Nintendo Switch 2 players will be minding the speed limit in Mario Kart World after the console launches this week because the game will ship without the series’ notoriously fast engine class. As reported by Rolling Stone, the aggressively brisk mode won’t be making a return for Mario Kart World, though Nintendo isn’t ruling out the possibility in a future update. Mario Kart 8 initially shipped without 200cc, only to...

Wylder’s Remembrance quests in Elden Ring Nightreign don’t just give you more context to Wylder as a character — they also provide you with some of his best relics. Completing these quests involves spelunking in mines and exploring forsaken cities, but you can tackle them alongside your normal expeditions against the Nightlords. Here’s our in-progress Wylder Remembrance quest walkthrough for Elden Ring Nightreign, explaining how to start Wylder’s Remembrance quest...

The success of Dan Trachtenberg’s 2022 Predator movie Prey seems to have been a wake-up call for 20th Century Studios, a reminder both that there was still life in the franchise, and that approaching it in a way audiences had never seen before could pay off. The studio effectively handed the franchise over to Trachtenberg, who co-wrote and co-directed the animated movie Predator: Killer of Killers, hitting Hulu on June...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This seems to have been Nintendo’s watchword for the Switch 2 — and not just in terms of the design of this iterative sequel to the Switch, a runaway success that’s likely to become Nintendo’s biggest seller ever. When it comes to marketing and promotion, too, Nintendo seems determined to follow the Switch playbook to the letter, even to the extent that the...

If you want to get new video game hardware at launch, you typically need a pre-order. Historically, most major brick and mortar retailers only get a set number of pre-orders and a much smaller number of first-come, first-serve stock that they can sell to walk-ins. When the PS5 was released, for example, many GameStops only got a handful of them to sell outside of pre-orders. For the Switch 2, however,...