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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Kirby's Quiet Famitsu Debut Is Bigger Than It Looks
The number at the bottom of this week's Famitsu most wanted chart is doing the quiet work: Kirby and the World Beyond enters at #26 in its first…
Elta: Defy All Gods Runs at 40 FPS on Steam Deck — Barely
The performance numbers in this Elta: Defy All Gods demo preview tell a more interesting story than the combat does. Low preset. Roughly 60%…
Rayman Legends Retold Delayed: Why December Suits Handhelds
Rayman Legends Retold has landed in a rare class of Ubisoft delay: the one that admits the game is already finished. The remake went gold, then got…
Super Mario Sunshine on Switch 2: Save States Fix It
Super Mario Sunshine is finally playable on a handheld without hunting down a GameCube, a memory card, and a CRT that still turns on. It's live on…
Hitman on Switch 2 Is the Comfort Game Handheld Was Built For
Agent 47 kills a corporate executive with an explosive rubber duck and walks away pretending nothing happened. That's the specific pleasure…
Spyro: A Realm Beyond Teases Arcadian Vale — And a Switch 2 Debut
Toys For Bob didn't hand us a trailer for Spyro's 28th birthday. It handed us concept art of a valley — cascading waterfalls, weathered monuments, a…
Rare Says No to Banjo-Kazooie Pitches; Handheld Hope Lives On
Rare has been saying no to Banjo-Kazooie revivals for so long that composer Grant Kirkhope now measures hope in fractions. He tells FRVR that roughly…
Orbitals on Switch 2: Derivative Co-op That Still Shines Handheld
Orbitals is the kind of game that makes you want to call a friend and clear your schedule. Shapefarm's two-player co-op adventure borrows heavily…
Mega Man Dual Override: An Override Gamble Built for Handhelds
Mega Man's been off the mainline classic circuit for nearly a decade, so when the Override meter filled up during my Gamescom demo, the Blue Bomber…
Shantae Bundle: 9 Female-Led Steam Deck Games Worth Your Money
Humble's Shantae and Heroic Heroines Bundle is a love letter to the platformer's long handheld history — and to every Steam Deck owner who grew up…
How Donkey Kong Bananza Tunes Sound to Switch 2's Joy-Con Shake
Donkey Kong Bananza's Drumbeat is an audio event, not just a transformation animation. The sound designer behind it explained on Nintendo's…