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It's been about two weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 went on sale, and if you're someone who specifically enjoys Nintendo games, you've already got one. Though there are plenty of other game console options out there, there's likely a huge swath of people who might wonder if they should pick up Nintendo's latest...
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The DIY PC market is in a tough spot. If we disregard older, previous-gen graphics cards for a moment, the only company currently selling anything approaching a modern entry-level GPUis Intel, and those cards are nearly impossible to find for anything approaching MSRP. Quality motherboards for under $100 barely exist, and those that do are
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Nintendo's successor to its unbelievably-popular Switch console is simply known as the Nintendo Switch 2. If you're in a hurry, here are the most important facts about the new system: it launches on June 5th, and the latest information still says $449.99 for the console with Joy-cons and dock, or $499 with a copy of...
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Nintendo's Switch 2 and its surprising $449 US price point have a lot of people wondering out loud if they shouldn't simply spend that same money on a Steam Deck or similar handheld. The gaming handheld market is in a radically different place now than it was in 2017 when Nintendo unveiled the original Switch console...
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Nintendo's Switch console is based on a now-aged NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC, and it has been rumored for more than a year that the Switch 2 would make use of an updated NVIDIA chip, likely based on the Tegra processor code-named "Orin". We still don't have 100% firm confirmation of that, but there's a new detail that...
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Nintendo fully unveiled the Switch 2 today, and if you haven't read our coverage of the system's announcement you should go ahead and do so, as this post assumes you already know about some of those things. If you're in a hurry, the short version is that the Switch 2 launches on June 5th, is fully backward compatible...
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Nintendo is nearing its big event to usher in the Switch 2 era, but the company wanted to host one final Direct showcase for the original Switch. As expected, most of the games shown off were smaller experiences because the company wants to hold off on any big reveals until the Switch 2's Direct event. However...
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After teasing its next-generation Switch 2 console during a 'first-look' showcase trailer earlier this month, Nintendo has opted to save the more juice bits for its next Nintendo Direct event, including details like specs, pricing, and what games will be released on day-1. Of course, the rumor mill is purportedly...
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2024 was a banger year for gamers. Sure, the largest developers in the industry may have faltered due to ballooning budgets and grossly-unpopular game releases, but there were still no shortage of absolutely awesome gamesjust check out our post about the top 11 games that came out this year.
The thing is, it might just be the case that
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As gamers wait with bated breath for the eventual reveal of Nintendos next console, which has already seen several leaks, the company is reaching back into the Wii U catalog to bring another fan favorite to the Nintendo Switch. Sci-Fi RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is coming in March of 2025 with...
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Nintendo has finally released some more details about one of its upcoming Fall releases for the Nintendo Switch, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which was initially unveiled in June of this year. The latest entry in the RPG series will allow players to explore a new world made up of islands, while Mario and Luigi will be...
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Nintendo raised some curious eyebrows last week when it dropped a creepy, 15-second age-restricted trailer that appeared to tease a first-party horror game for the Switch. This prompted tongue-in-cheek comments about the direction of Luigi's Mansion 4, though we now know exactly what Nintendo was actually teasinga new...
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was one of the most well received game announcements that debuted during the most recent Nintendo Direct. It will be the first time that Zelda will be a playable character, bringing a fresh take to the popular franchise. Thanks to the ESRBs newly released description, however, it...
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The umbrella of generative AI includes a wide variety of tools that could feasibly make game development easier and faster. Besides using language models for code review and optimization, there are also ways to use language models for generating NPC dialogue, whether beforehand or in real-time, like with NVIDIA's ACE...
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The latest Nintendo Direct was chock full of games, with just about something for everyone in the gaming companys wide audience. It was a solid showing in whats probably the last big Direct event for the current Switch hardware as the Switch 2 looms on the horizon. However, some of the games shown off certainly stood...
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It appears as if the Nintendo faithful will need to wait a little longer than anticipated to get their hands on the companys next console. It has been long rumored that Nintendo was aiming for a holiday 2024 release for its Switch successor. However, it now seems that those plans have hit a delay, forcing the company...
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If you know anything about hardware emulation, you'll expect that emulating the Nintendo Switch is a pretty tall task, and as far as it goes for "all hardware," you'd be right. However it's now possible to play a lot of Switch games on ARM64-based Android devices with better-than-real-hardware performance thanks to a...
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Intel's efforts to improve its graphics drivers continue apace. We probably don't have to tell an audience of enthusiasts that Arc launched in a less than ideal state, and that lead to a sub-optimal first impression for the brand. Intel has been working hard ever since to correct course, and its regular driver...
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Dolphin Emulator is one of the most beloved pieces of software among retro-gaming enthusiasts. The emulator, which supports both the original "Dolphin" console (that's the Nintendo Gamecube for you kids out there) as well as the "Revolution", better known as the Wii. This is possible because the two systems share most...
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The Nintendo Switch is a handheld game console that uses hardware already a year old when it released back in 2017. Considering all that, it should be trivial to emulate on modern PCs, right? Well... no, actually. Not only is emulation surprisingly difficult in general, but even high-level emulation of the Switch is...
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Everyone loves Super Mario, and while its fanbase is smaller, Metroid fans are even more rabid. Still, there's one long-lived Nintendo franchise that arguably stands above all in terms of its beloved status, and that's The Legend of Zelda. The next main-series Zelda game, known as "Tears of the Kingdom", will...
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It's no secret that we love video games. Not only do we love video games, many of us lived through significant heydays of gaming eras. From the 1970s and 80s arcade boom and then video game market crash in the US, all the way to today. Within those last five decades there have been many successes, failures, and...
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