Swen Vincke, the CEO and founder of Larian Studio (developer of Baldur’s Gate 3) has taken to Twitter to share some progress on his next game—namely, he thinks he’s got a solid draft going. “Been a great morning! After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, I finally figured…
“You ever make it to King Koopa?”. If you’ve hopped onto social media this morning, you’ve undoubtedly been inundated with coverage of the 81st Golden Globe Awards event. We’re here to add to that, because we’re nice, but also because it’s kind of, sort of relevant to Nintendo. You see, when presenting the nominees for…
From the developer behind Cyberpunks & Cyberpunks 2. Adrian Cummings, the developer behind the Commodore Amiga titles Cyberpunks, Cyberpunks 2, and Castle Kingdoms, yesterday announced on the English Amiga Board website that he is working on a new hack and slash dungeon crawler called Dungeonette – The New Adventure for the Commodore Amiga and Amiga…
Things are hotting up. The Pokémon Company has announced that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s next 7-Star Tera Raid Battle will kick off this weekend from 12th-14th January before repeating on 19th-21st (thanks, Serebii.net). The upcoming event will put yet another fully evolved starter in the spotlight, with Blaziken taking the starring role. This ‘mon will…
Coining it in. If you’ve been watching Netflix’s Fool Me Once, then you might have spotted a rather famous British retro arcade during the second episode of the Harlan Coben adaptation. Bury’s Arcade Club doubles as a location in the twisty-turny thriller, which stars Michelle Keegan (Coronation Street, Our Girl), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Spooks)…
Your move, creep. Back in the ’90s, two of cinema’s most iconic robots did battle in the risible RoboCop Versus The Terminator, a rather clunky mash-up which launched on a wide range of systems, including the SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, Game Gear and Game Boy. While the game met with a somewhat lukewarm reception,…
Kickstart your Wordle week with an easy win—just click your way straight through to the January 8 (933) answer if you like. Would you rather take your time, but would still like a little help? No problem. There’s a helpful clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below, and plenty of general tips for the daily…
A listing for Samsung’s upcoming 990 Evo SSD has appeared online. Though the release of a 990 Evo series SSD is not at all unexpected, its PCIe lane configuration is surprising, and it’s an interesting configuration at that. The 990 Evo listing popped up on Samsung’s Ukraine website (spotted by WinFuture). It reveals the drive…
After sharp-eyed Magic: The Gathering fans cried foul over a recent promotional image’s seeming use of generative AI, Wizards of the Coast initially asserted that it was fully human-made. However, just two days on Wizards has deleted the offending marketing post and acknowledged that generative tools were used in the image. The picture in question…
To my mind, the aesthetic of Games Workshop’s original tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle can be summed best by a Monty Python quote. It’s the bit in Holy Grail where a commoner says he can tell Arthur must be a king because “he hasn’t got shit all over him.” Though the grubby fantasy of old…