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Hyaaah! Hello chums, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, and the result was pretty definitive. The Western design won with 69% of the vote, with some of you noting that the Japanese variant didn't even look like it belonged to the Pokémon franchise. User Kienda said "If someone showed me the Japanese case out of context, I wouldn’t even twig it was a Pokémon game". Yep, fair comment!

China's video game industry has had some huge, global hits in the past few years with games like Black Myth: Wukong and Genshin Impact. But we have yet to see equivalent success from games made in India - which has a similarly-sized population of around 1.4 billion people, along with the fifth largest economy on the planet. In fact, it's rare to see an Indian game become a big hit outside the country's own borders.

In Doom Eternal, you have to sprint, leap, and pirouette to stay alive and get the drop on the hellspawn. In Half-Life and Half-Life 2, it’s all about keeping your HEV suit charged and, especially during the many platforming and physics-based puzzle sections, watching your step and proceeding with extreme caution. In most FPS games, you have to be either precise and skillful or slow and careful. Robocop Rogue City is the total opposite. You’re a machine. You’re a tank. Grab a 12 gauge, march rig...

amiibo live on. Although we're just weeks out from learning more about the Nintendo Switch 2, new findings have surfaced ahead of the Direct broadcast - shedding light on the successor system's capabilities. As reported by The Verge, the latest filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in the US have seemingly (and perhaps unsurprisingly) confirmed Nintendo's new and hotly anticipated system will support near-field communication (NFC), which connects with its popular amiibo "toys-to-...

Apple announced the infamous 12-inch Retina MacBook a decade ago today, an experimental new Mac that was as controversial as it was revolutionary. Apple unveiled the 12-inch MacBook on March 9, 2015, at the "Spring Forward" event in San Francisco, California. The event was primarily focused on the Apple Watch, which was being fully detailed ahead of its launch the following month, so the debut of the brand-new MacBook line took many by surprise. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the new MacBook as a...

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Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

But can you grill rothe ribs?

I really like the gun that pins enemies to walls.

The beautiful game is about to get brutal.

Nintendo added an absolute gem to its Switch Online library of classic titles this week: the 1994 Game Boy game, Donkey Kong. The beloved game arrives alongside the 1995 puzzle game, Mario’s Picross. Both are available now for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, right in time for Mario Day (March 10). Donkey Kong built upon the arcade game that came before it, and features roughly 100 stages. The story should feel pretty familiar even to those who don’t have a nostalgic connection to it — Donkey...

Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired, with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimately...

They're hoping to have the case made into a class action.

"Could we make it that they’re all baseball players in a baseball league?". Gail Tilden, former Nintendo of America’s marketing boss, recently spoke to The Video Game History Foundation's Frank Cifaldi at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and one of the topics she touched upon was the small matter of launching Pokémon in the West. As you'll probably be aware, Pokémon—or Pocket Monsters, as it's known in Japan—was already something of a phenomenon in its homeland before it reached North America ...

He's all about parrying instead of weapon switching.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR, the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first announced plans to create both a live-action movie and an anime based on BRZRKR back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show. But, we’ve heard little about the projects since. In the meantime, Reeves and au...

Released in late 2023, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 was a promising but ultimately frustrating, buggy, and visually lacklustre effort from Konami. However, the good news is that improvements have been made, with version 2.0 taking aim at several key issues on console and PC. It's a relief to see, because it's a project worth salvaging - being an all-in-one package containing seven core games in the series, with some beautifully presented extras. Today, I'm focusing on the Metal Ge...

Players have blasted NetEase for a perceived lack of moderation across Marvel Rival lobbies.

Game developers get pretty short shrift on screen, mostly by not being represented at all. Filmmakers generally love to make movies about driven, uncompromising artists just like themselves, but for some reason — probably either snobbery, fear, or lack of understanding — they don’t often choose people who make video games as subjects. On the...

