It was sometime in 2017, after the release of our first title, Pocket Mirror, a free RPG Maker horror adventure game, that the development team sat down to flesh out its next project – thus, Little Goody Two Shoes was born. We wanted to develop the story of Elise, a minor character in Pocket Mirror,…
New book looks at the company’s glorious Mega Drive era. While titles like Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga still have the power to attract attention today (the former recently came to Switch and arrives on Steam soon), it’s fair to say that Japanese developer Treasure’s best days are well and truly behind it. Its last game…
My main job in Final Fantasy 14 is the ninja. It has a satisfying rotation. I like that I can occasionally dip into ranged combat. I like that I’m slightly faster than everyone. I like that I get a little bunny on my head when I mess up. It’s good fun. I will, however, always…
Hot off the news that the long-running plan to merge with Kioxia has ground to a halt yet again, Western Digital’s board of directors has approved a plan to split the company up. Its NAND flash and hard drive divisions will become entirely independent public companies, pending final board approval and other regulations. Western Digital,…
And there’s a demo too! Originally debuting on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, Castlevania has been released on countless other consoles and computers over the years, but not every port was created equal. In 1990, the Hungarian developer Novotrade released a disappointing version of the Famicom classic on the Commodore Amiga, provoking a fair…
Last week, I had the opportunity to spend some time with the upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, an open-world adventure based on the Avatar film franchise. This demo allowed me to get hands-on with some of the combat, bond with my Ikran, and experience the wonders of the Western Frontier. In one of the first…
The latest in our series of Z790 refresh motherboard reviews is the MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Max WiFi. To use MSI’s MAG nomenclature, Tomahawks sit in the middle of MSI’s product stack, above the entry level gaming oriented MPG range and below the high end MEG range. It sits in the bang for your buck…
200% louder! There’s a whole community around restoring and upgrading vintage hardware these days, and we’re big fans of the fact that it’s now possible to augment the abilities of your classic systems with things like new screens, batteries, controllers and AV capabilities. Take the CleanAmp Duo, for example; designed from the ground up by…
The Nacon Revolution 5 Pro gaming controller takes a lot of queues from the Microsoft Elite Series 2, both aesthetically and in terms of its key features. There are a few main differences between the two. It’s important to consider Nacon’s alignment with PlayStation as opposed to Xbox, so it’s not the most direct comparison…
“The future is bright and unwritten”. In what will no doubt prove to be one of the more, shall we say, sensible acquisitions in the games industry, Digital Eclipse has announced that it is officially joining Atari after its stellar work on Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. Founded in 1992, Digital Eclipse is well known…