Alex Donaldson

2 days ago | msn.com | Alex Donaldson

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3 days ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

It's that most thrilling time, the dawn of a new hardware generation. It's gaming Christmas! As a critic, that means it's time for that finest tradition - an intense period of bedding in with a new piece of hardware, vigorously road-testing it so that we can inform you, our delightful readers, if this thrilling new piece of tech is worth your money. But this isn't a Nintendo Switch 2 review, for reasons that will become clear.

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Alex Donaldson

5 hours ago10 Best Nintendo Launch Games of All TimeThe best day one Nintendo games ever. Mario Kart World joins a storied history of Nintendo-developed games available on launch day of a brand new …6 days agoFriends Go Viral for Creating Life-Sized 'Mario Party' Game at Home, Complete with Characters and Challenges (Exclusive)NEED TO KNOW One woman is bringing the fun of Mario Party to her living room — no console needed.

3 days ago | vg247.com | Alex Donaldson

I can scarcely think of a game as hampered by its performance as the original Nintendo Switch release of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. I can think of loads of games that perform worse, of course - broken, shattered releases - but I struggle to think of a great game so thoroughly compromised just from how it runs. That was the log behind my 2022 review of the games, where I called the games a “super-effective new vision” for the series but bemoaned how it ran.

2 weeks ago | vg247.com | Alex Donaldson

I often think of graphics cards as being a little bit like cars. They’re performance focused, but aesthetics and efficiency also hugely matter. They also run the budgeting gamut. If you want to run everything with all the bells and whistles, then your Porsche or Ferrari equivalent is there for you, should you be willing to part with a huge chunk of change. Equally, most people don’t need nor can afford such extravagance.