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Marvel Rivals season 2 adds Emma Frost and Ultron as the Hellfire Gala becomes a battleground
news Lots of other characters have cool new skins too
Analysts attribute Nintendo's eye-watering Switch 2 pricing spread to tariffs, market chaos, rising costs, and more: "Nintendo is charging this price because they feel they can and that people will pay"
News How much can we afford?
"Drop the price": Nintendo's Treehouse stream overshadowed by players noisily protesting the Switch 2's hefty cost
news I can't remember the last time I saw gamers this united
As Nintendo's new games swell to at least $80, players are starting to get worried that Rockstar's about to take its shot at a $100 GTA 6
news Grand Theft Nintendo
Japan will have the option of a Japanese-only Switch 2 for $110 less, which looks extra nice thanks to Trump's new 46% tariffs
news In the US, the Switch 2 costs 50% more than the original Switch did at launch
There are over 10,000 Switch games to make compatible for the Switch 2, and Nintendo is busy checking all of them
News That's a lot of games to inspect
If Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and the Switch 2 release date weren’t enough for you, sicko, prepare for 7 hours of new gameplay with Nintendo Treehouse streams starting tomorrow
news We're going to see a lot of games
Deltarune is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 at launch, all but confirming the Chapter 3 and 4 release window
News Finally, it's coming
Nintendo Switch 2 will launch with Welcome Tour, Nintendo's answer to Astro's Playroom, but you'll have to pay for it
News Paying for the user manual
Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman, and many more are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, proving it's a much more powerful console than the original Switch
news We never thought we'd see the day
The Nintendo Switch 2's mysterious C button is an in-built Nintendo Discord
News It even has a streaming function
Forget Mario Kart World, Kirby Air Riders returns after 20 years, with Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai back at the helm
news We knew he was up to something
Xbox is bringing more of its games to rival platforms is "a big benefit that Nintendo didn't really have in the last generation" that the Switch 2 will have, says ex-marketing lead
News Finally, John Halo on a Nintendo
Super Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai has a friend in Undertale developer Toby Fox - all because of how deeply their posts are read into
News Besties
New Elden Ring Nightreign trailer is all about the archer class that wasn't in the beta, and this might be the first FromSoftware game where bows don't suck
news Finally, a usable bow
"Is this going to be Valheim with party hats?": RuneScape: Dragonwilds devs know survival games are competitive and focus on "things that make us unique" in a tree-punching genre
news Come for the survival, stay for the lore
PlayStation needs to "reconsider" its push for "cutting-edge graphics" and "change our way of thinking" says former Sony boss
news More games made with worse graphics please
Hideo Kojima says the fact that people are still playing Death Stranding 5 years later is "what makes me happiest," but I'm sure the 20 million players don't hurt
News I'm sure we'll still be playing five years from now
GTA 3 on the Sega Dreamcast now has a 60fps "performance mode," but it makes the game almost unplayable
news 60fps has been achieved, but at what cost?
Dread it, run from it, the Palworld dating sim is real – and Pocketpair is tripling down with a Steam page starring "Chillet's little sister" and "Yandere Splatterina"
news "Good idea? Bad idea? Who cares! SOMEONE WILL BE HAPPY!"
Death Stranding surpasses 20 million players amid spike of Steam users presumably trying to finish it before the sequel
News I've still got some deliveries to make...
Death Stranding 2 inches ever closer to completion as Hideo Kojima says sound mixing is finally finished just 3 months before release
News It took 3 years
As Krafton irons out the InZoi bugs, devs "recommend avoiding repeated remarriage and, if necessary, proceeding only when there are no children involved"
News I don't know why the kids make a difference, but they do
