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Reports said Nintendo might announce a new Switch Pro soon. As of this year’s virtual E3, it still hasn’t happened. And, maybe, that should have been expected all along. Nintendo’s four-year-old-plus Switch hardware still doesn’t have a successor yet. The relatively low-key E3 edition of Nintendo Direct was full of games, including WarioWare, a new 2D …

Microsoft used its Xbox E3 livestreamed event Sunday to talk about most of the games we wanted to hear about: Starfield, Halo Infinite, Stalker 2 and even Diablo II Remastered. But what was especially interesting was how many of the games mentioned by the Xbox team at E3 2021 are coming to Xbox Game Pass, the console, PC and cloud game-subscription …

This year’s E3 PC Gaming Show hurled trailer after trailer of upcoming (and some already available) games at us, though as you’d expect there weren’t many hotly anticipated games. Premieres included: Citizen Sleeper, a complex but cool-looking survival RPG where you’re going to be put out of commission by An Evil Company. Tinykin, an utterly adorbs 3D platformer we won’t …

Like nearly every other big industry show or public gathering over the past 15 months, the 2021 E3 video game trade show is happening virtually. The 2020 version of the event, which is usually held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, didn’t even make it that far. It was unceremoniously canceled shortly after COVID-19 shutdowns started.  This year, E3 is …

Gaming hardware maker Razer is trying to cash in on the market for higher-end headphones with its $99 wireless Opus X headset announced Friday. The headphones feature active noise cancelation to block outside noise. That’s the feature that commands a price premium on headphones from Sony, Bose and Apple. There’s also a quick attention mode that lets ambient sound through …

Capping off the Summer Game Fest’s live kickoff event ahead of E3 2021 on Thursday, Elden Ring, one of the most anticipated games from E3 2019, finally has a new official trailer and a release date: Jan. 21, 2022. Elden Ring is a collaboration between Dark Souls developer FromSoftware and Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin. The game’s director Hidetaka …

Despite what some headline writers would have you believe, Microsoft has not suddenly announced a new Xbox streaming stick. In a pre-E3 streamed briefing for journalists, Microsoft’s Xbox head Phil Spencer, CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs talked more generally about the plans for getting more Xbox games in front of more people in new and different ways.  My …

The Playdate, a long-promised black-and-white indie gaming handheld created by Panic, the developer of Untitled Goose Game, looks like it’s finally going on sale soon. The $179 handheld is going to be available for preorder in July. The console’s first games, which are delivered over Wi-Fi for free with the purchase of the device, were shown off in greater detail …

This year’s virtual Computex show — the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic — kicked off with AMD CEO Lisa Su’s keynote address, and for once, a keynote made some real news. AMD’s long-anticipated mobile GPUs based on its RDNA 2 technology, the Radeon RX 6800M, 6700M and 6600M, debuted during her remarks. …

Nintendo’s long-rumored Switch upgrade will be unveiled in the coming weeks and come out in September or October, Bloomberg reported Thursday. We’ll apparently get a first glimpse at the new model ahead of E3 2021, the game industry event that runs June 12 to 15. The device will likely cost more than the $299 2017 model, which will be phased out …