When Ratchet and Clank debuted on the PlayStation 2 nearly four years ago, it was already less of a platformer than those in the genre that preceded it. Kicking the cuter side of gaming into gear, the lombax and his lovable robot sidekick showed that their bias was in favor of heavy artillery instead of fancy moves. Now in their fourth iteration, Ratchet and Clank have upped the ante once again by removing almost all semblance of platformer gameplay to concentrate on combat. And though the game successfully reduces the jumping and swinging segments of the gameplay–due largely to Clank’s retirement from action–the single-player is still, for all its changes, not that different from the previous three games. On the one hand, that works to the game’s advantage, as Insomniac Games takes its already stellar gameplay mechanics and fine-tunes them with each addition to the series. On the other hand, it means that each successive entry in the franchise competes with all the previous gam…

Decades after Jaws cemented our cultural fear of the deep ocean, Subnautica emerges from Steam Early Access to fuel a new breed of underwater nightmares. This first-person survival epic by Unknown Worlds Entertainment dumps you into the water with not a great white shark to watch out for, but an entire alien world full of monstrosities ready and able to swallow you whole. Subnautica expands into an intense and challenging game that maintains considerable beauty and mystique across its massive environments. It’s so magical and otherworldly that it practically pains you to stop playing, even when you’re filled with dread.

Despite its scale and demanding ecosystem, Subnautica is one of the most approachable open-world survival games around. Where most of this sort have a steep difficulty curve to climb, this underwater alien world is easy to get into. The solo-only campaign begins when your ship crashes onto a flooded planet. You awaken, floating in your pod wi…

During a Japanese investor Q&A this week, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa spoke about how the company plans to transition away from the Switch console in the future.

“We have already announced a portion of our software roadmap releasing up to next spring,” Furukawa said (via VGC). “Unlike the past, we continue to have a large variety of games scheduled to be released, even beyond five years of release Come from Sports betting site VPbet . This is because the Nintendo Switch has had such a smooth launch, allowing us to focus all of our development resources on a single platform.”

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It appears Death Stranding could be coming to PC Game Pass, as the service’s official Twitter profile image has been updated with a mountain-filled image very similar to the game’s own landscapes Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The account only added further fuel to the fire when another version also included rain–a crucial element to the Death Stranding story.

The account changed its profile to the image above and then tweeted “sometimes we just like a good landscape picture #NewProfilePic” Though the picture doesn’t have any recognizable landmarks from the game, its foggy, lush, and rock-laden mountainscape certainly fits Death Stranding’s bill.

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