Rollback netcode has also been confirmed.
Mortal Kombat 1 got announced by Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios yesterday, and the good news is it’s launching for Nintendo Switch on 19th September 2023.
The brutal and bloody trailer helped set the scene for this new era in the iconic fighting series, but there’s also an FAQ on the official game website revealing one other interesting detail – Kameo Fighters.
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Releasing on 26th May.
Nintendo has announced a new batch of games for the Switch Online service. The latest additions are part of the expansion tier – adding three Super Mario Game Boy Advance titles to the service.
The games included are Super Mario Advance (2001), Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (2001) and Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002). They’ll be arriving next week on 26th May and include some additional ‘Advance’ features.
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Hyrule is a beautiful landscape full of unique puzzles and characters. However, it’s also filled to the brim with danger. If you’re not careful you can easily stumble into an enemy encampment you are absolutely not prepared for and get wrecked. Sometimes it’s hard just to stay alive in Tears of the Kingdom.
Fortunately, there are quite a few things in the game to help Link survive. If you’re hoping to increase your combat prowess and survivability in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, read on for 5 helpful tips. You can also check out our full guide of tips and tricks for more assistance.
One of the most obvious ways to decrease your chances to die is to acquire more heart containers. You can accomplish this by focusing on finding as many Shrine locations as possible and completing the puzzles within. Once you have enough Light of Blessing to adequately increase your health to a more reasonable level, Link should be able to take a few more hits without immediately crumbling.
Although you can also choose to increase your stamina capacity, it’s probably best to focus on expanding your hearts first. You can always supplement your stamina with meals and elixirs if needed.
Another great way to increase your chances of survival is to find armor in Tears of the Kingdom that offers better protection than the Archaic set. Although there is a lot of different types of armor you’ll discover as you make your way through the main story quests, you should be able to find The Royal Guard uniform pretty early on in Hyrule Castle.
There’s an early quest called Crisis at Hyrule Castle that will lead you near this armor, and it offers an additional 4 defense that can help increase your survival rate immensely.
One of Link’s new abilities is great for increasing your combat prowess directly. Fuse allows you to turn even a simple stick into a decent weapon you can actually fight with. However, it can be easy to forget that you can do more than just Fuse melee weapons. Adding additional capabilities to your shield and arrows can greatly increase your combat prowess without having to get up close and personal.
Arrows for example can be fused with Keese Eyes to create homing arrows that can better hit distant targets. You can also fuse your shield with a Flame Emitter to create a flamethrower that also blocks attacks. You could also go as far as fusing a rocket to your shield to activate as a quick escape.
One of Link’s greatest advantages is that he can cook up a storm. With the best recipes and elixirs, you can increase your attack power, defense rating, and even temporarily increase your heart capacity. You’ll need to locate the correct ingredients and find the right combinations, but once you do, these meals and elixirs can greatly increase your chance to survive tough encounters.
For some guidance on what to make, you can check out our guide to recipes in Tears of the Kingdom as well as this list of helpful elixirs.
Ultrahand is the first ability you get in Tears of the Kingdom, and it is arguably the most versatile. Although it is mostly used for solving puzzles and building machines, you can also utilize it in combat pretty effectively. Similar to the Magnesis ability in Breath of the Wild, you can use Ultrahand to pick up heavy things and drop them on enemies. You can also build some pretty devastating combat machines using Zonai devices.
Utilizing the Ultrahand ability in combat does take some forethought and strategy, but if you start effectively incorporating it, you should be able to take on tougher opponents without having to fight them directly.
Looking for more tips? Check out our full Tears of the Kingdom Wiki Guide or dive into our suggestions for what to do first in the game.
Ergotron make some of the best monitor arms around – reliable, capable and generally brilliant – but they’re also pretty pricey. That’s probably why Amazon hit up Ergotron to make its Amazon Basics monitor arms, which offer the same excellent quality in unbranded form for considerably less money.
Today though one of these arms is even better value than usual, as there’s a ridiculous 40% off voucher available on Amazon’s take on the Ergotron LX, dropping this high-end monitor arm from £81 to just £49. That’s a brilliant price for an arm that can support monitors up to 11kg in weight with full tilt, swivel, rotation and height adjustability.
Free is free and spooky shooter Metro: Last Light is currently free to keep from Steam. It has been made available by developers 4A Games in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The catch, sort of, is that this is the Complete Edition, a version that does not normally even show up in Steam search results. The slightly-improved Metro: Last Light Redux will still cost you a few quid or bucks.
