We’re a few months behind the launch of Nintendo Switch 2, but apparently getting development kits hasn’t gotten any easier. Digital Foundry shared its latest findings following Gamescom 2025 last week. The outlet’s John Linneman, after speaking with various developers, has heard that Nintendo is encouraging teams to simply ship their games on Switch 1 and “rely on backwards compatibility.” …
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The Switch 2 launched just a few months ago and was immediately a smash hit, selling more than 3.5 million devices within four days of launch. Since then, Nintendo’s sold nearly twice that much, sitting at roughly around six million machines. Those are great numbers for Nintendo, which is why it’s strange that a recent report indicates that the console …
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AWS has introduced new pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding tool, but unlike the pricing originally announced, the latest plans are “a wallet-wrecking tragedy,” according to many of its users. “Kiro’s spec-driven AI IDE is a gem,” said open source PHP and Laravel engineer Antonio Ribeiro on GitHub, “until I saw your new pricing.” AWS introduced Kiro last month as …
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Mafia: The Old Country developer Hangar 13 has confirmed Free Ride mode is coming to the game as part of a free update for all players. Hangar 13 also revealed “new activities and gameplay” are coming as part of the free update, which is due out in “the coming months.” The developer didn’t offer any more information, but did issue …
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Following the hugely popular Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 1, developer DICE has outlined the changes and additions fans can expect for the upcoming Weekend 2, and confirmed its start time. Weekend 2 kicks off today, August 14, at 8am UTC (1am PT), and runs until Sunday, August 17. In a blog post, DICE outlined the playlist adjustments it has …
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A League of Legends player who claimed to have built a career around boosting accounts and selling them replied angrily on social media to a developer at Riot Games. He was worried about how he would make money now. The dev’s response was a link to McDonalds’ careers page. On August 11, Riot Games announced plans to ramp up its efforts …
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Hello players, Over the years, we’ve remained committed to creating a fair and enjoyable gameplay environment, and we’ve made that promise to you time and again. This August, we’re taking another step toward keeping that promise by introducing a new anti-cheat feature. In today’s Dev Letter, we’d like to share the background and walk you through what’s coming. The Need …
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Video game visuals have come a long way since the ’90s. The jump between pixel art and polygons was a massive one, but players still had to rely on a bit of imagination to fully see the things game developers were trying to depict at the time. Now that we have graphics that could be mistaken for reality, we’ve also …
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Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer “on notice” for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which “makes the world actively a worse place to live” – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old. Torvalds’ brusque attitude was perhaps most well demonstrated in …
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Image: Good Shepherd Bithell Games, the developer behind John Wick Hex, TRON: Identity, and TRON: Catalyst, is sadly making “eleven jobs” at the studio redundant. Studio founder Mike Bithell shared a message on Bluesky earlier today stating that his studio — which he founded in 2013 following the release and critical success behind Thomas Was Alone — has “been unable …
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