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$35 each, shipping early next year Two of Annapurna Interactive’s best games will soon be able to sit on your shelf. And we’re not talking about a figurative shelf to describe a collection of digital video games. We’re talking about a tangible, real-life shelf. Donut CountyandGorogoaare getting physical versions on Switch thanks to iam8bit. They’ll be relatively rare, though. Only 5,000 copies will be made of each game. They’ll be relatively expensive, too....

Nintendohas droppedfour new games into the Nintendo Switch Online SNES catalog. It’s quite a surprising lineup, especially if you’re digging the Japanese games on the service. The one that I assume the most people reading this will recognize isBattletoads and Double Dragon(or justBattletoads Double Dragon; the logo isn’t clear). It’s another early Rare game for the pile. As the name implies, it crosses over Technos’ Double Dragon with Rare’s Battletoads. It was developed by Rare with very little input from Technos, but they sort of tried to find a mid-point between the two series....

You stand a ghost of a chance The newest Spotlight Tera Raids have arrived inPokemon Scarlet & Violet.While we all gear up for the 7-Star Tera Raid challenge against Greninja, Game Freak has given us a smaller event to prepare for that inevitably fierce battle. From January 20 to January 22, Drifblim and Mismagius will spawn more frequently as Tera Raid encounters. These two Ghost-Types can appear as either 4-Star or 5-Star encounters and potentially sport any Tera Type in the game....

Old-school goodness A recentGameSpotinterview with Tim Willits,Quake Championsproject lead, has confirmed that the shooterwill allow for non-champion-based deathmatch in custom games. While that isn’t the same as creating a different game mode without them, it’s still great news for old-school FPS fans. “We want to make sure we give people what they want. If you create custom game mode, you should be able to set the game up the way you want....

EA’s recently announcedNeed For Speed Shift 2: Unleashedis again a step away from the arcade style action racer. Despite the rather outlandish title, this is a racing sim more in line with Project Gotham Racing or Forza (maybe evenGran Turismo) than the more traditional Need for Speed titles. London-based Slightly Mad Studios is once again taking over for this off-shoot brand, and fans of the original Shift title should have a lot to look forward to....

After Sony announced thatHelldivers 2would reintroduce itsPSN account requirementfor PC players,dealing with the ensuing fallout, and thenbackpedaling to a surprising degree, some have blown off the steam with a joke version of aHelldivercape. Its design? The ridiculously steep negative review chart from Steam. Notably,Helldivers 2went from enjoying a ‘Mostly Positive’ review rating to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ on Steam over the course of just a few days. The community had numerous qualms with the PSN requirement, the most egregious of which is the fact that Sony’s PlayStation Network service straight-up isn’t available in a huge number of countries hostingHelldivers 2players....

Originallyreleased on Steam in January,Home Safety Hotlineputs you in the role of a phone operator helping people deal with the horrors within their own homes. Now it’s coming to consoles, and a date has been revealed along with a new trailer. As tends to be the case with all homeowner concerns, the horrors at hand tend to vary. One caller may be worried about the stability of their home, while another may be dealing with pests of an unknown origin....

Freighters inNo Man’s Skyare large space vessels that are capable of storing multiple starships and serve as a massive storage area for the wide array of resources that you run into and collect inNo Man’s Sky. Moreover, Freighters make it possible for players to own Frigates and send them on missions. Frigates are larger than starships and are primarily designed for embarking on a variety of missions including exploration, combat, and trade....

Take it from subpar to superb The path to the launch of Nintendo Switch Online was bumpy at best. Nintendo announced the program to some fanfare before adopting a hush-hush attitude about it. For months we really didn’t know what type of changes it would bring. We did know it was cheap, that it enabled cloud saves, and that NES “gems” likeIce Climberswould be coming to it, but the finer details about the program and how it would affect or improve online play were kept quiet....

Some of you may have been following a rather unique story concerningBob’s Game. Bob Pelloni is an indie developer who made headlines around the Blogocube by developing his own Nintendo DS game, completely from scratch, learning the required skills as he went along. The last time we met Bob, Nintendo had refused to license the game and he washolding a 100-day protest, locked within his room. Well, it would seem that solitary confinement has caused Bobto go beyond....

Launches with 17 exclusive games What’s old is new again, as the saying goes. At Gamescom today, Intellivision CEO Tommy Tallaricounveiled theIntellivision Amico. An old-school, family-focused, affordable device, Intellivision isn’t looking to take on the big three with the release of this console. Retailing for under $200 on Jul 11, 2025, this is more for people that wish to return to a simpler time in gaming’s history. The specifications seem to indicate just that, too....

The Matrix Contract is an interesting proposition available for allMecha Breakplayers, and it can reduce your in-game grind significantly if you don’t spend money on microtransactions. For the most part,Mecha Breakcan be enjoyed without spending a dime. While there are plenty of sentiments that suggest that the game is P2W (pay-to-win), I disagree. However, spending real-life money is always going to have a few extra benefits, and that’s where the Matrix Contract comes in....

An intriguing mix of the first two games It’s no secret that I’ve been happy about Relic’s revival of theDawn of Warseries amid the countless otherWarhammer 40,000video game adaptations materializing on a now-yearly basis. There’s so gosh darn many of ’em! And, aside from a dream sequel to the well-liked but still underratedSpace Marine, there’s nothing I want from this densely-packedproperty more than Relic-made strategy titles. This past weekend at PAX West, I was able to spend 45 minutes with the base-building, big-army ways ofDawn of War III, a sort of fusion of the first game’s design philosophy with the more recent titles’ focus on managing fewer, more powerful characters in and outside of cover....