Author: : Kirill Kuznetsov, Community Manager
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Best Nintendo Switch Strategy Games
[ad_1] Image: Nintendo Life Updated with Wargroove 2 and Disgaea 7. Enjoy! Strategy and tactics games by their very nature require deep thought and careful consideration, and many gamers these days often find it hard to embark on epic multi-hour campaigns in a single sitting. Planning a multi-turn offensive in a 4X game like Civilization…
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Valve bans then unbans Counter-Strike skin trader with a $1.5 million inventory and the highest Steam level in the world
[ad_1] Update: 02/10/2023: Subsequent to publication, the ban on St4ck’s account has been lifted. Valve has banned a prominent and somewhat controversial Counter-Strike skin trader, St4ck, whose account boasts one of the most high-value inventories you’ll ever see: by some estimates it is the third most-valuable CS skin haul out there. Pricing stuff in CS…
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Valve level designer returns to Twitter after lengthy absence to reveal he used a pot to add handles to an electrical box in Counter-Strike
[ad_1] Magnar Jenssen is a level designer with serious pedigree, starting his career at Grin before stints at Starbreeze, Avalanche, and then from 2013 onwards working for Valve. This was an auspicious year for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, with the Winter Offensive update in December 2013 adding two new maps to the game, Cobblestone and…
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Box Art Brawl – Duel: Actraiser
[ad_1] Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. Europe / North America Image: Enix Okay, so we love the minimalism on display here. The pyramids on the horizon against a fierce thunderstorm are just *chef’s kiss*. It’s very rare, particularly nowadays, to…
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Random: Star Fox Dev Thinks Star Fox Adventures “Was Too British”
[ad_1] Image: Nintendo The Star Fox series has been a bit of a mixed bag, hasn’t it? There have been huge genre shifts, recreations, and attempts to capture that same magic that the SNES original — and the N64 sequel — captured. Now, in an interview with VGC, Dylan Cuthbert, a programmer on the original…
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Rtings latest OLED monitor burn-in tests are not good news for Samsung
[ad_1] Rtings is four months and about 2,000 hours into its OLED PC monitor burn-in testing and the results so far do not look good for monitors with Samsung’s QD-OLED panels. Admittedly, Rtings only has three monitors on test, two with Samsung QD-OLED tech and one with LG WOLED tech. But both of the Samsung-equipped…
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Twitter sleuths suggest a new Steam Deck is on its way, but any updates are likely to be for Valve’s benefit not ours
[ad_1] Valve is well known for keeping any information about its hardware plans very tightly under wraps, to the point where you might as well hire the world’s best psychic to forecast when something new is on its way. But never underestimate the sheer diligence of tech enthusiasts, especially the likes of Brad Lynch, who’s…
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Nintendo's New York Store Announces Super Mario Bros. Wonder Pre-Launch Celebration
[ad_1] More details will be revealed soon. We’re now just weeks out from the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the Switch and in the lead-up to this, Nintendo’s New York Store has announced it will be hosting a special “pre-launch celebration” ahead of the game’s midnight launch. Nintendo says it will be an…
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage: How to upgrade weapons and outfits
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[ad_1] As with other Assassin’s Creeds, weapons and outfits are upgradable in Assassin’s Creed Mirage. There are three tiers to unlock per item, which improve the item’s perks as you go, and you can change their appearance. Dyes can be found and used to mix your outfits up if you get tired of boring old…
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History unfortunately repeats itself as Telltale Games lays off ‘most’ of its staff
[ad_1] Telltale Games has laid off an unknown portion of its staff, in an unfortunate deja vu moment for a handful of its employees. Word of the layoffs first began circulating when Jonah Huang, a former cinematic artist for the developer, published a series of tweets that claimed Telltale had let go “most” of its…