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Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Verdict On Stellar Blade's Switch 2 Port
"Better than expected". Stellar Blade also arrived on the Switch 2 this week, and it's been positively received so far. Here on Nintendo Life, we gave it a score of seven out of ten, and although there are some technical drawbacks, Eve's outing stands tall on the hybrid platform. The team at Digital Foundry has now delivered its tech review of the Unreal Engine 4 title, and while it's no "tour de force", it does translate to a "better than expected Switch 2 port", with what's described as an experience with "gentler compromises" than many more recent titles. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Video: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch 2, 3DS, N64)
Take a look. Zelda: Ocarina of Time returned this week on the Switch 2 and it looks better than ever. If you are wondering just much of a facelift it's had since the 2011 outing, and the original N64 hit, you might want to check out this side-by-side comparison video. YouTube channel ElAnalistDeBits has now released a "final graphics comparison" which takes a closer look at the character models, environments, physics, the many locations in the game, and much more. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Path of Exile 2's game director thinks a death recap will finally allow us players to complain about the right things
Sometimes it's you, sometimes it's the crab
A BioWare documentary was already in the works when the shutdown was announced: 'With the studio's recent closure, the film is now a profound valediction'
"The best stories never really end."
Chess is immediately more fun if you jettison most of the rules and replace them with weapons-grade Game Boy Advance
"Pawn Chess" is whatever you want it to be in Rulehouse.
One of the buggiest D&D games ever released, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, is back and actually playable again
But did anyone ask for this?
Echoes of Mirror's Edge, Dishonored and a dream set in Italy I once had can be found in Boars in Rome, an expressive parkour platformer set in dystopian Rome
Years ago, I had this dream where I was parkouring through a greatly sunken version of Venice, no doubt sourced from the many hours I put into Assassin's Creed 2 as a teen who should have been studying for their GCSEs a lot more than they were. It's stuck with me after all this time mostly because of how much I wanted to capture that feeling again somehow, as the real Assassin's Creed didn't quite cut it. And lo and behold, there I was today browsing Bluesky when I came across Boars in Rome, a Mirror's Edge and Counter Strike Surf inspired parkour platformer set in a dystopian version of Rome. Read more
Zelda OOT Remake: Win the Treasure Chest Shop game
How to win the Treasure Chest Shop game in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Path of Exile 2 devs want to solve missing archetypes with its Templar and Marauder classes, and it'll help Druids too
Path of Exile 2’s Directors reveal plans for the last two classes, whether the Conquerors league will go core, and the end of the campaign.
County of Fortune, now out in early access, is a medieval city builder that asks, why limit yourself to just one city?
I know what you want. The humble city builder isn't enough for you any more, is it? You need a cities builder, you can't just stop at one, but you don't want to build up an entirely different city on a new save file. If it were up to you, they'd all be on the same map, a motorway's worth of a drive away from each other. If we're talking contemporary cities, I can't help you, but if you can settle for numerous medieval towns across an entire county, then County of Fortune should do just fine. Read more
Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor lays off staff, a month after bringing furloughed developers back
Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor has laid off an unspecified number of staff, a month after bringing some of its furloughed team back to work. Read more
"This trailer is my way of saying goodbye": Have a listen to the Mass Effect 5 score that could have been, courtesy of one of the original games' composers
By this point I'm probably safe in assuming that you all know EA are shutting down BioWare , and that Mass Effect 5 has been cancelled in turn. You may have also seen that an internal trailer for Mass Effect 5, or Universe as it was seemingly going to be called, was leaked not long after the news broke , and that Sam Hulick, one of the composers on the original trilogy of games, shared he was going to offer up his re-scored version of the trailer . Well, it's N7 Day, as rough as that will be for many of the developers on the game, but Hulick has stood by his word, and shared an oral glimpse at what the world of Mass Effect Universe could have sounded like. Read more
Zelda OOT Remake: Full Bottom of the Well walkthrough
Everything you need to get the Lenses of Truth from the Bottom of the Well in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Sony delays PlayStation's Pulse Elevate speakers indefinitely, less than a week before launch
Sony has delayed its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers indefinitely, less than a week before they were due to launch. Read more
Assassin's Creed is reportedly going to ancient Rome, while a mobile spin-off heads to Jerusalem
Ubisoft is reportedly working on two new Assassin's Creed games , and one of them is set in ancient Rome. Read more
Rumour: Data Found In Zelda: Ocarina Of Time May Hint At Master Quest DLC
Make it so. One of our main bugbears with Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 – as incredible as it is – is that it's overall quite a breezy experience for those already familiar with the original or 3DS release. As such, we thought it might beneficial if Nintendo were to include a more difficult mode, whether it be a simple Hero Mode in which enemies deal more damage, or perhaps even a port of the reworked Master Quest mode from the GameCube and 3DS. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
AMD CEO Lisa Su: 'We are a data center-first company'
Congratulations.
Zelda OOT Remake: Business Scrub Password solution
How to find the Business Scrub's Password in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Path of Exile 2's 1.0 version is out this year after all, arriving in December with a full campaign, two neat new classes, and more
About a year ago, the devs behind Path of Exile 2 delayed the game's 1.0 release to an unspecified point in time, only offering the hope that it wouldn't slip into 2027 (doing much the same about half a year later). But there's good news: it won't! As the action RPG now has a 1.0 release date locked in, alongside a look at what you can expect when it arrives. Read more
After seeing them myself, I'm convinced WoW: Forever's RP servers don't need to be this separate, and I say that as a decorated veteran of MMO roleplay
I'm kinda just playing chiller PvE, here.
Gallery: So, What's Your Favourite Zelda Cover Art?
Take a link to the past with our box art gallery. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has just launched on Switch 2, and the critical reaction seems to be pretty impressive – our pals over at Nintendo Life awarded it a glowing 9/10 in their review . I imagine many of you are already romping around the environs of Hyrule in all its remastered glory, and I took the current wave of Zeldamania as a good excuse to crack out the DSLR and photograph some Zelda box art. Read the full article on timeextension.com
What's the toughest choice you've made in an RPG?
Unburden yourself.
"I feel that sense of responsibility more acutely": After BioWare's closure, the makers of a new Mass Effect 3 co-op remaster mod look to carry their legacy
It appears I was premature in suggesting that the closure of BioWare might quickly spell an end for Mass Effect 3 's strangely good , preposterously enduring co-op mode. I reinstalled and logged on just last week, and easily found a series of packed lobbies. Still, it was always regrettable that 2021's Mass Effect Legendary Edition opted not to remaster this multiplayer component alongside its dolled-up main trilogy, thus failing to introduce to a new generation the joys of performing teleporting psychic headbutts as a millennia-old bipedal frog. Read more
After Star Wars Zero Company dev Bit Reactor brought back an unspecified number of furloughed devs, some of those who weren't have seemingly been laid off
Early last month, Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor brought back a number of developers who had been furloughed before the game launched in August. At the time they did not specify how many devs were returning to the studio, with a separate report claiming more than half had become full time staffers again. Unfortunately, it does now seem like not everyone was able to be brought back, with a number of now former workers sharing word of having been laid off. Read more