The latest step in Elon Musk’s scheme to convert X—the worsening service you and I still call Twitter—into “the everything app“? Turn it into Twitch. The flighty billionaire wants the site to operate as a livestreaming service (as well as a bank, a “global town square,” and presumably a microblogging platform) and in the last…
Enjoy deep discounts on Xbox games and DLC with this week’s Xbox Sales and Specials from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through October 09, 2023 (actual end date varies by sale). Visit the official Xbox Sales & Specials site here. Plus, save on select Xbox titles during the Action Adventure Sale and…
A slow Switcharoo. In a recent interview with Nikkei, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has reiterated the firm’s intentions to support Switch with new games next year. Having launched in March 2017, the Switch is already over halfway into its seventh year on the market. Asked whether the console’s lifecycle could be lengthened even further, Furukawa…
“The past year has been indescribable”. When we launched Time Extension over a year ago, we ran an interview with Lost in Cult founder Jon Doyle. Just like us, Doyle’s creative studio was still something of a baby at that point; it had produced a few issues of the excellent periodical and was working on…
Readers, our long national nightmare is over. An injustice has been rectified, light shines where once there was only darkness, your children can sleep soundly in their beds. I speak, of course, of Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix, which has restored His Majesty—everyone’s favourite overweening feline—to his original, superior, and hairless form. It’s also fixed…
Nine commercial i-mode games have now been saved. When it comes to video game preservation, NTT DoCoMo’s popular Japanese feature phone service i-mode has often been overlooked. That’s in spite of famous Japanese companies like Capcom, Enix, Konami, Namco, and more having published high-quality games & applications for the platform. This mostly comes down to…
In his heart, he was a gamer. Sea of Stars was released over a month ago now, and it’s safe to say that it’ll be featuring on many a gamer’s GOTY list come December. Sabotage’s RPG is a gorgeous, gloriously clever homage to 16-bit classics that manages to modernise things while adding its own unique…
Minecraft has given The Forgotten Realms a cubic makeover in the new Dungeons & Dragons DLC. The friends I play D&D with are curiously also the same friends who get the annual itch to set up a Minecraft server, and at least once a year we disappear into the realm of right angles and are…
Did we mention it’s free? One of the key creatives behind the original Fable, Dene Carter, has just released a free retro, turn-based RPG on Steam, called Moonring. Carter was credited on the original Fable as a designer and was later present for the development of Fable II and Fable III, before leaving Lionhead in…
The results of Steam’s September hardware survey have been released. Though it’s not the last word in what goes on in the PC gaming market, it provides an interesting glimpse into the hardware and software that gamers are using. According to the September results, there’s a new GPU king in town. The Nvidia GeForce RTX…