Quick Links Date Everythingmight as well have been called ‘Date Anything’, because you really can date anything in this game! Well, as long as you can find it in your house. Like right now - are you sitting at a computer desk right now? Well in Date Everything, you can romance a computer desk. Dasha is a strong woman who is also a computer desk, and she has plenty of experience in the ways of love - experience that she’s eager to pass on to you....

Elden Ring, even before it came out, was a beloved game. It became a cultural cornerstone in gaming, enough to have become a larger series in its own right, far outpacing the Dark Souls games that came as its foundations. Elden Ring has now stretched to has its own massive expansion, and now even a spin-off in the form ofElden Ring Nightreign. Nightreign is a very different game than the one it spun-off from, featuring a much larger emphasis on cooperative play and throwing some roguelike elements into the mix, too....

The Valve that once crammed into an overstuffed Los Angeles Convention Centre with other developers at E3 2003, fresh-faced and ready to announce its new game, isa relic of the past. Steam fills its coffers enough now that it can do things its own way, leading to the infamous ‘moving desks’ mentality that sees projects cancelled on a whim, or the fact that it announces new games with as much fanfare as Barney ‘about that beer I owe ya’ Calhoun....

Rumors abouta potential $1,000 Death Star Lego sethave been swirling since last year, and even though there has still been no official confirmation that it really exists, the latest update has left potential customers disappointed. The set’s supposed measurements have started to do the rounds, and even though it’s big, they suggest that the Death Star won’t be a complete sphere. The initial leak suggesting the Death Star set might not be spherical wasshared by maxbautdeand has since been corroborated by two more Lego leakers, asshared by Clay_Bricks on the Legoleak subreddit....

Difficulty and difficulty settings have been contentious issues withLies of Psince before the game even launched. As far back as 2023,the game’s director Ji-won Choitold me that “We believe Soulslike games shouldn’t have difficulty options. " However, inOverture, the team added them,much to the dismay of Soulslike purists. Last week, Choi hinted thatmore balance adjustments could be comingto the game, saying, “We are reviewing various adjustments, including difficulty reduction.” Now it looks like this has come to pass....

Summary So much has gone wrong during the endgame build toMarathon, it’s hard to believe just how much of it has happened within the past two months. Between the unclear pricing and stolen art, reports thatpaid marketing for the game has been pulledhave resulted in even the most optimistic Marathon hopefuls admitting defeat. The latest nail in the potential Marathon coffin was hammered in last weekend when reports emerged claiming all paid marketing for the game had been canceled....

TheMario Kart Worldcommunity is undergoing somewhat of a schism over a controversial update to the game’s online modes. Essentially, a recent update changed the way random course selection works, meaning you can now wind up racing on an intermission track rather than a traditional three-lap race on a normal track. While some people enjoy the intermission tracks—roads that connect one track to another in the open world—others despise them, saying they’re nothing more than straight roads that connect tracks together and are not courses worth racing....

Monster Hunter Worldwas a behemoth when it launched in 2018. Skyrocketing to become Capcom’s most successful game ever, there was no stopping it, especially after its PC release and Iceborne expansion. It’s easily one of the most beloved games of all time. However, despite topping the sales of World, Monster Hunter Wilds has been having a rough time. Capcom’s strategy of launching the game on all platforms on one day worked out, as the player count and salesreached new heights for Capcom....

Earlier this month, Remedy Entertainment expanded on its connected survivor horror world with theLeft 4 Dead-style co-op shooterFBC: Firebreak, but it hasn’t been the runaway success that the studio was no doubt hoping for. Opening to ‘Mixed’ reviews on Steam, it’s already being outpaced by Call of Duty 2,Back 4 Blood, and even Half-Life 2: Deathmatch witha 24-hour peak of just 245 players. Granted, the game launched on PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass, but so didRematch, which hit much higher figures....

Quick Links Today is the ninth anniversary of the release ofStranger ThingsSeason 1 on Netflix. It’s hard to believe it’s been less than a decade since the series first premiered, taking the streaming service to heights it never could have imagined. While the company had original hits before – Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards – Stranger Things took over the mainstream in a way nothing else from Netflix had done before – or since....

Console prices are a real point of contention as pretty much all of them have reached a point where they’re unaffordable for large groups of gamers who would otherwise buy them, no questions asked. EvenNintendocouldn’t avoid the rising prices when determining the MSRP of theSwitch 2, and Nintendo’s president has addressed concerns that the cost has cut off younger gamers. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about younger Nintendo fans missing out on the Switch 2 due to its high price at a recent shareholders meeting (viaNintendo Everything)....

Kirby Air Riderswas one ofNintendo’s most surprising announcements in recent memory. A sequel to a cult classicGameCubegame,Air Riders reveal, which included the news that it was being directed by Super Smash Bros. legend, and the first game’s original director, Masahiro Sakurai, sent fans into raptures. Now, it has been claimed that the reason Nintendo greenlit Kirby Air Riders was to ensure that Sakurai would come back to direct the Switch 2 version of Super Smash Bros, which may not have even entered pre-production yet....

Summary People who are lucky enough to have gotten their hands on theNintendo Switch 2early have confirmed that Miis are still around, and they now have “styles” instead of genders. Despitebeing the face of Nintendo for a good while following the launch of the Nintendo Wii, Miis haven’t really been as much of a big deal over the past few console generations.The Switch basically did away with them outside of potentially having them as your avatar,and they’ve appeared in fewer games over the last few years....