Dustland Delivery plays like a funny, tough, post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail

Road trips with just two people always have their awkward silences. In Dustland Delivery, my character, a sharpshooter, has tried to break the ice with the blacksmith he hired a few towns back, with only intermittent success. Remember that bodyguard, the one I unsuccessfully tried to flirt with at that bar?...

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Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry

This morning's announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased the salience of President Trump's proposed wide-reaching import tariffs for millions of American Nintendo fans. Additionally, the Entertainment Software Association—a lobbying group that represents the game...

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Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed indefinitely amid the financial uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump's recent announcement of massive tariffs on most US trading partners. "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess...

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Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray-tracing

In the wake of the Switch 2 reveal, neither Nintendo nor Nvidia has gone into any detail at all about the exact chip inside the upcoming handheld—technically, we are still not sure what Arm CPU architecture or what GPU architecture it uses, how much RAM we can expect it to have, how fast that memory will be,...

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Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too

The Nintendo Switch 2 could be considered the most direct "sequel" to a Nintendo console that the company has ever made. The lineage is right there in the name, with Nintendo simply appending the number "2" onto the name of its incredibly successful previous console for the first time in its history. Nintendo's...

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A look at the Switch 2’s initial games, both familiar and what-the-heck

I don't think anybody outside Nintendo or FromSoftware was expecting a spiritual successor to Bloodborne to be one of the titles announced at the Nintendo Switch 2's launch today. Not just "playable"...

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Nintendo offers a detailed look at Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch

In a highly anticipated Nintendo Direct presentation this morning, the company revealed new information about the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and software ahead of a newly announced June 5, 2025, release...

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What we’re expecting from Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement Wednesday

With its planned Switch 2 Direct presentation scheduled for Wednesday morning, Nintendo is set to finally fully pull back the curtain on a console we've been speculating about for years now. We'll have...

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The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece

In 1982, while most game developers were busy with space invaders and maze ghosts, Bill Williams created something far more profound: a game about swimming upstream against impossible odds. Salmon Run for the Atari 800 served as a powerful metaphor for life itself, one that resonates even more deeply when you...

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Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

Satisfactory starts out as a game you play, then becomes a way you think. The only way I have been able to keep the ridiculous factory simulation from eating an even-more-unhealthy amount of my time was the game's keyboard-and-mouse dependency. But the work, it has found me—on my couch, on a trip, wherever one...

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What to make of Nintendo’s mention of new “Switch 2 Edition games”

When Nintendo finally officially revealed the Switch 2 in January, one of our major unanswered questions concerned whether games designed for the original Switch would see some form of visual or performance enhancement when running on the backward-compatible Switch 2. Now, Nintendo-watchers are pointing to a...

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Gran Turismo 7 gets an NPC upgrade with improved GT Sophy AI

In 2022, a team of AI researchers at Sony sat down and made an AI agent that was nearly unbeatable at the racing game Gran Turismo 7. More than just car control, the agent, called GT Sophy, had to also learn racing tactics and strategies—and even etiquette. Up against the world's best human players, Sophy beat...

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Report: Discord partners with JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs for a 2025 IPO

As previously rumored, Discord, a popular communications platform, is working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to plan an IPO as soon as this year, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. The report cites people familiar with the matter and notes that more advisors may come on board as the talks progress. This...

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Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat, all but demanding replays

I played a lot of Obsidian's Avowed after it came out. I appreciate that the game offers both a whole lot of world-building lore if you want it, but also the ability to skip it all if you want to get back to grimoires, guns, and scarfing food while dodging attacks. But all those gods and races and islands must...

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Nintendo’s new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained

Switch players who buy their games on physical cards are used to being able to share those games with other players simply by handing them the card. Now, Nintendo is planning a process to allow players to share their digital Switch purchases in a similar way. The new "virtual game card" system—which Nintendo...

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