Fortnite officially arrives on the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, according to Epic Games. The optimized release comes complete with visual enhancements, technical improvements, and fresh control options that take advantage of the new hardware. Nintendo’s new Joy-Con 2 controllers introduce mouse-style controls, and the feature will be enabled on Fortnite on June 7 with patch 36.00. Players will be able to use one or both Joy-Con 2 controllers...
Metaphor: ReFantazio, the 2024 massive RPG hit made by Studio Zero and published by Atlus, sailed from critical acclaim to Game Awards glory to a marquee debut on Xbox Game Pass. The game’s legs are a testament to Katsura Hashino, Shigenori Soejima, and Shoji Meguro – the same folks responsible for the more recent Persona games – who elevated Metaphor into a work of art. Metaphor was born from the...
For as long as mankind has gazed up at the stars, it has been seized by a dream: to journey out there, into the void, to stand eye-to-eye with God, to slip the surly bonds of Earth, venture into space, and establish responsible local government.No Man's Sky's latest in a frankly unbelievable line of updates is called Beacon, and it promises to let you become Overseer—or space mayor—of "up to...
Marvel released a new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Wednesday. And, sure, you can now buy tickets ahead of its July 25 release. But what’s more important than all that? Popcorn buckets, baby — especially when they give us our best look a character yet. Like many recent blockbusters, The Fantastic Four will be receiving a commemorative popcorn bucket in the shape of Galactus’ head. “The universe’s...
We recently sat down with both CD Projekt Red and Epic to find out a little bit more about that, well, epic Witcher 4 tech demo and what the new Unreal Engine 5.6 brings to game development. The main takeaway is that their collaboration won't just make Witcher 4 an incredible open-world experience. It looks like it will help other developers literally up their game when it comes to open-world...
Elden Ring Nightreign may have gotten off to a bumpy start with mostly Mixed reviews on Steam at launch, but it's since crawled out of that rut with an impressive first major update that has helped it on its way to a Mostly Positive overall rating. And now there's even more to celebrate as FromSoftware announces that 3.5 million copies of Nightreign have been sold."On the dawn of the fifth...
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...