To A T review

You are a thirteen year old stuck in the shape of a T, arms aloft forever – what do you do? Well, in To A T, you simply go on living your everyday life. This kid-friendly town explorer is both a low-stakes comic adventure and a commentary on living contentedly with a disability despite daily struggles. As the only T-posing kid in school, you are also the target of three bullies, whose mockery and mimickry give your teen pause before heading out the door to school. This is mainly a story of how those bullies come to understand your troubles and appreciate some of your more far-fetched abilities (turns out spinning very fast allows you to fly, like a helicopter – who knew!) But it also takes a dip into truly silly territory, becoming more of an outlandish movie and less of an actual “game” as things go on.

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PS5 Hit ‘Stellar Blade’ Is Reportedly In Consideration For The Switch 2

Stellar news.

Stellar Blade, one of the PS5’s most surprising success stories, is reportedly in consideration for the Switch 2.

According to PlayForum (thanks, VGC), developer Shift Up has secured a dev kit for the Switch 2 and has begun intial work for a supposed port of the game. The team has also gifted a whole bunch of Switch 2 units to its employees.

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Mattel Brings Mario Kart’s Pauline and Elvira to San Diego Comic-Con 2025

Mattel has revealed three new exclusive toys being sold at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, and there’s a definite theme to this year’s lineup. It’s all about girl power, whether you prefer the high-speed antics of Mario Kart’s Pauline or the dark energy of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at all three SDCC exclusives, and then scroll down to find out how you can acquire them for your collection:

Joining Mattel’s growing lineup of Mario Kart toys, Pauline depicts the iconic mayor of New Donk City riding her pink Badwagon kart. The toy comes packaged inside a special display box.

Elvira, meanwhile, is the latest addition to Mattel’s popular Monster High line of dolls. The Monster High Skullector Elvira comes with a faux-leather dress and is based on the likeness of actress Cassandra Peterson. You can even see Peterson posing with the doll in the gallery above.

Finally, also joining the Monster High line is Sweet Screams Twyla. This doll includes an appropriately cotton candy-themed outfit and even comes with a cotton candy-scented bunny companion.

“This lineup of collectibles salutes the fearless, fashion-forward and cherished female characters that continue to break boundaries,” said Nick Karamanos, senior vice president, Mattel Creations & Entertainment Partnerships at Mattel, in a statement. “From gothic glam to gaming icons, these collectibles honor the fan-favorite heroines from the franchises our fans know and love.”

All three items will be sold at SDCC 2025, which runs from July 24-27. Mattel will have an exhibit at Booth #3029, though the toys themselves can be purchased at Mattel merchandise booth (#2945). Select quantities of Pauline and Twyla will also be made available on the Mattel Creations website after the show, but Elvira will strictly be sold in-person at SDCC.

In other SDCC exclusive news, Hasbro recently revealed an exclusive Marvel Legends Savage Land set.

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Steam’s Next Fests have grown into humongous battle royales, and June 2025’s was no different

The best thing about Steam’s Next Fests nowadays is that there are so many games. The most terrifying thing about Steam’s Next Fests nowadays is that there are so damn many games. It’s no surprise then, that according to calculations by developer Chris Hanney and the GameDiscoverCo newsletter, the latest summer Next Fest continued a trend of substantial year-on-year demo number growth.

Hanney, a dev on Space Pirate Trainer and Shredders among others, has had a go at pulling the numbers on the numbers of demos uploaded to Steam during each next fest running back to 2019’s Game Awards-adjacent first edition.

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Maker of New Terminator 2 Video Game Tracked Down Actor Who Played Future War John Connor Back in 1991 to Include His Likeness

If you’re making a Terminator video game, you ideally want to be able to include Arnold Schwarzenegger in all his glory. That, however, isn’t always possible. Why? The developer of an upcoming Terminator video game has offered an explanation.

Terminator 2D: No Fate, due out this September, is a retro game based on 1991 action masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It features iconic characters from the movie, such as John and Sarah Connor, the T-1000 and the T-800. Check out gameplay and comments from the developers at Bitmap Bureau in the video below.

But while Terminator 2D: No Fate does feature the T-1000 and the T-800 characters, it does not feature Arnie’s likeness. Speaking to IGN, publisher Reef Entertainment explained why, and in the process lifted the lid on how licenses like these tend to work for video games.

Reef, with the Terminator 2 license to play with, has the rights to use the characters from the movie such as Sarah and John Connor, and on top of that, it has image rights for certain actors who have provided those rights to Studio Canal, which owns the rights to the first two Terminator films, as part of the agreement.

But the rights to use the Terminator itself does not include the rights to use Arnie’s likeness. That’s why Terminator 2D: No Fate uses the endoskeleton for character artwork, rather than Arnie’s likeness.

As well as all that, Reef got in touch with Michael Edwards, the actor who played General John Connor in the iconic opening of Terminator 2, to do a likeness deal for the video game. Terminator 2D: No Fate includes gameplay that sees the player control future war John Connor in a fight against the machines, fleshing out that brief opening scene in the movie into an entire section of the video game.

In the movie, you only see Edwards’ John Connor for a few seconds, but those seconds are memorable indeed; his heavily scarred face and steely gaze looking out over the battlefield tell us he’s seen and done all sorts in humanity’s desperate struggle for survival against the machines. So Reef reached out separately to the 80-year-old actor to do a deal.

(It turns out that in 2021, Edwards reprised the role of John Connor in a fan-made Terminator film called Skynet.)

