Month: January 2025

Rocket League was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2015, and two years later it shows no signs of slowing down. The unorthodox sports game is a mix of soccer and vehicular acrobatics that’s immediately engaging, but a high skill ceiling ensures that you can put hundreds of hours into Rocket League online and continue to improve your control over car and ball alike. In our original review, editor Miguel Concepcion said “the promising concept of combining two wonderful things–cars and soccer–is equally magnificent in execution.” It’s unique, it’s complex, and now that it’s on the Nintendo Switch, it’s wonderfully portable.

Rocket League makes the leap to handheld courtesy of developer Panic Button, the same team responsible for the respectable Switch port of Doom. And similar to that conversion, Rocket League’s visuals have been somewhat stripped down to maintain a steady frame rate under the Switch’s hardware limitations. The impact of the downgraded visuals can be seen in jagged edges and fluctuating texture resolutions, but unlike a game that relies on a world to set the stage for characters and narrative events, Rocket League’s Switch scars are easily overlook…

Life’s not easy when you’re a wannabe Lothario and rogue but your day job is being the galaxy’s most reliable (and poorly behaved) freight hauler Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Sure, you get to kick up your boots in some of the most disreputable dive bars on the galaxy’s outer ring, and you could cut the sexual tension between you and your boss–a wealthy and nearly immortal shipping magnate–with a butter knife, but you also have to push your freighter at breakneck speeds through the galaxy’s most congested shipping lanes and protect your bounty from greedy pirates and even greedier tax men. But, hey… it’s a living.

These are the worlds and emotions and possibilities shimmering on the surface of Switch Galaxy Ultra, a hyperkinetic arcade racer from British developer Atomicom Limited. And though the tantalizing backgrounds and universe that the game inhabits are never fully capitalized on, SGU takes you on a top-speed adventure with the potential to be a welcome retro throwback. Unfortunately, troubling glitches and repetition keep it from crossing its own finish line.

SGU follows the adventures of Vinc…

After seven years on the market, 146 million systems, and more than 1 billion games sold, Nintendo is finally gearing up to announce its next piece of hardware. In this post, we’re rounding up everything we know about the Switch 2–or whatever the next console is called–and what’s been speculated about the next system from Nintendo. There has been quite a lot of news about the next Nintendo console lately.

Nintendo has made multiple announcements lately, including an alarm clock and a music app, but there hasn’t been any official word on the Switch 2. In place of official announcements have come rumors and leaks, and those are heating up of late. In the past week, images purporting to be of the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons have emerged online, showing a more ergonomic design and not much deviation from the existing Switch. One Chinese retailer is selling screen protectors and carrying cases for the Switch 2, and these could contain clues about the form factor and size of the Switch 2. They also might be totally fake or speculative.

This post covers the system’s potential form factor, rumors about the the Switch 2 release date, price…

Move over, College Football 25: it’s World of Warcraft’s turn to partner with college athletes in a crossover we never saw coming. Blizzard has announced a new partnership with the University of Washington in which the college will become the University of Warcraft for a week in the lead up to the Washington Huskies’ home finale against UCLA.

UW Football is collaborating with WoW to promise a “one-of-a-kind in-stadium experience” on Friday, with World of Warcraft mascots leading the team onto the field, a fan zone offering character meet-and-greets, and unique visuals for the stadium video board Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Blizzard has also revealed a unique logo for its University of Warcraft collaboration, and has promised more unique WoW-themed graphics leading up to the game.

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