Psychologist Dr. Audrey Tang took a look at how The Sims 4 mimics real world emotions and came away impressed.

Woohoo?

It’s finally time: after months of teases and rumors, Nintendo has finally revealed the successor to the Switch. A new console generation is always a big deal, but this is an especially pivotal one for Nintendo. Since its debut in 2017, the Switch has become Nintendo’s second-bestselling piece of hardware ever, trailing only the Nintendo

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch

Half the appeal of Marvel Rivals is that it’s not a polished, competition-ready esports shooter. NetEase’s Overwatch clone is full of chaotic, unbalanced abilities that lend themselves to experimentation and viral shenanigans. The hero shooter just got its next patch, and it looks like the team is continuing a slow,…Read more...

Pokémon Go is hosting a “Small Yet Strong” event, centered around tiny Pokémon, from Feb. 5-8. The event introduces shiny Nymble and Lokix to the game, as well as some other bonuses. Notably, during the event you’ll get doubled XP for catching Pokémon and there’s an increased chance for find XXS and XXL Pokémon in

Darkrai ex is a terrifying new card added to Pokémon TCG Pocket as part of the Space-Time Smackdown update. Since the expansion’s release in January, this card has quickly become the basis for several popular decks and a major card in the TCG Pocket meta, challenging the popularity of previous decks like Celebi ex. The card

After months of teasing, Universal Studios finally released a trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the upcoming seventh film in the long-running dinosaur franchise. And yes, it includes plenty of dinosaurs.Read more...

Warhorse's weird medieval RPG has come a long way.

This is not what I eggspected. According to Pennsylvania state police, someone recently made off with a partial truckload of premium, top-shelf, organic eggs. The thief absconded with their protein-rich haul in the night, and now appears to be dust in the wind.Read more...

I’ve always found the home invasion thriller to be the scariest subgenre of horror: the terror of people infringing on your space, the loss of the sense of safety, the spooky masks. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By making the wannabe burglars into incompetent, hopelessly overmatched buffoons and focusing on the complex

Golf! Always believe in your soul.PGA Tour 2K25 is playable on PS5 right now, weeks ahead of its scheduled 28th February release date.The “surprise” First Look demo can be downloaded for free, and allows you to get a head start on the golf sim, with progress transitioning to the full release should you decide to purchase it.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Nearly a year after news of Rooster Teeth’s demise, company founder Burnie Burns announced Wednesday that he’s acquired the brand, marking “a new chapter for Rooster Teeth as it returns to the hands of its original creator.” Burns’ company Box Canyon Productions will launch a new slate of productions under the Rooster Teeth brand in

BTW, Windows 10 support is ending shortly, too.

Explore dark dank caves and fight at night.

I’m going to have to grind a couple dozen mobs for some more GP because I’m about to blow my entire stash on the new Final Fantasy collection from BlackMilk. The Final Fantasy collaboration features a range of styles inspired by the latest installment of the popular Square Enix RPG, including an arcane oversized Black

EA CEO Andrew Wilson had confirmed the publisher would be willing to delay its next Battlefield - currently expected to release before April 2026 - if "some things happening in the year" meant that "wasn't a great window for us". Read more

Part of ensuring "long-term stability and success".Sumo Group, the UK-based games studio behind Snake Pass dev Sumo Digital and publisher Secret Mode, has announced that its development team will transition to work "exclusively on development services for partners" and has warned of "an impact on our studios and people" as a result (thanks to Push Square for the heads up).Revealed in a business update on the Sumo Group website, the studio announced the "strategic decision to focus Sumo Digital exclusively on development services for partners". While it claimed that it has "embraced opportunities to develop own IP" in the past, the decision is part of ensuring the "long-term stability and success of our business".Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Monster Hunter Wilds’s open beta 2 provides another opportunity to test the next of Capcom’s action role-playing series before its launch later this month. While previously there was a staggered rollout starting with PS5 owners, this time all platforms can play from the off, and for those who can’t play over the first set of

Dead or Alive.

