Looks like we’re getting another foodie crossover in Final Fantasy 14. Yesterday, the Twitter/X account for KFC Japan posted a short, ominous video of the Colonel overlooking the cliffs of La Noscea with the caption (courtesy of Google translate): “Colonel Sanders is steadily preparing for a new adventure in another world…” Listen, I know Mr….
“Social media has become absolutely useless for sharing anything meaningful”. As well as being a Time Extension contributor, Mikolai Napieralski runs Forgotten Worlds, a website about video game magazines. It’s not a magazine about video game magazines, and he’s here to tell you about it, and several other examples… My COVID fever dream has a…
Why do all spaceships have to be horizontal? Nevermind the practicality or anything like that, I want to explore space in something a little more vertical. A silo, a tower, perhaps. Or maybe even a ship that is just one very, very long ladder a la Snake. As spotted by GamesRadar, one particularly determined Starfield…
“We have to start by brainstorming”. Yasuyuki Oda, General Manager of SNK Software Development Division 1, has revealed that early work has begun on a reboot of the Art of Fighting series, as well as a Samurai Shodown entry which isn’t a fighting game. Speaking to the Japanese site 4Gamer (thanks, gosokkyu) Oda said: Read…
Pre-orders are now open. Update #2 : Atari and MyArcade have opened up pre-orders for their brand new game console, the Gamestation Pro (which is not to be confused with Atari’s other recently announced retro console, the Atari 2600+). According to the store page now live on MyArcade, the device will feature over 200 games,…
Also known as ‘Brawl Brothers’ and ‘Rival Turf’. City Connection has announced that it is creating a sequel to Jaleco’s Rushing Beat / Brawl Brothers / Rival Turf series, called Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers. The company has confirmed the game will be shown off at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Read the…
Even the smartest of boffins can trip up sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened after a member of Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive internal data after misconfiguring a link. Wiz, a cloud security company that routinely looks for vulnerabilities or exposures of cloud-hosted data detailed the exposure on its blog (via…
For good or ill, artificial intelligence is here to stay. That’s actually underselling it because the AI industry is booming. Just ask Nvidia. Industries across the world are spending billions looking at ways to integrate AI models into their businesses. But while AI has the potential to boost productivity, accelerate innovation and become a useful…
“THE prime asset for us in Gaming”. An internal email from Xbox’s Phil Spencer in 2020 has revealed that the company was (and potentially still is) considering Nintendo as a potential acquisition. Revealed as part of a deluge of leaked, unredacted documents from the FTC Vs. Microsoft case in the United States, the email goes…
But he’s got no development updates about DQXII. It’s been some time since we last got an update about the development of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. Thankfully the series creator Yuji Horii has finally broken this silence. Speaking to Japanese outlet Famitsu during Cosplay Summit 2023 back in August, Horii revealed the remake was…