New pictures reveal Nintendo’s Joy-Con fix: A piece of foam?

Feel free to contact them Although I still haven’t experienced anyleft Joy-Con issuessince my Switch review unit pre-launch, many others have. A lot of folks have narrowed it down to defective units and “incompatible rooms,” which is a not-great experience if you happen to have one of those interference death trap spots. Naturally people have been contacting Nintendo to get their units fixed, and CNET was able to snap a few “before and after” pictures (spot the difference!...

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 197 words · Carol Walker

One more trailer for Harley Quinn’s Revenge couldn’t hurt

Rocksteady Studios has gotanother trailerfor “Harley Quinn’s Revenge” ahead of the add-on’s May 29 release on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, though this one isn’t quite such a tease. We’re shown the basic setup for how Robin gets involved and are given a good look at Quinn’s less-than-pristine appearance. One of my favorite aspects of the core game was that the inhabitants of Arkham City looked suitably dirty and sickly — particularly Batman as the story progressed — so it’s nice to see that attention to detail continue in the DLC....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Zachary Mccarty

Outlast’s Whistleblower DLC sure looks unsettling

$8.99 for this origin story As much as I like being scared, there’s a sense of dread I have to overcome before returning to horror games I’ve already played through. Perhaps you’ll find yourself in a similar situation after watching this effective trailer forOutlast‘sWhistleblowerDLC. It’s out May 6 for PC and North American PlayStation 4, and May 7 for European PS4 at a price point of $8.99. Whistlebloweris set before the coreOutlaststory — at least initially — and revolves around a software engineer up at Mount Massive Asylum....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Dean Garza

Pairing Simpsons episodes with video games

Buy me GoldenEye or go to hell The Simpsonshas been on our screens for coming up to 30 years, becoming a cornerstone in comedy timing and how to make quality animated entertainment content. And it’s true that there are divides in the fandom: When did the show stop being funny? Season 8? Season 13? Are theTreehouse of Horrorepisodes the best episodes, or the worst episodes? Was the first season a load of old shite, or was it just a little rough around the edges?...

June 15, 2025 · 9 min · 1741 words · Timothy Reyes

PC Port Report: Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

Have faith, this game runs great Mirror’s Edgeis my jam. It was one of the first Xbox 360 games I really fell in love with, and since then I’ve clocked hundreds of hours across the 360 and the PC versions speedrunning, doing time trials, trying out mods, and generally having a grand ol’ time being super-agile runner Faith. The fact we’re even at the point where we’re all talking about a secondMirror’s Edgegame fills me with excitement....

June 15, 2025 · 5 min · 976 words · Joshua Montoya

Playthrough: Destiny’s Mars has cars, but not a single hot dog in sight

Max is super hungry for wien– hot dogs I’ve come down with a bad case of Dumpster Mono, and Max Scoville is terrified of germs, so he made me stay home so he could playDestinyand call it ‘work’. But, without my responsible guidance, he got tricked into playing co-op with a man named Steve, who he thought he knew, but turned out to be a complete internet stranger. That doesn’t stop Max from missing a lot of shots, and misreading pertinent information....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 82 words · Michael Rhodes

PS Plus Premium is adding more retro games in September, but the Extra lineup is so much better

The next batch of classics and Game Catalog titles will show up on September 20 Here are thePlayStation Plus Premiumclassics coming on September 20: And here are theExtra/PremiumGame Catalog additions, also arriving on September 20: For summaries of every game, the PlayStation Bloghas you covered. As I’ve said before, if you’ve got the money and interest, Essential is where it’s at right now. The main limiting factor is time (and maybe storage or bandwidth caps)....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Michael Tyler

Raw Fury announces intriguing fish adventure Call of the Sea

I’m so into this vibe While some of what was revealed today during the Xbox Series X gameplay event was known, I’m perhaps most drawn to the siren’s song ofCall of the Sea. Revealed by Raw Fury, who announced it for “Xbox One and Xbox Series X,” it follows a researcher who seeks to uncover a secret on a deserted island and find her missing husband: that may or may not involve fish people....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · April Wright

Recap: All the big headlines from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, including a Kojima podcast

A lot of it was revealed already As Geoff continues to add more shows and reveal events under his belt, things are starting to look a little thinner. AlthoughGamescom Opening Night Livehas the potential to give off the air of “the E3 of Europe,” today was largely reserved for games that were already shown off in some capacity; or came back with a marketing reboot after years-earlier reveals. It’s time for a Gamescom 2022 recap....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Tammy Garza

Ryan V. talks Miyamoto, religion and ordinary heroes

Get to know the people that make great videogames Last week on Sup Holmes (now onitunes) we happily welcomed former Next Level games and Silicon Knights programmer Ryan Vandendyck to the show. Ryan worked on games likeSpider-Man: Friend or Foe,Super Mario Strikers, andLuigi’s Mansion: Dark Moonin the past. His latest project is the comedy/strategy RPGCitizens of Earth(only a couple of days left to back it!). We talked with Ryan about the culture at Silicon Knights and how it helped take their huge open world horror gameThe Boxfrom a giant adventure, to a single room filled with cool stuff, to cancelation....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 274 words · Robert Vincent

Sanitarium is a game that might help treat tuberculosis in the real world

Made by third year Scottish students Here’s another thing to add to the already long list of good deeds gamer have done: they’re now helping treat tuberculosis. Sanitariumis a game developed by Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. The game challenges players to treat as many TB-infected people as they can on the scant resources they have available. It looks kind of like a backwardsPandemic. But the thing is, the game records and analyses data using a mathematical model developed by St....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 240 words · Lisa Edwards

SAR – Search and Rescue on the way to the PSN

As part of SNK’s new “Arcade Classics” program, old dogSAR – Search and Rescueis on it’s way to the Playstation Network. Evidently, back in the day, SNK wasn’t sure that people would know whatSARmeant, so they included the explanation in the title. SARwill be a PSP/PS3 mini release, and unfortunately it looks like it’s not Vita compatible at the moment. If you were in Japan however, none of this would matter, as you’d be able to pick upSNK Arcade Classics 0for the PSP, which includes 19 other games....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Adam Hammond

See how Wolfenstein: The New Order is censored in Germany

Thank you. They can happen. Drive Wolfenstein: The New Orderis the first game in the series to be officially released in Germany, and to make that happen developer Machine Games had to do a little self-censorship on their Nazi killing simulator. The main change is anything referring to Nazis. Instead the bad guys are referred to as “The Regime.” Eurogamertook a detailed look at all the changes German gamers can expect, from all the emblem replacements to the way characters speak about their enemies....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Jessica Gutierrez