Late last year I caught a post by solo developer Wabbaboy about how they “got quirky with the tutorial messages” in their upcoming game about a fly with a sword. It wasn’t just the tutorial messages that intrigued me, though. It was, well, everything about FlyKnight, a dreamy retro Soulslike about fighting bugs. FlyKnight, which

At Polygon, we want to introduce you do at least one thing we think you’d love every single day. With so many games, movies, shows, and and internet-based quick bites (or “quibis”) out there to experience, we know it’s next to impossible to decide how to take a chance on the untested, dive into the

Shuhei Yoshida, former president of Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, has revealed that Nintendo and Xbox each orchestrated the two scariest moments of his long career at PlayStation.

"Give it a year and they'll have exclusive vehicles in it."

Here are all the absolute best PS5 and PlayStation deals you can find right now.

Turns out, if you make a straightforward, more powerful update to the second-best-selling console of all time, and put a 2 on the end of its name, big publishers are happy to jump on board. Without making any specific commitments, Electronic Arts just as good as confirmed that it will be bringing some of its

Steam early access games that haven't been updated in a long while will now be more prominently labelled as such, according to reports. As noticed by third-party tracking platform SteamDB, Valve have begun adding warnings to early access info boxes, making it harder to accidentally spend your pocket money on a promising project that hasn't advanced in years. Read more

WWE 2K25 continues the recent tradition of the series, layering new features on top of existing and robust fundamentals. From my brief experience though, it’s hard to say this is anything but a very incremental step for an already well-realised grappling series.

It’s not easy being a woman in a man’s world. No one knows that better than Companion’s Iris, who is informed not long into the now-in-theaters sci-fi movie that she’s actually a companion robot and, now that she’s killed someone, she’s going to have to be reset. This being a movie and all, Iris doesn’t

With an RGB-laden wireless gaming headset on a budget, something's gotta give. Unfortunately, it's the sound here.

It's all about the bellows.

I'd say $1,900 for an RTX 5070 Ti mobile laptop at launch is pretty reasonable.

Thinking with portals.

These are the best Xbox deals currently available, including discounts on controllers, games, and more.

Many will argue that the best solo class in Path of Exile 2 isn’t the one topping the meta currently but the one you enjoy the most. That’s true…to some extent. Some builds prove viable from the get-go, capable of pushing all of the end-game content across Wraeclast. Others, not so much. For example, the Warrior,…Read more...

Levelling the playing field.Apex Legends is mixing up the meta with its 24th season, Takeover. As we usher our way into Year 6 of the popular battle royale, Respawn Entertainment is aiming to improve what it already has rather than offering up new dollops of content. And that all starts with a meta reset, as every single weapon is buffed with the upcoming season.It’s a decision sure to ruffle some feathers, especially as the new playable Legends will be dropping at a “different pace” this year. However, Respawn claims it's trying to make changes to the game that will improve the experience for most players, admitting that new Legends don’t have the same impact that they used to.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Psycho Patrol R is going to mech you pay.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is estimated to have made a staggering half a billion dollars in less than three months, the same amount popular culture hit Pokémon Go made in just 22 days fewer.

The coolest mech the world has ever known is finally making its big-screen, live-action debut. Bandai Namco and Legendary Entertainment announced a deal on Wednesday to co-finance the film together, with Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle set to direct. I’m praying it won’t be as terrible as some of the other…Read more...

No EA RPG is safe from the publisher's obsession with live service.

Microsoft is continuing its string of PlayStation ports by bringing Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition and Age of Mythology: Retold to PS5 players in only a few months.

