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Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Switch 2 Supposedly “Unplayable” For Some Players After Repeated Crashes

"I'm waiting for an update, it's impossible to play".Apart from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, one other significant Switch 2 release this week was the third-party title Assassin's Creed Shadows. While Ubisoft's new feudal Japan outing has been mostly well-received by critics on Nintendo's new hybrid platform, it seems the experience ...
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What’s on your bookshelf: Santa Ragione co-founder and Saturnalia director Pietro Righi Riva

Hello reader who is also a reader! Today marks the sad and glorious return of Booked for the Week, our reliably irregular Sunday column in which games people talk about books. It’s sad because the original creator of this column, arch word baron Nic Reuben, is no longer full time ...
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It’s intrigue, not action, that makes Atomfall such a compelling Lake District trip gone wrong

Today’s advent calendar hails, in both setting and make, from the RPS homeland of the United Kingdom. Which means, like most of RPS, it’ll probably spend Christmas predominantly unconscious, driven into a coma by a combination of tiredness, pigs in blankets overreach, and acute exposure to King Charles. Best play ...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Metroid Prime Pinball

Ding ding ding!It has been a particularly Metroid-packed week, and we're keeping that Morph Ball rolling in the latest edition of Box Art Brawl.Before we do that, however, let's recap what happened last time. Celebrating the arrival of its Game Boy counterpart on NSO, we matched up three covers for ...
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Video: Mario Kart World – Course Changes Side-By-Side Comparison (Original & Version 1.4.0 Update)

Spot the difference.Earlier this week, Nintendo released a new update for the Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World, bumping the racer up to Version 1.4.0.In case you missed it, this is a major update, including all sorts of adjustments, changes and improvements. One highlight, in particular, is tied to ...
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Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 529: Sumptuous Victuals

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, y’all! Sid, Tim, Brett, and Kristen are back this week after the Thanksgiving holiday, and diving right into Arc Raiders and Ghost of Yōtei NG+. Stuff We Talked About
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Rhythm Doctor Review

When you sit down with a game, you make a pact with it: you’ll push the buttons, and it will show you what happens when you do. A lot of games don’t really care to interrogate what that means, to use the physical realities of the medium to tell a ...
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Embark dishes on all the goodies you’ll get in Arc Raiders if you choose to prestige later this month

The eternal problem with online shooters of any flavour that has some variation on a levelling system, is that eventually you run out of room, and can't progress any more. That's why so many of them essentially allow you to reset your levels, or to prestige as it's often colloquially ...
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About Fishing is a game about eating curly fries with your grandpa and yes, fishing, until it isn’t

Video games have a tendency to be very impatient in a way that I think often makes for a worse experience. Constant rewards of many flavours push us to chase after the next challenge, there's not nearly enough games that ask us to slow down. That's why I love a ...
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Percy Jackson Is Headed to Fortnite

Percy Jackson is coming to Fortnite. The popular series, based on the novels by Rick Riordan and now streaming on Disney+, was just announced to be getting its very own Fortnite Island on December 9. Revealed on stage at CCXP25 in Brazil, Percy Jackson: Siege of Monsters will allow players ...
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