It’s a big day for everyone who has successfully acquired their , but few hardware launches go off without a single hitch. In addition to some surprising to finishing the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, players have also discovered a compatibility problem in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The conditions for this issue to occur, luckily,…
The Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a one-year limited warranty that covers the cost of repairing unexpected defects, but any damage that falls outside that coverage will cost you. Avoiding that could be key, because based on Nintendo’s customer repair portal, paying to fix a Switch 2 is noticeably more expensive than repairing an older…
As for our review impressions so far — our senior reviewer Sam Rutherford is hard at work putting our official full review together, but he’s been updating this liveblog with his evaluations today. He noted that, based on his lightmeter’s readings, the Switch 2’s display goes up to 450 nits with ambient brightness enabled, and…
Virtual and augmented reality are still pretty new frontiers with a lot of potentially cool ideas yet to be developed. The latest product in the mixed reality space could be coming from a startup called Dopple Works. reported that the secrecy-shrouded business from Etsy co-founder and former CEO Robert Kalin is working on a new…
The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally a thing you can buy in the US — or at least, a thing you can try to buy. The $450 console officially went up for sale at midnight ET on June 5, with numerous retailers offering the device both online and in-store. Predictably, online stock dried up fairly…
Maybe you’ve , or you’ve refreshed furiously at the risk of breaking your F5 key, but tomorrow you are finally getting your hands on the . After tearing it open and booting it up, you might quickly realize that the console’s functionality out of the box is basically non-existent. You have just purchased a very…
As if early June wasn’t already going to be a wild enough time in the gaming world with the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, that’s also when a whole host of showcases takes place as part of Summer Game Fest. Along with three main events — Sony State of Play, Summer Game Fest Live…
The Voxel Agents has significantly expanded its indie hit game, The Gardens Between, and has remade it for virtual reality. It has debuted the new version of the time-bending puzzler at the Shacknews E4 Indie Showcase, which featured 15 game developers showing off content for their upcoming titles. The new game, now called Hidden Memories…
Reddit had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company behind the Claude chatbot has been using its data for years without permission. The lawsuit comes after Reedit has increasingly taken a hardline stance against scrapers and companies that use its data to train AI models. In their filing, Reddit alleges that Anthropic…
Epic has yet to find a platform it hasn’t wanted to put Fortnite on — only ones it wasn’t allowed to put the game on — so its not surprising the developer is going all out with the Nintendo Switch 2. Not only will the Switch 2 version of Fortnite support both graphical and performance…