.S. is still set for June 5. “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in...
Following the new tariffs instated by the Trump administration, the original April 9 pre-order date for the Nintendo Switch 2 has been postponed. The new pre-order day hasn’t been set, and will be shared by Nintendo at a later date. Its June 5 release date is unchanged. The original article follows below. While it’s possible that Nintendo has done everything in its power to ensure that it can meet demand,...
After many months, if not years, of leaks and speculation, it’s finally official: Nintendo has announced and fully revealed its next console. It’s called Nintendo Switch 2, and as the name implies, it’s a very similar design to the Switch — a hybrid handheld console with detachable controllers that can be connected to a TV via a dock. While it may seem an obvious move, the iterative system is an...
All of DC Comics’ Absolute titles have been swinging for the fences. The line, featuring classic characters reinvented for a darker universe than the main DC timeline, has been packed with stellar work. This past Wednesday, though, the final pages (or… page?) of Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 took things to a whole new level. Writer Deniz Camp and artist Javier Rodríguez wrapped their series launch with an art trick that...
Chengnan An, the lead game designer on Honkai: Star Rail, has worked at parent studio Hoyoverse for a little over nine years, first on Honkai Impact 3rd, and then on the current sci-fi RPG. That means An has been present for much of the company’s worldwide meteoric rise; Honkai Impact 3rd (2016) was an early hit with international audiences that would soon be eclipsed by Genshin Impact (2020). And yet...
Notre Dame is cleaner than we’ve ever seen it before. That’s what stood out to Maxime Durand, Ubisoft’s resident historian, when he saw photos of the newly restored nave. “It’s the first time that we can actually see the full monument with this splendor,” he told Polygon. “Since the industrial revolution, the air pollution has affected the color of any landmark in Europe, and Notre Dame was part of that....