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Few consoles can match the Super Nintendo’s library, and Nintendo Classics, part of Nintendo Switch Online, currently offers a healthy selection of 77 of its games. Unfortunately, the console’s best third-party titles are mostly missing. You won’t find Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, or Street Fighter 2 Turbo on the service. The omission hardly matters,...
M. Night Shyamalan has never stopped making movies. But his recent work has lived in the shadow of the films that made him one of Hollywood’s best-known directors. After The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, he made a string of increasingly divisive projects. His newer thrillers have struggled to match the same cultural reach. Old...
Cyberpunk 2077 mods were downloaded 2.8 million times in a single day on mod.io. Many players welcomed the official mod support and rushed to download mods. On October 22, CD Projekt RED returned to Cyberpunk 2077 with the large 2.5 update. It added content in the style of the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, new features...
It’s hard to believe how long ago it feels, but 2025 turned out to be an unusually crowded year for new games. Kirby Air Ride finally received a sequel after more than twenty years. Battlefield 6 turned out to be genuinely great. Blue Prince reinvented what a puzzle game could be. And Clair Obscur: Expedition...
Among Diablo devotees (the people who follow Blizzard’s grim action RPGs, not the residents of hell), one entry is held up as the one to admire: Diablo 2. Few people argue the point. The 2000 release is the series at its bleakest and most punishing, yet it still feels vast. It has remarkable staying power...
A Caltech student and security researcher who goes by pepsipu says they used artificial intelligence to hack the Nintendo Switch 2. It is not a full kernel-level exploit. It is a “tethered jailbreak,” which stays active only until the device is rebooted. Using this firmware 23.0.1 bypass, pepsipu modified Mario Kart World and made backups...
Inde Navarrette (“Obsession”) has expressed interest in joining the upcoming Call of Duty adaptation. A longtime fan of the original video game series, the actress said she would gladly take on any role in the film. If someone called me and said, “There’s a car waiting outside. You need to go.” Absolutely. I’m a huge...
The year now has a clear front-runner. Critics have weighed in on Phantom Blade Zero, the Wuxia-inspired action title from S-Game, and their verdicts place it among the best-reviewed releases of 2026. That standing could also strengthen its case for a nomination at the Game Awards in December. Your browser does not support the video...
Researchers have described a technology that can already transmit several smells, and it may bring a decades-old Hideo Kojima idea closer to reality. As technology advances, ideas that once seemed hard to imagine are becoming possible. Players recently had a reason to recall one of Kojima’s dreams, which he described on social media back in...
Games like Pragmata, 007 First Light, Beast of Reincarnation, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword have kept me asking one question through 2026: what makes an action game good? Is it the thrill of pulling off spectacular feats on screen? Is it grinding through punishing fights against enemies that seem mathematically unbeatable? Or is it...