When I’ve had enough of fighting the dogs in a respectable, straightforward manner, I pick them up with my mind and - with a casualness that has to be extremely insulting if you’re a dog - drop them directly off a cliff. This ends the fight immediately. Sometimes I resort to this low move out of frustration, when a dull fight has dragged on for too long. Sometimes I resort to it out of panic, because I’ve accidentally set fire to every hard surface within ten feet, or frozen myself to a wall. Often it’s just for the pleasure of it.In Eternal Strands, Yellow Brick Games’ debut title, you play the leader of a "weaver band", a crew of freelance magicians, in a world where something extremely bad happened to magic. Some years ago, the Enclave, a city state acting as the isolationist heart of the world’s magic, exploded in a kind of power surge - one part tsunami, one part blown fuse - and just as quickly sealed itself off from the world outside. Somehow managing to breach the wall, your band finds themselves the first people to set foot inside the ruined capital since the calamity and sets about uncovering the mystery of what exactly went wrong.Read more

Apex Legends has announced Takeover, the 24th season of Respawn's battle royale, which introduces a new way to grab weapons called Arsenals. Additionally, Assault Class Legends take center stage with several perk changes, while Ash and Ballistic gain strong buffs. POIs will now be visible from the drop ship so you'll be able to see exactly where you're headed. Finally, there's new ranked challenges and the introduction of Mythic weapons - in short, there's a lot to sink your teeth into. Read more

A fitting farewell.We love it when a studio demonstrates significant growth and improvement with each of its subsequent projects. With Bombservice specifically, the team has always boasted a strong understanding of what makes Metroidvanias ‘click’, and with Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, it’s delivered what may well be its finest game yet.The latest chronological entry in the series, Moonlit Farewell is a noticeable step up from its already-excellent predecessor, Reverie Under the Moonlight, in terms of scope, visual design, and gameplay. Right from the start, you’re greeted by stunning scenes of pixel-art wizardry, with Bombservice showcasing its mastery of colour and atmosphere. This extends to the characters and enemies, with each and every bizarre creature feeling both alien in design and yet perfectly suited to Momodora’s ethereal world.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Delivered.Having released just yesterday at the time of writing this article, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has moved 1 million copies right off the bat.This kind of result seemed inevitable, given the game's explosive popularity on PC (which has been plain for all to see thanks to Steam's player tracking data).Read the full article on pushsquare.com

If Verstappen doesn't bother with motion rigs, maybe you don't need to either.

Following multiple delays that have pushed the game deeper into 2025, along with reports of this being the biggest AC game with the longest development time in the franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is nearly upon us. Of course, there’s still time to complete a game or two beforehand. While February is positively jam…Read more...

Hark, or whatever that is in Czech. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has earned Playable status on the Steam Deck, and it’s a shrewd assessment on Valve’s part: there are some shortcomings that keep the coveted Verified badge out of Deliverance 2’s reach, most notably its cramped UI, but I’ve been bumbling around the medieval RPG for hours now and it is indeed plenty functional in handheld mode. Despite its system requirements arguably suggesting otherwise, it can even manage some decent 40fps-plus performance without dumping all the quality settings to their lowest. Read more

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 looks like a massive hit, with one million copies sold just a day after launch.

Star Wars Outlaws for PS5 and Xbox Series X drops to $40 at Amazon, over 40% off its list price of $69.99.

The Switch 2 currently faces three big questions following its January reveal: how powerful is it, what games will it have, and what will it cost? Nintendo was asked about that last one in its latest earnings call, and while the company’s president remained cagey, he also said Nintendo will continue to take its…Read more...

The PS5 is full of gorgeous games, so you should pair it with a TV that can breathe the most life into every frame.

AI was spotted fleeing the scene.

