You won’t find the crossbow in Alan Wake 2 until you start exploring Watery, an area not far from the town of Bright Falls. You’ll start seeing clues to the existence of the weapon as you get closer to the weapon’s location, by way of crossbow bolts stuck in trees. The first confirmation that it…
When it was first announced that Alan Wake 2 needs a graphics card that supports mesh shaders to run, PC gamers with AMD RX 5000-series or Nvidia GTX 10-series GPUs were immediately disappointed. It turns out the game will actually run without them, but the performance is so poor that mesh shader support really is…
The game was originally released back in 1993. As spotted by Game Vecanti over on Twitter, an English translation patch for the PC-98 eroge strategy-action game Shangrlia 2 has just been released by BabaJeanmel (one of the fans behind the recent translation for all 12 episodes of Jewel BEM Hunter Lime for PC-98). This marks…
October 28 marked 20 years of the Call of Duty series, as part of which some of the key designers have been talking about the greatest moments. The foundation for its overwhelming success, however, will always be original developer Infinity Ward, in particular the leap forward the studio made with the Modern Warfare series. It…
“This is actually really fun”. Earlier this year, Team Hookshot (Nintendo Life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension) all got together for an annual gathering filled with laughs, snacks, and sheer lunacy. To make the most of the event, our lovely video producer Zion decided to challenge Alex and Felix to a wee game…
Anno 1800 gained an impressive score of 84 from us back when it was reviewed in April 2019. Reviewer Rick Lane said this “rich and sumptuous city-builder” was “comfortably the most engrossing city-builder I’ve played since Cities Skylines”, but If you’ve not had the chance to try it then the Anno 1800 Free Week event…
Hi – I’m Jon Armstrong, rally driver and games designer here at Codemasters. I’ve got some news to share. Today, I want to talk about using the power of Playstation 5 to give you the most immersive experience in EA Sports WRC, launching November 3. Q: How does EA Sports WRC leverage the power and…
Ridge Racer turns 30 today. When Ridge Racer first burst into arcades on October 30th, 1993 (that’s an incredible 30 years ago today), it felt like the dawn of a new generation. Namco’s 3D title was comfortably the cutting edge of video game graphics at that point, effortlessly outclassing Sega’s Virtua Racing from the year…
“Run you pigeons! It’s Robert Frost!”. LucasArts’ classic 3D adventure game Grim Fandango was released 25 years ago today on Friday, October 30th, 1998 for Windows PCs. The game was the first LucasArts title to be developed using the GrimE engine (instead of the tried and true SCUMM engine used on LucasArts’ previous adventure games)…
AMD appears to be close to releasing the new Ryzen 7000G ‘Phoenix’ series of APUs for AM5 desktops, according to a leaked shipping manifest from X/Twitter user harkaze5719. The leak makes mention of several potential upcoming APU releases, the Ryzen 5 7500G (in both regular and Pro configurations) and the 7300G, and all are listed…