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Nook's Cranny is the main shop on your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and it's run by the tanuki twins, Timmy and Tommy. With your help, they'll open their shop and, eventually, be able to upgrade Nook's Cranny, allowing them to sell a variety of new items. Nook's Cranny also has a daily Hot Item and a Drop-off Box, which you can use when the shop is closed. [Read More]

The developer of Cube World has opened up about its lengthy development and lack of updates throughout. This week, Picroma announced the voxel-based action-RPG Cube World would hit Steam in the next couple of months - six years after its controversial alpha release (more on that in Matt's report on Cube World's launch announcement). Following that announcement, developer Wolfram von Funck issued a message to the Cube World community, saying an early distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack " [Read More]

It's likely to go down in history as one of the greatest E3 demos, its iconic status only embellished by the fact that outside of behind-closed-doors visitors, nobody has actually seen it. But the trailer footage looks sensational and reports of Cyberpunk 2077's gameplay are stoking plenty of excitement. And now, we have confirmation of the PC hardware that was actually running it. CD Projekt RED's junior community specialist Alicja Kozera posted on the game's Discord channel that Intel's Core i7 8700K was the CPU of choice for the demo, while Nvidia's GTX 1080 Ti provided the all-important graphics component. [Read More]

In Dead Island 1 you played with up to three other people - in Dead Island 2 you'll play with up to seven. You won't have to press a button to bring other people into your game. Instead, inspired by Journey, people will find and join your world unless you opt out. "You can play alone if you want," said game director Bernd Diemer to GameTrailers, "but as soon as you're connected and you're willing to play with other people, they will join your world, your server. [Read More]

A cautious revival but a very worthwhile one, which creates a great foundation for future games. Editor's note: This is our final review of Gears of War 4, based on time with the full game on live servers. If you want more in-depth impressions on Gears of War 4's campaign, our early impressions piece goes into more detail on the game's single-player. After 40-odd hours with Gears of War 4, I have just one burning question: how on Earth did this game, the game with characters amassed from leftover dinosaur parts and a rifle you can chop timber with, grow up to be so bloody sensible? [Read More]

Micro Machines' return sits in the shadow of its superior predecessor. A couple of years ago, Codemasters attempted to revive the top down racing genre with Toybox Turbos. It was essentially Micro Machines, but without the license to call it Micro Machines and although the gameplay was basic, it managed to capture the essence of what made the original games so special. Micro Machines World Series Publisher: Codemasters Developer: Codemasters/Just Add Water Platform: Reviewed on PS4 Availability: Out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One The success of that release must have paid off because Micro Machines: World Series sees Codemasters reclaiming that famous name, although with it comes a lot of extra baggage, including some rather odd in-game design choices that fundamentally change the spirit of the series. [Read More]

Beneath Patrick's Parabox's minimalist surface are layers upon layers - a masterclass of simplicity and puzzling challenge. According to one famous linguist, what makes humans special is our ability to deal in recursion. To take different clauses or concepts and nest them within each other like Russian dolls. And from these beautiful, simple, recursive mergings spring near-infinite forms of expression. Anyway, whether or not recursion is the essence of the human mind, it is fun to mess about with. [Read More]

The Pokémon Company has acknowledged issues with hacked creatures being available in its latest Nintendo Switch games - as well as cloud-based storage service Pokémon Home. Anyone found using "illegally modified data" will be subject to various punishments, and potentially a loss of access to Home's subscription service even if they had paid up for the privilege. "We have confirmed that some users are playing Pokémon Sword Shield and Pokémon Home using illegally modified data," [Read More]

The Radeon 7 is AMD's first high-end graphics card for several years, making it an eagerly anticipated proposition - both for users looking to upgrade their systems and those that want competition between AMD and Nvidia to drive GPU prices down. While the card is the first to be built on a 7nm process, bringing both performance and efficiency advantages, its Vega architecture doesn't include any major feature additions. Instead, we are looking at a card that is significantly more powerful than the outgoing Vega 64, yet promises better thermal performance at similar levels of power draw. [Read More]

Resistance 3 is now 10 years old. Insomniac's sci-fi first-person shooter launched exclusively on PlayStation 3 on 6th September 2011, then in Europe on 9th September. It was the final game in the Resistance trilogy, and supported stereoscopic 3D, the PlayStation Move and the Sharp Shooter (remember those?). It also had a PSN Pass (remember that?). The video below, made by Digital Foundry a decade ago, shows stereoscopic 3D gameplay capture from a preview build of Resistance 3: [Read More]