The Switch’s new update fixes that lovely Joy-Con snap animation

9.1.0 The Switch, like the 3DS, exhumes personality. I just love that little “snap” when you break off pieces of the Joy-Con and slap them back into the system, but a recent update introduced a harrowing, spooky change: the little “click” animation was bugged! That mystery has been solved by a plucky team of engineers, as Nintendo has just released update 9.1.0 into the wild, which adds that cute animation back....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · James Cortez

Too Human: Kicking the crap out of robots

Too Human has the right idea — smash all the robots to bits and pieces before the dreadedRobolutioncan begin! Mr. Destructoid excluded, robots are shifty and dangerous and will enslave humanity inside infernal robot bakeries before long. Thank Christ for Silicon Knights and its bid to get them first! Seriously though,Too Humanis looking distinctly average no matter what way you slice it. This trailer has definitely improved its standing, but I’m just not feeling the epic quality that I perhaps mistakenly believed Dyack’s Baby Girl was meant to have....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Maria Austin

Total War: Warhammer II deals up to 18% off for release week

For those mulling a purchase Tomorrow marks the release ofTotal War: Warhammmer II— the sequel to last year’s fantasy strategy title that was well-reviewed by most sites. The first installment of course didn’t launch without problems, but last we checked most of the major issues have been patched up. So we’re hopeful that the second installment coming this Thursday and unlocking later tonight will be smooth running. That said, given Creative Assembly’s track record, we’re not holding our breath either....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · John Walton

Tower Defense RNG codes (June 2025) [UPD]

Updated: June 21, 2025 We looked for new codes! If you thought that this was just another tower-defense title on Roblox, you made a huge mistake.Tower Defense RNGhas everything that makes it a legit TD game, but a lot of stuff here depends on luck because you have to roll for the best weapons and traps while in battle. In most cases, you won’t get the weapon you want when you need it, and that’s why you should rely on Tower Defense RNG codes....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Renee Macdonald

Use your Switch to summon a sleeping god in The Shrouded Isle

Portable cult management In the latest edition of the games industry’s collective campaign to release every game ever made on the Nintendo Switch, developer Kitfox Games announced thatThe Shrouded Isleis headed to the console later this month. That’s great news for Switch owners and even better news for any Switch owner interested in cults but scared of committing to joining one. The Shrouded Isleis a management game with a wicked streak....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 329 words · Amanda Knapp

WayForward turns 30 today, celebrates nearly 20 years of Shantae

The studio was founded in 1990 WayForward got its start porting games likeCasper: Animated Activity Center.Casper! Now that’s an IP you don’t really see anymore. That’s how long WayForward has been around: 30 years this past week, actually. The company shared their three-decade anniversary on Twitter this weekend, showcasing a new image that highlights some of their more celebrated IP, likeShantaeandMighty Switch Force. The former is clearly the crown jewel of their legacy, and it’s hard to believe thatShantaeas a whole is nearly 20 years old: debuting in 2002....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Richard Santiago Jr.

Where’s my f**king Forza 2? And my three TVs?

Yeah, yeah – we know. Either you’re one of those “f**k Forza, Gran Turismo fo’ life” (PSTriple!) kind of people, or you’ve been impatiently tapping your foot, flipping off the clock, playing the demo, waiting for the 29th of May to finally come. And all the coverage on this fine web site hasn’t helped things much – if you’re the type, just reading about it makes you more excited. And seeing a three-screen rig will probably make you blow your load....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Vincent Matthews

Xbox One’s adding Neverwinter to its stable of free-to-play games

Perfect World’s stepping outside the PC crowd Xbox One has a handful of free-to-play titles, and all of them were built specifically for the console. That’ll change in the first half of 2015 asNeverwinter, a popular PC action MMO role-playing game, hits the Microsoft platform. Neverwinter‘s set in theDungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realmsuniverse, to which it provides new and supplemental narratives. For publisher Perfect World, it marks the first time venturing from the PC audience and into the console market....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Jessica Chan

You are invited: Lets make some TtWaV music and/or videos

[Image by Linzb0t] Hey everybody! Remember thatTalking to Women about Videogamesthing I was doing for a while? Yeah, that was pretty weird. Even weirder was the fact that a lot of people who watched the show told me that they really liked the opening theme. Some people even sang it in the shower! Naked! I was touched, so touched that I decided to write and record a full version of the song (in bothWildly ProducedandUnpluggedmixes)....

June 24, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Raven Scott

You’ll appreciate this 8K Crysis Remastered trailer if your eyes are better than mine

It’s all just a smudge to these mince pies This week sees the long-awaited launch ofCrysis Remastered,bringing the notoriously resource-heavy shooter out of 2007 and screaming onto the high platforms of 2020. Developer Crytek has released a new 8K trailer to show of the remaster GPU-melting myriad of visual effects. The super-shiny video compares the new release with the 2007 original, (which still looks pretty damn good), while spotlighting the real-time reflections, global illumination, ray-tracing effects, depth-of-field improvements and checks notes “rippling caustics”....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Lisa Smith MD

‘Dragon Ball Game – Project Z’ is a grand retelling of the Z saga

Legacy of Goku 4? Bandai Namco didn’t have onlyDragon Ball FighterZnews to share at “World Tour” finals tonight. Along with confirming a handful of fightersfor season two, a new teaser trailer was uploaded forDragon Ball Game – Project Z. While that is clearly a placeholder title, this new game is set to be an action RPG retelling of theZsaga. Players will (obviously) take control of Goku and play through re-enactments of some of the greatest anime moments in history....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Robert Ruiz

Activision doesn’t seem interested in adding subtitles to Spyro Reignited Trilogy

What did you say, Spyro? Subtitles serve a lot of different purposes in our media. They can be an aid for people with hearing deficiencies, they can help us understand foreign languages without the need for dubbing and they can even be used when we need to mute audio and be kind to the other people in our homes. I may not personally use them in English language games, but I’d never call for them to be removed from a title....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 328 words · David Grant

All Might California smashes his way into Jump Force

Various State Smashes My Hero Academia‘s star character, All Might, will be coming toJump Forceas DLC soon. Bandai Namco revealed the news onits Facebook pagewith a plethora of screenshots to show him off. I’m curious if his super move will be the “United States of Smash,” which could honestly be a good name for aSmash Bros.tournament. All Might is the second DLC character revealed forJump Force.The First, Yu-Gi-Oh’s Seto Kaiba, was saidto be released in Mayalongside two other fighters, so All Might is likely to be accompanied by another mystery dueler....

June 23, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Taylor Matthews