Ash Parrish

The biggest fighting game tournament is a little smaller this year — but still exciting

The biggest fighting game tournament is a little smaller this year — but still exciting

Evo 2025, the biggest fighting game tournament in North America, starts this weekend. If you tune into one of the nine different Evo Twitch channels, you’ll see some of the top players in the world compete in fighting game staples like Street Fighter and Tekken and newer games like Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves […]

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The Switch 2 is off to a speedy start for big third-party games

The Switch 2 is off to a speedy start for big third-party games

With the Switch 2, Nintendo seems to be closing the release date gap with some of its third-party games. It’s a problem that plagued previous Nintendo consoles, which often received games years after other platforms, if at all. While today’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase may have lacked the splash of anticipated third-party games like Hades […]

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All the news from Nintendo’s July 2025 Direct showcase

All the news from Nintendo’s July 2025 Direct showcase

It’s been a little over a month since the Switch 2 launched, and Nintendo’s ready to share more of the games coming to the console. Today’s Nintendo Direct presentation will be a short one at only 25 minutes long, and focused exclusively on third-party games. It’s likely that Hades 2 will make an appearance. The […]

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The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden […]

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