Video game archival is a noble act, especially in this day and age where always-online games vanish when their servers are turned off, or when niche but beloved games disappear alongside the services they're locked to. There are libraries of indies locked to Apple Arcade, the PS Vita, and elsewhere, never to be played again; and then there's Borderlands Online.
Few games among the Nintendo Switch 2 launch line-up can match Cyberpunk 2077 in putting the system through its paces. It's a staple of our PC benchmarking suite for good reason: the open world design is a solid stressor for any CPU, while its effects-heavy battles challenge GPU resources as well. This Switch 2 release has clearly been a big undertaking for developer CD Projekt Red too, who produced the port in-house with unique optimisations for Switch 2's ARM-based architecture. It's also remarkably the Ultimate Edition of the game, with both the core adventure and the more taxing Phantom Liberty expansion bundled in - an extra portion that proved too demanding to justify a last-gen console release, and was instead restricted to PS5 and Series X/S, and yet here it is running on Switch 2.
During an annual Sony business presentation, CEO Hermen Hulst stated the company remains committed to building "a diverse and resilient" portfolio of live service games, which includes the unreleased Marathon and Fairgames. That's despite high profile live service failures, in addition to controversy with these two forthcoming games.
Devil May Cry 5 is the latest Capcom game to surpass the 10m units sold milestone.
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. I bet you didn't even notice it's a couple of hours late this week. Shh, don't say if you did. This time, Bertie learns a lesson or two about communication while Tom O tackles Mario Kart World's Free Roam missions.
On the tenth anniversary of the release of free-to-play Fallout Shelter, Bethesda has revealed the management sim game has been downloaded 230 million times across all platforms.
Sony has seemingly loosened regional restrictions on a number of its PC games, including God of War Ragnarök, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and Helldivers 2.
Industrious Switch fans have started compiling a fan-made list that tracks which Switch 1 games have seen an improvement - or a decline - in performance when running on their new Nintendo Switch 2 consoles.
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The Alters achieves something tense and new by merging strategy base-building with third-person exploration and a sci-fi story about cloning yourself. But repetition and complicated busywork mar the overall effect.
Sony president Hideaki Nishino has stated the company is open to adjusting the price of PlayStation Plus in the future, as the company aims to "maximise profitability".
Remedy already has two major updates for its Control multiplayer spin-off FBC: Firebreak planned for this year, with more to hopefully follow.
The newly agreed terms of the Interactive Media Agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the video game industry represent "an enormous effort on both sides and a real desire to move forward in a constructive way", said voice actor Jennifer Hale.
PlayStation will remain "thoughtful" with which of its games it brings to other platforms.
Nier: Automata producer Yosuke Saito and director 
Summer Game Fest saw its peak viewership jump 89 percent year-over-year, making 2025's show the biggest to date.
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