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Nintendo Switch 2 review: more than excellent enough

Gamebro.biz.id - At one point, the people who made the Switch 2 thought about naming it the Super Nintendo Switch.  They opted against it, though, because it could play original Switch games, while the Super NES from 1990 couldn't play games from the NES from 1983.  I played with it all weekend and think the Switch Pro is a better moniker. It's more like a modernized and improved version of the original system than a whole new generation. The bigger screen and faster processor are the most visible improvements, but every part of the system is better.  The larger Joy-Cons seem stronger and are easier to operate. I like how they magnetically clip onto the console.  The user interface is a graceful but somewhat monotonous version of the Switch's, with mild haptic feedback and nice little sounds that make it feel like you're playing. Some people might be upset that the Switch OLED model goes back to a regular LCD screen, but the quality is good and the extra screen spac...
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The 15 finest games for the PlayStation 5 to play in 2025

Gamebro.biz.id - If you're just now learning about the PlayStation 5 a few years after it came out, you're in luck.  Sony's own studios have made some of their best games this generation by taking advantage of the console's technical power and creating huge stories and intriguing characters.  In the meantime, both big third-party studios and small indie developers have used the system and its unique controller in amazing ways. Astro Bot The beautiful 3D platformer from Sony has the titular space robot stuck on a faraway world with hundreds of cute friends.  All the bits of his mothership are guarded by a colourful array of bosses, and you must put it back together.  We adore it because "It's one of the best platformers I've ever played, and I've played a lot of them as a kid in the 90s."  Read the whole review. Baldur's Gate 3 One of the best modern role-playing fantasy games, it gives players almost as much flexibility to tell stories and use...
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Mario Kart World review: a wild road excursion for all players

Gamebro.biz.id - My sons come up to me after we had played Mario Kart World for a few hours and proudly showed me the circular marks on their little thumbs from pushing down the accelerator button so hard. That's when I knew we could have a problem.  I was a little worried, so I looked at my own thumb and saw the same signs that I had gotten too into the crazy, knockabout excitement of our tournaments.  You can now play Mario Kart online, even with video chat, in World. But it's not the same as playing with friends next to you on the sofa.  I think this game will bring back multiplayer in the living room for millions of families. Since 1992, I've spent many hours racing Mario and his friends around their cartoon paradise circuits. This series has been with me my whole life; it's the one thing that everyone wants to play with me, no matter how much they know about video games.  I've been in time-trial wars with my brother and gamer friends that lasted for months. I...
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MindsEye review: a gloomy future that feels like it came out in 2012

Gamebro.biz.id - In Redrock, MindsEye's open-world recreation of Las Vegas, there is a Sphere-like thing.  It's almost a perfect reproduction of the original: a big soap bubble that is half buried in the desert floor and has its surface converted into a massive TV.  Sometimes, when you're driving an electric car built by Silva, the megacorp that runs this world, you'll go close to the Sphere.  There will be occasions when you have to halt right when a commercial for the same Silva EV starts playing on the big curved screen above you.  The doubling effect can make you feel a little dizzy. I really get what MindsEye is trying to do during these times.  You're caught in the worst company town, where oligarchs and other criminals dominate everything and there's no way to get out of the ecosystem they've established.  MindsEye gets all of this across through a chance meeting, and it does so in a way that is both subtle and smart.  The rest of the game is m...
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review—an art-house game that will keep you hooked with an A-list cast

Gamebro.biz.id - What does Death Stranding 2 want to say?  During the second part of Hideo Kojima's hypnotic, mysterious, and provocatively slow-paced cargo management simulator series, you will ask yourself this question numerous times.  First, because when you are on your lengthy, boring journeys through its mystical versions of Mexico and Australia, you have all the time in the world to think about the little things and figure out what you just saw that was so strange.  And second, since the question often reveals something deep. The fact that it can hold up to such a long time of thinking about it shows how well-made this game is.  No one is writing down notes to figure out what Doom: The Dark Ages is about or watching Marvel Rivals' cutscenes for hints, even if those games are great.  It's not often for games to be put under this kind of scrutiny, and even less common for them to pass it.  Death Stranding 2, on the other hand, has the mood and storyte...
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 review: a gnarly time capsule for skating

Gamebro.biz.id - It's almost disrespectful how readily this version of a skate game makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood.  The second I hear "Ace of Spades" over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I'm taken back to the early 2000s, when I spent countless hours playing one Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game or another in the dirty bedrooms of my teenage pals.  I can still smell the strong smell of Lynx body spray more than 20 years later. The first several Tony Hawk games were refined and re-released in 2020, when the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit.  The two games were packaged together as one, with the same controls and a new look that kept the grungy feel of the originals. The same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters, and parks from both 2001's THPS3 and 2002's THPS4 are here, along with newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the famous skating celebrity – I found this strangely touching). The factory, the college campus, the Canadian s...
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The way a child plays is the way they live: how therapists are utilizing video games to help kids who are in trouble

Gamebro.biz.id - Minecraft and other creative games are becoming known as great ways to express yourself and help your mental health, even for traumatized Ukrainian refugees. The Russian invasion of Ukraine started when Oleksii Sukhorukov's son was 12.  The family lived in a condition of anguish and chaos for months. Sukhorukov had to quit his job in the entertainment sector, which involved virtual reality and video games. They were cut off from friends and family.  But in the middle of all the craziness, his son had one way to escape: Minecraft.  He would escape by playing Mojang's block-building video game, no matter what was going on outside. Sukhorukov recalls, "After February 24, 2022, I started to see the game in a whole new way."  I found out that Ukrainian kids were playing together online. Some of them lived in areas of the country controlled by the government that were regularly hit by missiles, while others were already exiles.  But they could still ...
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