Developer Noodle Cat Games has announced Cloudheim, a new multiplayer action-adventure/survival/crafting game due out next year in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

The art of spin.Luck Be a Landlord lets you fight the evils of rental accommodation by using a customisable slot machine to generate cash. It's a daft premise, but sets up a simple game that's all about finding synergies to maximise your score.Each time you spin, the symbols on your slot machine randomise and reward you with coins, depending on what they are, their position, and their potential interactions with each other. Between spins, you'll add new symbols to the rotation, hoping to find icons that combo with others in your collection.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

It's been over six years since the first consumer-level graphics cards arrived that supported hardware accelerated ray tracing and while hardware has improved massively since the launch of Nvidia's Turing architecture in 2018, this has been matched with innovations in the software space. RTX Mega Geometry was revealed at CES 2025 with a range of compelling demos, but now we have our first example of the technology in a shipping game: Alan Wake 2. There are quality, efficiency and performance upgrades but perhaps the biggest surprise in our testing is that it's the RTX 20-series and 30-series GPUs that benefit most. Read more

We knew it was coming, but Nintendo has now confirmed an exact time for its dedicated Switch 2 Direct. Read more

As we settle in for the long, excruciating wait for more tangible news on the Switch 2, Nintendo has thrown us a little extra nugget of information. While we knew the company was planning to share more about the Switch 2 on April 2nd, now we have a time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM

But there might be some kinks to work out.

It's hard to deny the demand's there, so dish over that sweet stock.

Set your alarms.Nintendo has provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct in April, focused entirely on the much-anticipated Switch 2 console.Scheduled to commence on 2nd April 2025, we now know that it will be broadcast at the following times:Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Alongside finally revealing the Switch 2, Nintendo has given a date for a new Nintendo Direct, due on April 2 this year, which will presumably provide a far more detailed breakdown of the new console, and perhaps reveal a bunch of release titles that’ll accompany the machine.Read more...

Though no official price will be revealed for now.Nintendo has today shared a Japanese transcript of the recent Q&A investors meeting with company president Shuntaro Furukawa and, as you might expect, a lot of the talk gravitated to Switch 2.One question in particular broached the topic of product pricing, specifically whether Nintendo is taking inflation and exchange rates into account while it's deciding how to list the upcoming console.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Cozy, laid-back games have a tendency to feature a bit of character customization, and Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is no different. In this relaxing, delivery-focused game, you can equip the titular character with a variety of outfits and charms that give her a bit of additional personality. While a few of these can…Read more...

Rift of the NecroDancer, a new music game from the creators of the music roguelike Crypt of the NecroDancer, solves the problem of exploring a big library of tracks with a simple idea: a story mode. In Rift, you have to press buttons in time with notes that appear on lanes in front of you,

Our-PG.When the girl joined the party in Secret of Mana, a whole new world opened up to me.Bright-eyed, huddled close to our TV, a second SNES controller plugged into the little grey box, I didn’t just have to sit and wait my turn to play an RPG for once. I could play at the same time my mum could.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Jurassic Park enters its third era with Jurassic World Rebirth, and we’ve finally seen footage from the July movie in its first trailer. And...yeah! It’s looking good. It’s looking like if the director of Monsters made a Jurassic World movie. For good reason.Read more...

The first wave of Nvidia 50 series GPUs have arrived. Now they're gone. So, if you need an RTX 5080-prebuilt gaming PCs are currently your best bet of securing. While Dell has got some overpriced $5000+ Alienware 51 desktops up for preorder, there other (considerably cheaper, but not necessarily affordable) options up for grabs right now. Read more

Help us RDNA 4, you're our only hope.

But the evidence is shaky.Rumours of a Devil May Cry remake have just been given a significant boost, thanks to comments made by Vergil voice actor Daniel Southworth.Southworth was part of a Devil May Cry anniversary panel at Power Morphicon 2024, which took place in August of last year. However, as spearheaded by The Nerd Stash, the footage is only just being reported on now, over five months later.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Puzzle & Dragons developer Gung Ho has come under fire from its shareholders, who have complained about the extremely high salary of its president and poor returns on their investments. Read more

