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Kill the Tornado is exactly as goofy as it sounds (and more challenging than you think).

Full of beautiful pixels and probably perfect for speedrunners.

Fortnite's all-new Star Wars season, Galactic Battle, will launch on 2nd May, 2025.

Nintendo surprised us with a little blast from the past this weekend, uploading a 34-year-old Super Nintendo commercial featuring Paul Rudd to its YouTube channel — and it’s released a sequel for the Nintendo Switch 2. Rudd appears in the Switch 2 promo wearing the same outfit he wore back in 1991, but this time he’s playing Mario Kart World with some celebrity friends over the new GameChat social feature. It’s a charming callback to the original SNES ad, which itself is deliciously ‘90s and a r...

Pocketpair has responded to Nintendo's legal action by asserting the patents The Pokémon Company believes Pocketpair has contravened are invalid due to other games that came before it, including Ark: Survival Evolved, Tomb Raider, and even Nintendo's own Legend of Zelda series.

Gloomhaven: Second Edition is in limbo thanks to tariffs and more board games could follow

As Bungie prepares for the revival of Marathon in a new-look form for 2025, another of its classic PC games sits almost forgotten. Myth: The Fallen Lords and its sequel Myth 2: Soulblighter were the studio’s first foray into the strategy game genre, and stood tall among the likes of Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, and Starcraft as two of the best RTS games of the era. Yet as the developer moved on to Halo and Destiny, the Myth games fell into the background - but a small group of dedicated ...

REPO's dev team needs you to respect their boundaries—on lobby size

No need to be mad. Let's farm monsters.

FF14 7.2 has been a very dance-driven patch for the MMORPG. The newest set of fights for the FF14 Dawntrail raid, the Arcadion, kicks off with a stylish showdown against a disco-loving Viera, Dancing Green. Step into the latest unreal trial, meanwhile, and you’ll face off with Suzaku in Hells’ Kier - a battle best known for its ‘DDR intermission’ that demands all players match a series of directional inputs akin to the classic Dance Dance Revolution games. Yet despite this trend, composer Masayo...

It's not long until we finally get our hands on Clair Obscur Expedition 33, the surrealistic turn-based RPG from Sandfall Interactive. If you've been counting down the days until you can begin exploring its gorgeous fantasy world, but haven't secured your pre-order yet, Fanatical is offering it at a lower price than we've seen from any other retailer. Right now, you can get 20% off the Standard and Deluxe Edition pre-orders of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Forever with you; never with us. True love lasts forever – and so do some games. Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You, the legendary dating sim from 1995, is hooking up with Switch next month to celebrate 30 years on the scene. Immaculately presented but bewilderingly complex, TokiMemo is a foundational piece of video game history that defined a whole genre, along with the increasingly universal mechanics of video game love. But for most players outside Japan, it fires nostalgia for someone else’...

Here at Polygon, we aren’t strangers to the video game notebook. Handwritten notes can create a physical place that can serve as a guide and aid in our own game experiences. They can also enhance enjoyment of a game. Our staff has created assassination bullet journals and argued that taking notes can make games more...

One of the most ambitious titles lined up for the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077 has been showcased via work-in-progress code seen at the console's launch tour. Digital Foundry had the chance to go hands-on at the recent London event and while our initial impressions are on the record, many questions remained unanswered. Is the port using Nvidia DLSS? CDPR has now confirmed that the answer is yes, making this the first known title to use the machine learning-bas...

Nintendo of America hasn't just uploaded its classic 1991 SNES TV advert to make you nostalgic - it's also recreated it entirely for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025, complete with the original leading man, Paul Rudd.

Amazon is currently having another excellent sale on illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings, and other books penned by J.R.R. Tolkien. Through April 28, you can save up to 75% on select editions of Middle-earth fiction, with many items like The Hobbit Illustrated Edition, and The Fellowship of the Ring Collector’s Edition on...

While some might be scouring for the next drop of Half-Life 3 news, I’ve moved on. Valve’s defining, epochal sci-fi FPS may one day return, but Abiotic Factor is already delivering what I actually want from a scientific fight for my life against mysterious, alien threats. Drawing clear inspirations from the tales of Gordon Freeman, the co-op survival game is preparing to hit 1.0 in the summer - but its price will be increasing before then, developer Deep Field Games confirms, so take this last c...

