Wario's Game Boy Roots Explain Nintendo's Musk Discomfort
Elon Musk in a Wario suit should have been forgotten by lunchtime. Five years later, two of Nintendo's former senior marketing leads are still…
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Xbox Teases New Handheld as Game Pass Economics Shift
Asha Sharma told an Xbox town hall that the division has "started to return to growth" after a restructuring that cost more than 1,800 jobs — a claim…
FF7 Revelation's Key Disc Is a Warning Shot for Handhelds
If the disc inside your Final Fantasy 7 Revelation box only holds the opening chapter, it isn't really a physical edition — it's a download code with…
Handheld PC Prices Jump 40%: Now Laptops Want Your Cash
Forty percent. That is roughly how far the price of a formerly affordable handheld PC has climbed, per Rock Paper Shotgun's James Archer, who spent…
Steam Deck 2's Gainsborough APU: 16 RDNA 5 CUs Explained
Four and a half years after the original Steam Deck launched on TSMC's 7nm node, we finally have a plausible silicon target for its successor.…
Witcher 3 Remastered Tops Metacritic: The Handheld Angle
A 94 Metascore for an 11-year-old RPG is the kind of headline that normally means a publisher found a fresh way to charge you again for something…
The 10 NES Games Switch Online Won't Add — and What to Play Instead
Ten games. Not one of them obscure, and not one of them absent from Nintendo Switch Online because it's bad. Polygon's list of essential NES titles…
Nintendo's $4.5M Piracy Ruling Hits Handheld Emulation
Nintendo didn't need James Williams to show up to win. A US District Judge handed the company a $4.5 million (£3.4m) default judgment against the…
Bayonetta 4 Talk Is Cheap: Stellar Blade's Switch 2 Port Ships
Two of action gaming's most distinctive studios spent a Famitsu interview trading compliments, and buried inside the mutual admiration is the only…
AC Brotherhood's 20-Minute Loop Was Made for Handhelds
Every 20 minutes, one of the businesses Ezio has reopened across Rome kicks a small tribute your way — a passive-income trickle that rewards you for…
Switch 2's 256GB: A 200-Hour RPG and Diablo's 71GB Install
Diablo 4 lands on Switch 2 at 71 GB. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave asks for somewhere between 100 and 200 hours. Neither number is a scandal on its…
The Next Smash Bros. Needs Stages Built for Handheld Play
Every Smash Bros. speculation cycle burns its fuel on the roster, which is exactly why Nintendo Everything's stage wishlist for the next entry is the…