BWAAAH!
We had a good time with Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope when it was released on the Switch in late 2022, and the game has just been recognised for its excellent soundtrack at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards, where it took home the prize for Best Original Video Game Score.
The award was presented to Gareth Coker, Grant Kirkhope and Yoko Shimomura for their work on the project, with Kirkhope releasing the following tweet to express his gratitude.
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Supraland: Six Inches Under wasn’t really meant to exist—at least not like this.
Initially conceived as a DLC pack for the puzzle-filled sandbox adventure Supraland, creator David Münnich and his team improvised, experimented, re-scoped, and re-envisioned Six Inches Under into a bigger, fully standalone follow-up designed for anyone to dig into, whether they’ve played the first game or not. What’s even better, that creation is available to play starting today on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and through Xbox Game Pass!
If you’re wondering whether Supra Games’ latest little big adventure is for you, here are five facets of Six Inches Under’s design that should help you decide.
Like the original, Six Inches Under is a first-person 3D “metroidvania”—a unified world filled with paths to discover, and secrets or sub-areas that can only be accessed once you return with a new ability or item.
Unlike the original, Six Inches Under takes place underground, and as such, the vibe’s a little different. Paths are more defined and distinct: caves and corridors connected by a central hub called Cagetown, where all the toy-people survivors of the dreadful Rakening dwell.
The developers characterize the game as “55% exploration, 40% solving puzzles, and 5% combat,” to give you a breakdown. Now on to that other 45%…
In the world of Six Inches Under, you’re always on the lookout for puzzles—and you’ll quickly find yourself thinking of the environment, your abilities, and even physics itself as a puzzle-solving tool. To help with the design of the puzzles, creator and lead dev David Münnich concocted 13 rules as a guideline, which doubled as a 13-point “checklist” to help him and his team determine whether a puzzle was good or not.
David awards points for puzzles where players set the goal themselves without being told it directly, or puzzles that use a mechanic players are familiar with in an unexpected new way. The puzzle gets more points if players can quickly execute the solution once they have their “Aha!” moment, or if the result is more interesting than a door opening or an elevator turning on. For David, a good puzzle scores around 8–10, and anything above that is rare. (And he’s a stickler; the best puzzles in Six Inches Under top out at 12.)
In another directional shift from the original game, you’ll encounter enemies to fight in Six Inches Under, but here they’re hanging out away from the puzzles—that way, they won’t get in your way when you’re focused on figuring out how to fix that lever to connect that battery to power that machinery behind that fence that you’re not quite sure how to get through yet.
And sometimes, the combat is a puzzle of its own too, as you use your pickaxe and other combat tools and abilities in creative ways—but as with any good puzzle, it’s more fun if you figure those out for yourself.
You can make it to the finish line of the “main quest” pretty quickly—but once the end credits roll, that signals a whole new beginning. Whole new areas open up to explore full of secrets and surprises. In fact, some of Six Inches Under’s most challenging and rewarding puzzles are entirely optional…including at least one of the team’s rare 12-point-ers. (Hint: Look for the showerhead on the beach.)
Six Inches Under began its life as a project intended to get the Supra Games team up to speed for Supra Games’ next major now-in-development game (and full-on sequel) Supraworld. It quickly turned into a place to experiment, test, and run ideas through the wringer. The result was something unexpected: a content-packed game worthy of standing on its own as something not quite an expansion, not quite a sequel, and infused with the creative spirit indie-developed games are known for.
Supraland: Six Inches Under is out today. Buy it for Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S, or play it on Xbox Game Pass.
Humble Games
Unearth what’s beneath the surface in Six Inches Under, a new first-person Supraland adventure full of puzzles, exploration, fun secrets to discover, hundreds of gags, and two funny ones!
In the miniature world, the dreaded Rakening has scattered the townspeople of Superland six whole inches below the surface of the sandbox! Fulfill your toybox fantasies as a brave Blue Plumber and use your skill and ingenuity to survive and rescue your fellows. You may be small—but this is bound to be one big adventure.
Underworld exploration
Unearth a connected underworld of toys who’ve survived past calamities. The caverns are filled with secrets to discover and new areas to uncover—once you’ve acquired the right tools and abilities to access them.
