Summer looms ahead, and kids are out of school. Nintendo’s newest multiplayer Mario game is a return to its classic Mario Golf franchise. Do you like golf? Do you like Mario? We might have a match for you. After playing Mario Golf: Super Rush for about a week, I don’t have that many exciting things …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Target’s sale event, which is separate from Amazon Prime Day, is ticking down. But there are still incredible deals left on vacuums, kitchen essentials, AirPods and much more. We’ve taken the opportunity to highlight what’s truly special …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day is on its second day. This is the time to step up your gaming equipment without spending a lot of money. Whether you’re playing on a PS5, Xbox Series X or S, Nintendo Switch …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Prime Day‘s second day is underway, giving Nintendo Switch owners plenty of great deals to choose from — and not just from Amazon. Nintendo rarely discounts its own games, but Prime Day and its rivals have brought …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day ended Tuesday, but there are still some deals for gamers. We’ve gathered the biggest discounts we can find, including the lowest prices we’ve seen on some of the best games out right now. Where possible, …
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Now that E3 2021 has wrapped up, gamers have an eclectic batch of releases to wish list — with Nintendo announcing some noteworthy surprises on the Switch and Microsoft serving up new Xbox titles left and right. For the vast majority of the games announced at this year’s E3, you’ll need to mark your calendars for this fall, with many …
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There’s something chasing Samus down tunnels and it seems smart. And relentless. The robot, called EMMI, is particularly unsettling because it reminds me of one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs… but more limber. It keeps scuttling and chasing and it won’t go away. It keeps coming back. Metroid Dread is a new 2D entry in the long-running Metroid series …
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At an all-virtual E3 video game show with only a handful of standout surprises, the biggest news to me was just how central Xbox Game Pass has become to the Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft’s subscription service was already a must-have to many gamers, but it’s now becoming the first stop for many of the biggest upcoming Xbox games. Originally, Xbox Game …
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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 Metroid game and another teaser for Legend …
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It’s the 35th anniversary of Zelda. And of course, there’s a Zelda edition Game & Watch coming. Nintendo announced the second in its rebooted series of novelty Game & Watch retro handhelds at this year’s E3 version of Nintendo Direct: a Zelda-infused version coming Nov. 12. It looks very much like the Mario Game & Watch released last year, but …
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