Roguelike ARPG Ravenswatch proved one of my favorite surprises of 2024. I hadn’t followed it too closely during early access, but was immediately captivated when I jumped in ahead of the full launch in September. Structured like a more open-world spin on Hades and with nine Diablo-style classes inspired by all manner of classic fairy tales and legends, it’s great fun solo or in co-op. But if you’re someone who loves playing with a friend, Passtech Games has just revealed the perfect new DLC - an...

Frontier's first Unlocked livestream of 2025 has unveiled what Planet Coaster 2 players can expect when Updates 3 and 4 roll out over the next couple of months.

New releases we picked up this week that belong on your reading list. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-fiction-wild-dark-shore-mystery-dark-horse-comics-let-this-one-be-a-devil-171026492.html?src=rss

The highlight of Apple deals this week is Best Buy's and Amazon's pre-order discounts on the just-announced M3 iPad Air, 11th generation iPad, and M4 MacBook Air. You'll also find great, record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2, Apple Watch Series 10, and the previous generation M2 MacBook Air. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. New iPads and MacBook Air Pre...

I’m both a lifelong superhero fan and a born and bred New Yorker, which means that as this week’s Daredevil: Born Again rolled out its version of Wilson “The Kingpin” Fisk’s rise to the office of mayor of New York City, I wasn’t thinking about what this would mean for Matt Murdock. Instead, I was...

If videogames have one universal truth, it’s that bashing zombies in the head never gets old. Whether cleaving with the fireaxe in Left 4 Dead 2, sliding into the undead and unleashing combos with a makeshift shiv in Dying Light, or hitting infected in the dome with brown sugar in Dead Rising, there’s just something about taking out these sub-human beings. One of the best to ever do it is Dead Island 2 - a sequel a decade in the making - and you can snag the game cheap right now.

Of all the new survival games that arrived in 2024, grimdark looter shooter The Forever Winter has a particularly captivating premise. In its wasteland ruled by the hulking mechs of warring megacorporations, you’re but a tiny figure scrabbling through the dust. Every inch of space or ounce of water you can scrounge might prove the difference between life and death. Fun Dog Studios has nailed the tone - but so far, it’s felt very distinctly early in the cooking process. Now, however, one of the t...

History is told by the winners, the saying goes, and that’s certainly been true with English-language coverage of the video game industry. Want coverage of the NES and PlayStation? That’s easy to find. Want coverage of the Zemmix and Dendy? Were you even aware they existed? Lewis Packwood’s book Curious Video Game Machines was written...

Welcome to Obenseuer, and yes, that does mean "open sewer".

Buckle up, ghost-hunting fans - Phasmophobia's Bleasdale House has had a terrifyingly good makeover.

Parents have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games for allegedly creating "the illusion of scarcity" and "FOMO" with its store items.

Google will have to break up its business, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a federal judge ruled last year that the company illegally abused a monopoly over the search industry. As The Washington Post and The New York Times have reported, the Justice Department reiterated in a new filing that Google will have to sell the Chrome browser. When the DOJ argued for its sale last year, it said that selling Chrome "will permanently stop Go...

The Resident Evil Outbreak successor I didn't know I needed to type about.

People don’t talk enough about how funny Bong Joon Ho’s movies are. That’s probably to be expected from one of the greatest masters of tension working in movies today — but it’s a shame, because even his tensest movies are also funny as hell.  With his latest movie, Mickey 17, director Bong has finally made...

I’m old enough to remember the first appearance of Minecraft, and it felt like a revolution. Sprawling, open, and freeform, it set the bar that the best sandbox games would live up to in the years to follow. While it took a while to reach its peak, No Man’s Sky feels similarly transformative - opening a literal universe of possibilities for you to explore, gather, and craft in. Now, bringing them both together, new space game Cubic Odyssey is looking extremely promising, and you can try a demo f...

Manor Lords developer Slavic Magic is sharing what’s in the works for the early access city builder’s future, and it’s looking suitably stacked. If you’ve been waiting for the next batch of upgrades and changes to arrive before diving back in, your prayers have been answered, because we’re getting a new map, changes to the castle planner, and some major reworks to the progression system.