The former “king of crypto” Sam Bankman-Fried is currently on trial for fraud in the United States, following the 2022 collapse of his crypto firm FTX. The trial has been running since early October and sees Bankman-Fried facing seven charges total including wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering, all of which he denies. But…
Launching next month. After its successful Kickstarter campaign, pixel art roguelite Astral Ascent is now heading to the Nintendo Switch next month on November 14th, 2023. Crafted by developer Hibernian Workshop, the game has been in early access for a year prior to its full release. It will feature 12 powerful bosses to defeat that…
Valve has released SteamVR 2.0 after a month in beta. The virtual reality software is finally heading to headsets with some big changes to the store, keyboard, library, and more. I don’t know if you’ve used SteamVR recently but prior to this release it’s not been a piece of software that inspired feelings of ‘next-gen’…
Even a year-and-a-half after release Elden Ring retains mystique, secrets, areas of the game that even the most dedicated cannot fully unravel. This is of course by design and has been the way ever since Demon’s Souls, with FromSoftware always aiming to leave plenty of room for player interpretation: it’s arguably one of the reasons…
Wowie… you know. Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is officially the fastest-selling Mario game ever in Europe, reaching the milestone within its first three days on sale. Launched just last week on October 20th, 2023, the sales milestone puts it above every other Mario game, including titans such as Super Mario Odyssey…
“Think of them as additional mods to complement the base game”. Ghostbusters – Special Edition, the amazing hack of Compile’s 1990 Ghostbusters game on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, has been updated to version 1.2b, adding in “optional patches” which “complement the base game.” “Included three special new costume colors to replace Pink,” says…
Catch bugs and whack bad guys. Xbox recently held a Partner Preview event to showcase some upcoming third-party games, including the likes of Alan Wake II, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and Ark: Survival Ascended. One of the highlights, however, was Sega’s upcoming Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth from the talented folks over at…
“My illustrations are in the game!”. A character designer who worked on several games in Square Enix’s SaGa series has dropped a pretty massive hint that we’re going to get a re-release of SaGa Frontier 2 in 2024 (thanks, @Renka_schedule). Tomomi Kobayashi, who worked on both SaGa Frontier and SaGa Frontier 2, published a post…
Nintendo ninjas assembling, surely. As global companies go, Nintendo is notoriously relaxed about individuals and other companies picking from its vast catalogue of beloved IP, adapting it for their own works, and profiting from the results. Hang on, that doesn’t sound right… In a move that surely has the Ninjaphone ringing off the hook in…
Knot the best port. Gordian Quest, like many games of its ilk, is bogged down by dense, cumbersome menus and volumes of small text. But unlike a lot of other games in the strategy and deckbuilding genre, it’s much easier to wrap your mind around and isn’t mired in frustratingly long tutorials and steep learning…