Gaming

The long-time Smash Bros. director-turned-YouTuber offers up some helpful video game storage tips in his latest video, which is perfect for those of us embracing the various worlds of physical media.

It’s no secret that the PS5 has entered the “latter stage of its life cycle” with Sony resetting sales expectations in February. Today’s earnings report shows it just missing that revised 21M target by selling 20.8 million consoles for the fiscal year.

We’ll see if the rumored PS5 Pro helps change the trajectory before the year is done.

The iconic Lofi Girl is now in Fortnite — or, at least, her room is. A new Fortnite map lets you run around the bedroom as if you were in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, collecting music notes and sneaking a look at what’s under the bed. It’s unsurprisingly pretty chill, except for some of the platforming sequences.

Ubisoft has announced that the project formerly titled Assassin’s Creed Red now has an official name: Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But wait, there’s more. In addition to announcing the name change, Ubisoft has also announced that it’ll be sharing the game’s first official reveal trailer this week, Wednesday May 15th at 12 PM ET.

A Peridot, that is. Pokémon Go maker Niantic is attempting to expand its virtual pet game with a new mixed reality spinoff for the Meta Quest 3. If you own the headset you can check it out right now.

After last week’s stealth drop of Hades II in early access, the developers at Evil Empire prudently decided to push back the release of their own game The Rogue Prince of Persia. Instead of launching in early access this week, the Prince of Persia-themed roguelike will now launch in early access on Steam May 27th.

YouTuber pannenkoek2012 explains, in great detail, why a door in the “Cool, Cool Mountain” can’t be opened (there’s an invisible wall) and how someone figured out how to open it anyway.

Get a load of the transparent shells on the upcoming RG35XXSP! It’s still not listed for sale on Anbernic’s site, sadly, but that could change pretty soon.

Remember when Sony walked back its retroactive requirement link a PSN account to Helldivers 2 PC? That same day, Ghost of Tsushima dev Sucker Punch assured fans its upcoming PC port wouldn’t require PSN for singleplayer.

But now, Ghost has been abruptly delisted from non-PSN countries on Steam. We’ve emailed Sony and Valve... what gives?

Polygon reports that Small Radios Big Televisions and others will get their indie games transferred back to them too — though other devs are still waiting to hear back, and WBD has yet to comment.

Announced in an April Beta release, the new recommendation card is moving forward, and now showing up in the latest Developer channel build, XDA Developers reports. It’ll appear for users with Windows 11 Pro and Home versions who are also logged into a Microsoft account — and only targeted to those who play PC games and aren’t already subscribed.

The Steam Deck Dock is getting HDMI-CEC to wake your TV from sleep and switch its inputs, and and the Deck OLED will soon be able to decide which Bluetooth devices can wake it from sleep... plus Bluetooth A2DP and BAP audio support, microSD fixes, a new graphics driver, overclocking controls in the Deck LCD’s BIOS, and more in preview!

“duck game is safe!!” writes Landon Podbielski, developer of one of the best indie couch co-op games ever made and the Steam top seller in Adult Swim’s portfolio. Phew, that was close! Are you a former Adult Swim developer who got the same good news? Hit us up at tips@theverge.com.

Just like PlayStation a few months ago and the Xbox platform last spring, Nintendo’s Twitter sharing features are disappearing as the X API lockdown tightens. (The send friend requests to social media from your Switch feature is also going away.)

The X Gaming account claims “Our partnership with Nintendo remains strong,” so we’ll see which integrations end up on the “Switch 2.”

We knew one was coming, but apparently it’s coming soon. Tomorrow at 3PM ET, the company will “get hyped about new impending ROG Ally hardware” on this live YouTube stream. Here are the other teases we’ve recently seen.

The gaming handheld and mini-PC maker describes the Zune-brown and RGB dial-clad unit as a “Multifunction Graphics Dock,” but is holding details for a “Sharing Session” on May 18th at 3AM ET, as reported by VideoCardz.

Mobile graphics docks are slowly coming to market, including AMD 7600M XT-powered ones like the GPD G1 and the ONEXGPU (which can both connect with Oculink), and the RTX 4090-powered ROG XG Mobile.