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What are you playing this weekend? 2026-10-23
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I don't know if it was officially confirmed as the final DLC, but that's what most people assume it is.
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What are you playing this weekend? 2026-10-23
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I don't know if it was officially confirmed as the final DLC, but that's what most people assume it is.
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What are you playing this weekend? 2026-10-23
Finished Super Robot Wars Y Anniversary Expansion Pack!
This was an odd expansion. It's a really good "alternate" final chapter for the game, adding a ton of things people were asking for in the base game - letting certain characters survive, a bunch of new combination attacks, Witch from Mercury S2 content, better closure for several story points.
But at the same time, the lack of proper integration with the base game really hurts it. How many people will enjoy going through the (very long) final chapter of the game, then jump into this DLC to go through variations of the same scenarios? I think that a mod that allows you you go straight from Chapter 6 into Anniversary Expansion Pack would be amazing and make for the best possible experience for someone playing this game for the first time.
Overall I really enjoyed SRWY. The base game is solid and fixes most of the issues I had with the previous game, the main cast is fantastic and there's a ton of great cross-series interactions. I think the DLCs are good, but a bit too pricy for what they offer so I don't recommend them unless you get them on a sale.
Haven't decided what I'll play next.... probably resuming Perennial Dusk: Kinsenka.
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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account
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The review chart is hilarious.
Doubt Sony or the developer expected this would happen.
Edit [May/04, 14h UTC]: Updated chart. More than 70k negative reviews already.
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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account
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So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.
It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.
Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there's a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.
And even if it was clearly written on all places, it's still a "too bad you didn't read the fine print, now you're past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game" situation which is very shitty. There's also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.
Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about it.
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New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"
Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:
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What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?
There's a lot of videos and articles like this one discussing how Stage 1-1 of Super Mario Bros for the NES is a cleverly designed tutorial for the core game mechanics.
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Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined
This controversy is pretty much "You're having fun in a different way from what we intended. This is not allowed so we blocked it.".
Which is a very "Nintendo" thing to do. But hopefully they'll change things in the future and give a "classic" option or something similar.
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Huge Nintendo Switch 2 Update Adds Handheld Mode Boost For Switch 1 Titles
That's a massive improvement in some games for those who play handheld. Probably should've been there from the start, but it's good that Nintendo finally implemented it.
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Playstation is currently down 7/24 (orig title: Is PlayStation Network Down Right Now? Players Report PSN Issues)
Hilarious timing for a 6h+ downtime/instability, with all the controversy about them killing physical games and lack of response from Sony.
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Digital Foundry is backing up the claims that Nintendo seems to be discouraging switch 2 development from third parties
The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.
Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.
This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.
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Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases
Like others said, it's not just Gen-Z.
Funny enough, the main reason I'm spending far less is not the shitty economy, but rather the gaming industry's push to kill physical copies.
I used to buy a lot of physical games at full price because they would be much harder to find later on, but if I'm forced to go with a digital copy this is no longer an issue, so I just let them sit on my wishlist until they're massively discounted.
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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account
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There's also the problem that they're clearly rushing this without much thought, they don't even have an answer to the obvious question of "what happens to people in regions not supported by PSN".
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Nintendo Switch 2 Disassembly and review under the microscope
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There's many reasons, here's a few examples:
As an example of the last one, I'm really curious to see a Joycon teardown so we can find out what kind of sticks they used and how likely it is for them to show drift problems in the future.
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What is your favorite Metroidvania?
Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.
All-time I think I'd still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.
Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don't let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).
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What is your favorite Metroidvania?
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If you didn't like Hollow Knight you probably won't like Silksong either.
The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.
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Universes Beyond is now MTG
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Crossover sets like Marvel, Final Fantasy or Assassin's Creed.
A lot of people dislike those sets, but so far you could ignore them depending on the format you played. From now onwards it'll likely be impossible to stay away from those if you want to play competitively.
Besides the overall dislike of this new "Fortnite the Gathering" world, there's also concerns of pricing, these sets so far have been more expensive than regular sets, and also even more product burnout - we're up to 6 major sets/year from the 4 we used to have not too long ago.
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Nintendo details all the new goodies of Nintendo Switch Online for Switch 2
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No, I'm the same. But I've been underwhelmed by most Switch 2 news. 🙁
Asides from the prices and the overuse of Game Key cards by 3rd party publishers there's nothing really negative on what they've announced.... but I'm also having a hard time naming something about it that really gets me hyped.
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Nintendo briefly opened a survey to ask players their opinion on digital and physical games – could there be changes after the negative response to Switch 2 Game Key Cards?
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It's a reasonable replacement/alternative for "code in a box" games.
The problem is that it's effectively replacing physical games on the Switch 2 - so far we have 80%+ of 3rd Party releases are using this model, and it's a significant downgrade for "true" physical - forces the customer to pay the "storage cost", requires internet access to install the game (not great from a handheld that should work everywhere), is bad for preservation since the game is not on cart.
Also, despite this being a low-cost alternative to carts some publishers are being extra-scummy and INCREASING the price - the Switch 2 version of Trails Beyond the Horizon is a good example, being $10 more than PS4/PS5/Switch 1 despite being effectively an "empty" cart.
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8BitDo’s controllers will work with the Switch 2 after a firmware update
Nice, I love my Ultimate and I'm glad it will also be usable if/when I get a Switch 2.
The company said more updates are coming soon.
Also nice to hear. Hope the Micro gets an update, I often use it for "low interaction" games like VNs and it's also good for small kids, my nieces really like it.
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The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing
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Nintendo probably uses more than one screen manufacturer.