Month: January 2025

Some sports game franchises often have their problems attributed to a lack of competition in their respective genres. Fans will proclaim that certain sports sim series would be better if only they were up against a similar product when players went looking to buy one. NBA 2K hasn’t had a consistent competitor for most of the last decade, and it’s been a reliably fun simulation of basketball regardless. That is still largely the case in NBA 2K24, but the eminently enjoyable on-court sim is hampered more than ever by the game’s pay-to-win economy.

In NBA 2K24, the mainstays of MyCareer, MyTeam, and MyNBA return, and even last year’s Jordan Challenge gets a pseudo-sequel in Mamba Moments, shifting the spotlight from the GOAT to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. But Mamba…

It’s human nature to be curious about what seemingly mundane and inanimate things get up to while we’re not looking. Such thinking spawned mythos like fairies in people’s gardens, borrowers, and the Toy Story saga, and now we come to street signs. What do those little human figures get up to when no-one is around? If The Pedestrian is to be believed, the answer is 2D platforming, solving lots and lots of puzzles, and taking control of electrical devices in an attempt to escape their confines.

In taking control of a human figure (either with or without a dress) your adventure in The Pedestrian is mostly confined to various street signs, blueprints, and other 2D surfaces. In the background, blurred into obscurity, are the beautiful 3D landscapes of the world they exi…

If there’s one steadfast, unshakeable belief we have tried to communicate here at GameSpot Dot Com, it’s that the Nintendo Switch needs folders. We have been very, very vocal on this over the last five years. So imagine our surprise when Nintendo suddenly released a new Switch firmware update, adding Groups, a feature that lets you group games and applications together with custom labels. Why, that sounds like folders!

After some well-earned champagne-popping and congratulating ourselves on successfully encouraging Nintendo to do the right and moral thing, we downloaded the update. Our jubilation quickly turned to bafflement, then disappointment, then frustration, then hunger, then frustration again, then white-hot anger. How did they mess this up?

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game system of November 2021 in the US, as Nintendo sold 1.13 million console units, according to data from the NPD group. Nintendo’s hybrid device has been the top-selling video game console for 35 out of the last 36 months, with the 2021 Thanksgiving period being responsible for 550,000 sales.

The November success for Nintendo shouldn’t be too surprising, as the company had both new Switch systems and games available in the fourth quarter of the year that could drive sales. The Nintendo Switch OLED Model is an updated version of the console designed to appeal to people who prefer the handheld nature of the console, while games such as Metroid Dread, Mario Party Superstars, Shin Megani Tensei V, and the Pokemon Pearl and Diamond rema…