No spoilers here, but a tough time initially learning to play as DK gives way to one of the best closing segments of a game that I’ve played. The bananas are stacked against Donkey Kong Bananza. This is a fantastic platformer, up there with the highs and delights seen in Super Mario Odyssey—possibly even surpassing… Read more »
Nintendo can remotely disable Switch 2 consoles for modding or piracy, potentially challenging Australian consumer protection laws. A month out from the console launch, and players around the world are still finding new and exciting things about the Switch 2 console. But for some users, particularly those in gaming’s more technical communities, they’re discovering Nintendo’s… Read more »
We waited about 90 minutes before we called it. After getting a taste of what Elden Ring Nightreign had to offer, playing with one other random online, we were sitting in the lobby area waiting to be matched with one other player for another game. The game pulled together our first party almost instantaneously. After… Read more »
A quick look at a weekend stuffed full of game trailers, with some reflections on what was missing. Blink and you may have missed Summer Game Fest over the weekend — especially if you were busy playing the new Switch 2. The event consisted of 16 major showcases this year, featuring everything from new major… Read more »
After years of rumours, we have just about everything we need to know about the long-awaited Switch 2. Thursday at midnight — Australian time — Nintendo revealed the console’s launch date, features and, crucially, its launch price. As predicted by analysts, Nintendo has used the Switch 2 launch as an opportunity to push the ceiling of… Read more »
To this day, my friends and I still aren’t sure what killed our online Smash Night. We usually play in person, but for one reason or another, we decided to play online. It had worked before, why wouldn’t it work again? We started a lobby, shared the code, and then… it froze on the loading… Read more »
Nintendo has to be the gaming industry’s most unpredictable company. In 2017, after years of resisting pressure to do so, the gaming giant released a trio of mobile games leveraging its hot intellectual property: Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. All three ticked away with similar business models. You could… Read more »
This weekend I dropped spiky blocks on my mates’ heads, attempted to cherry-pick them off a conveyor belt and ultimately defeated them by stealing their stuff. It was all in the name of a good time, of course. Surely they enjoyed it as much as me? And to be clear, it was done virtually, through… Read more »
I have $350 riding on the announcement of Nintendo’s next gaming console. Before you ask, I’m not much of a gambler. That’s in fact a quote I got for repairing an OLED Switch screen — the parts alone are the bulk of it. There’s a glaring scratch right through the centre of mine. I’m not… Read more »
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