Review: Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World Switch 2 Upgrade
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land gets the sendoff it deserves in huge Switch 2 DLC
Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s Nintendo Switch 2 exclusiveStar-Crossed World upgrade brings plenty of tantalizing extras to a platforming great. But for me, its most meaningful back-of-the-box addition is more abstract: closure.
Review: Kirby And The Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World – Kirby’s Best Shines Even Brighter
Once more, with gear-mouth feeling! Recently, I was back reading over my original Kirby and the Forgotten Land review to get a quick reminder of how I found the base game when it released in 2022 (what is time?) and,…
Microsoft staff perform sit-in protest in company president’s office over Israeli military ties
A group of current and former Microsoft employees have staged a sit-in protest in the office of company president Brad Smith over the use of Azure and generative AI technologies by the Israeli military during their on-going bombardment of Palestinians…
SK Hynix’s ‘world first’ 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year
For SSD enthusiasts, there are three letters to look out for, so they can avoid them at all costs: QLC. While this type of flash memory has been great for reducing the cost of large-capacity drives, it’s not ideal for…
Final Fantasy 14’s Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it’s left them more nervous than excited
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn turned 12 years old this week—pause while I crumble into dust. Alongside a sweet ol’ video message from director and producer Naoki Yoshida came the news I and many others have been waiting for:…
FF14 director Yoshi-P is ‘kind of glad and relieved’ that Dawntrail’s story is over, because players will have ‘the fate of the world on their shoulders’ again—but that was never the expansion’s problem
Final Fantasy 14′s going to be moving on from Dawntrail… uh, eventually, given the MMO’s recent troubles with patch cadence. But still, having played through 7.3, I’m genuinely quite hopeful for the game’s storyline to kick up again. I had…
Why you need to watch Barbarian on Netflix before it vanishes next week
Zach Cregger’s Weapons is, without a doubt, a triumph, a critical darling and box-office success that hits hard and leaves plenty to discuss afterward. But for me, it doesn’t knock Cregger’s first foray into the horror scene off its perch:…
‘Bend-jo’ Needs You to Bend Reality With Banjo Tunes
Bend-jo sees you folding the world up around you using music so that you can figure out a way to reach various golden doors. A genie grants your wish to be able… The post ‘Bend-jo’ Needs You to Bend Reality…
WoW devs want to ‘step back’ from the ‘world-ending’ stakes where you get called a pitiful mortal lots, and back to quests like ‘oats for Blanchy’—presumably without sending the horse to hell afterwards
World of Warcraft’s Worldsoul Saga is gonna be a big’un—in case phrases like “Midnight”, “The Last Titan”, or, indeed, “Worldsoul” were any indication, this trio of expansion packs are focusing on some pretty intense story beats. The void wielded by…