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Bungie working on PvP-focused project for “a new franchise”

Home / Software & Gaming / Bungie working on PvP-focused project for “a new franchise” Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Software & Gaming We’ve known for a while now that Bungie is preparing a new IP, which is due to launch sometime in the next four years. Now, Bungie has revealed a bit more about… Read more

Ubisoft will host E3 showcase on 12th June

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last week, the ESA finally began making some of its plans for E3 2021 official announcing press conferences and appearances from a number of large publishers. Now, we are starting to get date and times for when to tune in, with Ubisoft being the… Read more

Days Gone PC features and improvements announced, releasing on May 18th

Home / Software & Gaming / Days Gone PC features and improvements announced, releasing on May 18th Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Software & Gaming We’ve known for a while now that Days Gone is the next major PS4 console exclusive to be coming to PC. Now, we have a date and our first look… Read more

Apex Legends now has more than 100 million players

Battle royale shooter Apex Legends now has more than 100 million unique players globally, EA and Respawn announced on Wednesday. The free-to-play game surpassed the big milestone just over two years after its February 2019 launch. Apex Legends’ success is just the latest indication that free-to-play battle royale shooters remain very popular, despite the genre… Read more

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ soundtrack has seven CDs’ worth of island vibes

You can put down your Switch, you can retire from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but you can never quite leave the island behind. Now, thanks to a new a multi-CD imported soundtrack for the game, you won’t have to. With seven — yes, seven — compact discs of Animal Crossing music, you can quite literally… Read more

Nintendo’s latest batch of Switch indie games includes Fez and a sequel to Oxenfree

Nintendo broadcast its latest “Indie World Showcase” today, and the 20-minute event was pretty packed full of announcements for upcoming Switch games. There’s a good amount of variety, too: everything from fantastical skateboarding worlds to procedurally generated road trips to a puzzle classic that’s available later today. If you missed out on the presentation, here… Read more

Nintendo is releasing a bright blue Switch Lite in May

Nintendo has announced a new color for its portable-only Switch Lite. The new hue is “blue,” which looks pretty close to the Game Boy’s “pocket blue” color variant. The new color could also be inspired by Pantone’s decision to name “classic blue” the Color of the Year for 2020. Blue joins the other four variants… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Guitar Hero Controller Is Ready to Rock

Home News (Image credit: Arlan Prado) We’ve seen it time and time again—one maker’s old controller is another maker’s Raspberry Pi project. Such is the case with Arlan Prado‘s awesome Raspberry Pi Pico controlled Guitar Hero guitar! To pull this rockin’ project off, Prado modified an old Nintendo Wii Guitar Hero controller. In his upgrade,… Read more

Pac-Man 99 is a new battle royale game for the Switch

Nintendo has announced Pac-Man 99, a new multiplayer game that’ll be included with its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service. Like Tetris 99 and the recently departed Super Mario Bros. 35, the game pits dozens of players against each other in a battle royale-style fight to the end. The game looks similar to the classic arcade… Read more

The creator of Threes is back with a game about slaying giant beasts

Threes designer Asher Vollmer is launching a new studio, Vodeo Games, and announced the company’s first game, a turn-based adventure called Beast Breaker. Beast Breaker stars Skipper, a tiny mouse warrior fighting mosaic monsters. The game relies on tactical choices via pinball-like mechanics; players can also craft equipment to assist them on their journey. It’s… Read more

E3 2021 Will Be All-Digital and Free of Charge

Home News (Image credit: Electronic Software Association) E3 2021 will be an all-digital event. The Electronic Software Association has announced that this year’s event, which will be free of charge, will take place from June 12 to June 15. Last year, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still ongoing. For… Read more

E3 is going digital this summer, will return in person next year

E3 2021 will take place June 12th-15th this year as a free, “reimagined, all-virtual” event, the Entertainment Software Association announced today. Organizers announced that the lineup includes companies such as Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, and Warner Bros. Games. Sony is notably missing from that list so far. E3, gaming’s biggest annual conference… Read more

This Nintendo Switch is so big you can actually read the text in Skyrim

Nintendo has been rumored to be working on a bigger Switch for a while now, which reportedly could show up later in 2021. But YouTuber Michael Pick isn’t waiting around for a new model from Nintendo — he’s gone and built his own bigger Switch. Much bigger, as it turns out: almost six feet wide,… Read more

8BitDo now makes the best Switch pro controller

Nintendo’s official Pro Controller for the Switch is generally a pretty useful accessory, but it has its problems: the D-pad is unreliable, and it doesn’t really offer any “pro-level” functionality. 8BitDo’s latest controller improves on both of those issues while coming in at a lower price. The 8BitDo Pro 2 is an upgraded version of… Read more

A Sealed Super Mario Game Sold for $660,000

Home News (Image credit: Nintendo) We all buy things that we never unpack. Normally, we pass those items to someone who might need them. But some of us are smart enough not to do so and get rich instead. This is exactly what occurred to a copy of a Super Mario game titled ‘Super Mario… Read more