Deep sea DIY. Australian developer Winterwire Games has revealed that its deep sea puzzle platformer Power Sink will be launching on the Nintendo Switch on 22nd May 2025 for $14.99 USD / $22.95 AUD / £12.79 / €14,79. We must admit that when we first caught the trailer above, we immediately thought it looked like a cute platforming take on Bioshock. Naturally, there are no Plasmids or Splicers hanging about, but the main character almost certainly looks similar to the Big Daddy.

Marvel Rivals is doomed to forever be compared to Overwatch. It’s a team-based shooter with heroes, and some of those heroes happen to have a lot in common with the ones in Overwatch. NetEase has never directly said Blizzard’s game was an inspiration, but a now-removed line in Marvel Rivals’ code confirms that someone on...

Three seasons, three launches. Third’s the charm for this quirky MMO looter-shooter?

Capcom is once again warning that players cheating on Monster Hunter Wilds will find some sections "unplayable" if they persist in using unsanctioned mods.

Issue #23 - April 2025. Here we are, everyone. We're living in a post-Switch 2 release-date reveal world! And it's...oof, it's a lot! Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox, our monthly delve into correspondences of you lovely lot. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings.

Mercifully minus the balance changes from the original English release

Unlike most looter shooters, The Forever Winter isn’t a traditional power fantasy. Trapped between two giant megacorporations locked in endless mech warfare that’s turned the world into an ashen battlefield, you and your friends are little more than rats scrabbling in the dust to survive. The new April update, however, offers a chance to fight back. Befriend the latest quest giver to arrive in town, and find enough allies to help you out, and you might finally get your hands on a weapon capable ...

Launching the same day as Last Epoch Season 2, just a few days on from the mammoth Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt update, and with Diablo 4 Season 8 imminent, you might have feared for the latest Torchlight Infinite season. The free Steam game is still proving itself a worthwhile contender, however; while it might not have climbed to quite the mammoth heights of its rivals, the new city-building Sandlord mechanic and a dark twist on hero Thea has brought players flocking back to the Diablo-sty...

The cost of videogames will always be a hot topic. As prices seem to increase exponentially - the base edition of GTA 6 is rumored to run you  $100 - and microtransactions continue to cause backlash in live-service titles, striking the balance is becoming a fine art. Jagex's pricing structure has come under fire before, with a recent survey fanning the flames. So, when Runescape Dragonwilds launched in early access as a premium, one-time purchase priced at $29.99 / £25.99, it raised some eyebrow...

Pik your winner. Hello everyone – welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Survival Kids for the Game Boy Color in celebration of the new Switch 2 release from publisher Konami. In the end, although North America's variant is certainly nice enough, Europe and Japan won the day confidently with 71% of the vote.

The final floor, a grisly boss and a public server browser

Super together! Nintendo has gone all out for its first Western Switch 2 commercial, bringing back actor Paul Rudd to showcase the console's new GameChat functionality. Wait... bringing back, you say? Yes, for those who grew up in the SNES days, you might remember Paul Rudd starred in a similar 1991 commercial for Nintendo's successor to the NES. You remember the one: "Now you're playing with power... Super power!".

Update, you must. Aspyr released Jedi Power Battles on Switch eShop earlier this year and this week the game has received a "post-launch" patch. This update apparently resolves "issues and various updates". Here's the full rundown from the official Aspyr website:

The indie label will be "Leaning further into our own popular IPs in a variety of ways".

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Yes, I know it was a manga first.

Everything is expensive. Everything! Bills, food, video games, you name it. I mean, £75 for a game where you drive around as an Italian plumber? Not entirely convinced by this one, Mr. Bowser. I could get into the weeds of why all of this is happening (none of it for being particularly good reasons), but I won't because I bring word of something actually getting less expensive. Shock horror, I know, and yet here are Rockfish Games announcing that Everspace 2's upcoming Wrath of the Ancients DLC ...

Beijing held what’s being called the world’s first half-marathon for robots, allowing bipedal bots to compete alongside human runners, and as one might expect, ridiculousness ensued. The robots, which had human operators running with them, for the most part struggled to make it through the course at all, let alone complete the full 13 miles within the four-hour cutoff time. “One fell at the starting line,” Bloomberg reports. “Another’s head fell off and rolled on the ground. And one collapsed an...