In short: there’s a difference between signing the Terminator 2 license and having the agreement to use the characters, compared to the actor’s likeness, which is separate.

This isn’t to say it is impossible to get Arnie’s likeness for use in video games. After all, Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm has managed it multiple times, most recently for Mortal Kombat 1’s DLC character Conan the Barbarian. Before that, NetherRealm managed to get Arnie for the Terminator T-800 DLC character in Mortal Kombat 11. But there’s a gulf between the scope of a game like Terminator 2D: No Fate and the Warner Bros.-backed Mortal Kombat series.

And it’s worth noting that while NetherRealm’s Arnie likeness is in, a soundalike voice actor (Chris Cox) was used for his lines. It doesn’t look like the 77-year-old Schwarzenegger is in the business of doing video game voice work.

Here’s Reed Entertainment’s comment to IGN on how all this works in full:

Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t in the game it’s just a T800. We didn’t have his license, unfortunately. But for the rest, you have to ask each actor individually to use his portrait.

What we have is the right to use the characters. So like Sarah, John, T1000, T800, and then certain actors will also provide image rights to Studio Canal, which is included in the agreement. For example; Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor, which is why you can see Linda at the beginning of the trailer. Whereas our right to use the Terminator itself, it doesn’t include Arnold. When you see the character artwork for that, you’ll see it’s like the Terminator itself rather than Arnold. It’s basically the endoskeleton that we have the right to use.

Michael Edwards played the future war version of John in the opening of T2. You see him, he lowers his binoculars, he’s looking over the battlefield. Someone like that, we reached out separately to him to include his likeness. There’s a definite difference between signing the T2 license and having the agreement to use the characters compared to the actor’s likeness, which is separate.

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Troleu’s demo is for anyone who’s ever wanted to physically kick someone out of a moving bus

There is no option in bus conducting sim Troleu to warn fake pass holders or ask them to leave. You simply exit the conversation and immediately start booting them unconscious, then open the nearest door and either toss or kick them out, at which point they fly off down the street like a crisp packet in a gale. Here’s a link to a Steam page with the demo. Have a great day.

Sometimes, passengers enter the bus with the sole goal of assaulting you. You do a little punching minigame, and boot them off down the street too.

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Elden Ring Nightreign Player Discovers There’s a Maximum Number of Relics You Can Store

Relics are the potent items that can give your Nightfarer an extra boost on every run of Elden Ring Nightreign. There is also, as it turns out, a limit on just how many you can have stored up in your hideaway.

One user on the r/Nightreign subreddit posted an image from their Elden Ring Nightreign game today, with a special message appearing over their attempts to start an expedition. “Cannot launch expedition: Too many relics in possession,” read the message. “Please use the relic rite menu to sell off spares.”

The user u/Scufozzover1 didn’t specify exactly how many they had, only ball-parking an estimate of “upwards of 1000 maybe.” It’s easy to theorize this might be related to a general 999 item limit, but unless you’d like to grind out that many relics, it’s unclear where the limit actually is.

There are plenty of reasons to clear out your relic storage, mostly for resources. Though if you’re just playing run after run of Elden Ring Nightreign I could see losing track of just how many you’ve accrued.

Comments in the thread have brought up an old critique of Elden Ring Nightreign: the need for relic management. As more relics flood in, it can become a little difficult to keep track of what’s what, or adding additional filters that could better sift through the pile.

It’s already a bit of a hassle for me now, as I’ve built up a decent stockpile of basic relics, so I can’t imagine what it’s like for this Redditor and their apparent hundreds upon hundreds of relics. Maybe this won’t be an issue for most players now, but as the weeks and months of Nightreign roll on, it might be worth keeping an eye on. At the very least, it’s a good reminder to clean out your unused relics every now and then.

We’ve got plenty of Nightreign tips and tricks to help you take down all the eight Nightlord Bosses, and if you’re wondering how to unlock the two locked Nightfarer Classes, check out How to Unlock the Revenant and How to Unlock the Duchess, plus How to Change Characters.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

A rare and cursed Total War: Warhammer 3 item, bashier Blood Knights and a smaller file size are all here in the latest patch

Patch 6.2 is out now for Total War: Warhammer 3, and it continues the trend we’ve seen recently of pairing substantial and useful fixes for the strategy game with seemingly niche and (to me) incredibly interesting things, and also has vampire knights with swords in it. Stop trying to make me excited about your videogame again, you dastards. Took me months to wean myself off of it in preparation for the very sweaty week I’ve got planned when Tides Of Torment releases.

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Minecraft’s Nintendo Players Request “Switch 2 Edition” After Graphics Update Skips Switch

“We need a Switch 2 version”.

As you might recall, earlier this year Mojang lifted the lid on a new visual graphics upgrade for Minecraft known as ‘Vibrant Visuals’.

It’s now officially released this update alongside its new ‘Chase the Skies’ drop, but as many Nintendo players have noted, there’s no sign of the new visual refresh in the Switch trailer.

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Poll: So, Have You Used Zelda Notes Yet?

Nintendo’s new mobile service for Hyrule.

Alongside the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2, Nintendo added a special service to its mobile app called Zelda Notes – giving players multiple features to enhance their time in Hyrule.

This service includes navigation assistance, voice memories, autobuild sharing, item sharing, and much more. In our review here on Nintendo Life, we couldn’t help but feel a lot of these useful features should have been implemented in-game, but it’s now got us wondering how everyone else is finding this optional extra a few weeks later.

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