Vendrán Las Aves - "The Birds Will Come" - is a brief, quiet, hopeful game about burnout recovery. Summarised as a "slice of life tamagotchi" and available in Spanish and English, it's a gamejam production from Francisco Riolobos, Chuso Montero and Deconstructeam, the Valencia-based developers behind The Red String Club and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. It's free to download from Itch.io, and takes the form of a snowglobe perspective of somebody's one-room apartment. The person in question has just left their job after a rough spell, and has impulsively bought a guitar. They are also, however, totally exhausted, with barely the willpower to do anything beyond getting out of bed, let alone make music. Your task is to help them through each day and rebuild their morale till they feel able to pluck a few chords. Read more

MultiVersus will shut down when Season 5 ends in May, but the sweeping changes to combat speed that were introduced in a new update have fans enjoying its gameplay now more than ever — and even sparked a #SaveMultiVersus trend on social media.

EA boss Andrew Wilson is willing to move Battlefield to account for what he called a "nuanced year relative to competition," and we all know what that means: the GTA 6 release date.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket developer Creatures Inc. has gifted players 1,000 Trade Tokens — enough for just two significant trades — as it continues to investigate ways to fix the controversial mechanic.

You can claim the Brunswick armor and weapons once you complete the prologue.

Czech the numbers.

Every detail covering Monster Hunter Wilds Beta 2 revealed.With the full release now just a few weeks away, Capcom has returned with a second Monster Hunter Wilds beta. This one is slightly bigger and more accessible than the first, so we're here to run you through everything there is to know. In this Monster Hunter Wilds guide, we'll reveal all beta 2 start times, beta 2 preload, what's new, and rewards for playing.<toc expand="none">Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Shares reach another all-time high.Nintendo recently released its latest financial update for the third quarter of FY2025 and, as most of us had probably expected, numbers are down across the board as the Switch lumbers towards its ninth year on the market.Had Nintendo released such figures several years ago – in which operating profit was down a staggering 46.7% – you'd imagine that investors would begin to panic and Nintendo's share price would experience a bit of a tumble (just look at EA's recent downturn to see evidence of this).Read the full article on nintendolife.com

EA and Maxis have issued a patch for the recently released Legacy editions of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2. Read more

Servants of Freedom detonates on February 6.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said its sports franchises, Madden and FC, might find “real energy” on Nintendo Switch 2, and also pointed to The Sims as a game that could do well on the console.

Class of 2006.

EA is working on a "bigger, more meaningful update" to its live-service shooter Apex Legends, suggesting some form of sequel will be on the way. Read more

As Respawn’s battle royale Apex Legends nears its sixth birthday, EA has said it’s failing to do the business for the company, and outlined plans for what it called Apex Legends 2.0.

Add to cart(ography).Map fans, listen up! Retro Game Books is back with another volume of Video Game Maps: SNES — the gorgeous-looking hardback that (fittingly) examines some of the console's most iconic cartography — and this one is set to put another 65+ retro gems under the microscope.Following on from last year's 'Vol. 1', the second volume is now available to preorder from the Retro Game Books website for £35/$42 and is expected to ship in late spring.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

EA has become one of the first publishers to discuss - in broad terms - its plans for Switch 2, now Nintendo has finally lifted the lid on its next console. Read more

It will "monitor the issue", however.

Bringing some indie energy.Sony’s plunged the price on another 2,000 or so PS5 and PS4 games, with indies generally being the focus – although there are exceptions.There are some tantalising new lows among the discounts, with the offers set to end on 20th February, so you’ve got a little time to make up your mind over what you want.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

It's a sad day for anyone who isn't a Mercy main.

"I didn't really want to".Takaya Imamura, the legendary ex-Nintendo dev perhaps best known for his work on the Star Fox franchise, received an early gig at the company working on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES.In an interview with Edge magazine (thanks, GamesRadar+), however, he apparently wasn't particularly keen to work on the title, and would have preferred to enjoy playing the final build as a fan. According to Imamura, the QA for the game was "really tough", and he struggles to play A Link to the Past to this day without having flashbacks to its development.Read the full article on nintendolife.com