First-person puzzling
Solve problems in the environment with brains (and occasional brawn). Use skillful platforming to find secrets and hard to reach areas, and harness the power of physics to find creative ways to overcome obstacles.
It’s a small world
For the people of Supraland, little things make a big difference. Turn a matchstick into the lever that opens a door or a torch that ignites an obstacle. Power mighty machines with the latest AAA battery technology, cross cracks the size of chasms, and walk (literally!) on the razor’s edge.
A great place to dig in
Six Inches Under is a content-packed standalone follow-up (and not quite a sequel) to the original Supraland, designed for everyone! You can delve straight in and have a blast without having played the original.
More Supraland to love
If you dug the original Supraland, you’ll discover tons more of the puzzle-solving, metroidvania-style exploration you loved—plus more skills, a novel new approach to combat, more optional activities, and an original new soundtrack.
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If you’ve started compiling a collection of digital games, you probably already know just how limited the Switch’s base storage capacity. The Switch and Switch OLED have 32GB and 64GB of internal storage respectively. Some of that is reserved for the OS. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom takes up over 18GB of storage all by itself. Other must-have titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Pokemon Sword or Shield tap out at 13.5GB each. There’s only one expansion slot in the Switch console so you want to make sure you get the biggest card you can afford.
These Micro SDXC cards are 100% compatible with any Nintendo Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite console. Some of them may be rated for higher speeds than the official Nintendo Switch branded memory cards. That doesn’t really matter though; the Nintendo Switch can only support U1 speeds, so a U3 speed will just be throttled back down to U1 speeds.
The Switch isn’t the only gaming system that accepts these cards. If you’re a Steam Deck owner, you can also use this card, especially if you picked up the 64GB storage option.
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The latest Humble Games Showcase aired today, where its publishing arm decided to spotlight some games on the way this year and beyond. If you missed it, no worries; here’s a recap of all the games Humble showed today, including Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical.
Today’s showcase gave us more insight into Stray Gods: the Roleplaying Musical ahead of its August 3 release date. Originally named Chorus: An Adventure Musical before being renamed, Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is an RPG musical where players control a young woman who inherits the powers of the Last Muse in Greek Mythology named Grace.
As part of a new partnership with animation studio and developer Exit 73, #BLUD is a new dungeon crawler launching sometime next year on PC. Players assume the role of Becky Brewsyer as she balances school friends, and slaying monsters.
A sequel to 2018’s Wizard of Legend, Wizard of Legend 2 is an indie roguelike that will support four-player online co-op. Dead Mage is developing Wizard of Legend 2. While not the original game’s developers, Contingent 99 is offering guidance to the studio.
Developed by Squid Shock Studios, Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is a 2D Metroidvania platformer where players control Bō, a Celestial Blossom that can shapeshift. Similiar to Clover Studio’s Okami, Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus’ world and sotry is based on Japanese folklore and is slated to launch on PC in 2024.
If you ever wanted to play as a Corgi with weather power, Breeze in the Clouds is right up your alley. Players control Breeze, a corgi that is using his newfound power to fight pollution. There is no release date yet, but today’s showcase gave us an interview with the game’s developer, SrBilyon, along with a colorful new trailer.
Cataclismo is a fortress-building RTS game developed by Digital Sun, the same developer that created Moonlighter and The Mageseeker. Cataclismo will have you building fortresses as you fend off waves of enemies and lead an expedition as you try to rebuild humanity one stone at a time. Digital Sun has yet to announce a release date for Cataclismo.
A co-op survival adventure game by Bossa Games, Lost Skies is set in a vast sky filled with floating islands. With support for up to six players, Lost Skies tasks players with finding and crafting their own skyship by using ancient technology and fending off enemies they may encounter.
A metroidvania set in the first-person perspective. Supraland: Six Inches Under initially launched last year on PC. But today’s showcase confirmed a shadow release for PlayStation and Xbox consoles, with the game also available in the Xbox Game Pass library.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
A sequel to Hawken was certainly not on my 2023 bingo card. Five years after the multiplayer mech FPS shut down on PC, now requiring a fan-made fix even just to play offline against bots, I didn’t expect to ever again dash around its cool sci-fi cityscapes as a charmingly scrappy little stomper. So I was excited when publishers 505 Games announced singleplayer follow-up Hawken Reborn on Monday then launched it into early access two days later. Having now played it, oh dear. You know, it’s okay for the dead to stay dead.
