Indiana Jones and the Great Circle seems to’ve been whipped into good shape by Bethesda, a much-needed win for the studio—capturing for fans (including our own Ted Litchfield, who gave it an 86 in his review) the pure distilled essence of the action adventure classic, like a modern Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay…
The Witcher 3 was an excellent game. An all-timer game. One of the greats. But it had one fatal flaw: The total absence of Iorveth, everyone’s favourite focoist guerilla elf boyfriend from The Witcher 2. But per the third volume of What Lies Unseen—a datamined development history of The Witcher 3 from modders Moonknight, Ferroxius,…
All machines break. Those of us who have owned enough hardware over the years will be familiar with the frustration that comes with a dead or malfunctioning system, and that’s before you get to the hassle of looking up part numbers, scouring YouTube tutorials, and digging that screwdriver set out from the back of your…
It’s true! Off the back of last year’s exquisite Dodonpachi DaiOuJou Blissful Death Re:Incarnation, publisher Live Wire has announced that it’s bringing DoDonPachi True Death to Switch in Japan on 19th December. True Death (or ‘DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou’, in Japan) is the sixth entry in Cave’s vertical-scrolling shoot ’em up series, initially launching in arcades in…
Itch.io, a website used to host a heap of games—primarily self-published indie projects—was taken down briefly this morning (or over the weekend, depending on time zones) thanks to, uh, Funko of Funko Pop infamy. I’m about as confused as you, and the site’s creator Leafo, are. As posted to both Bluesky and X, the site…
A technical showcase with informed design sensibilities. Regular readers will know we covered Changeable Guardian Estique last year and in May, and we were very excited for its release. We’ve actually had a review ROM since September, but we wanted to play an additional 19 games alongside – on real hardware – to fully appreciate…
I originally said that Infinity Nikki was like a dress-up Genshin Impact, but after entirely too many hours of playtime over the weekend I’m becoming convinced it’s more like a dress-up Dark Souls. Nothing has solidified that theory for me more than discovering that players have been using the Snapshot function—essentially the only form of…
Cooling fans in servers don’t have an easy life. They’re jammed into a tiny space and typically run full-pelt all day long. Should one fail, it’s not a quick task to replace them either, so anything that can be done to keep them running longer is a must. Cooling experts Arctic reckons it has the…
I’ve never been that much of a Tolkien buff, but even I know a Lord of the Rings reference when I see one. Gundalf, Bilbao, and Legsolarse are much beloved characters for many of you (I’m told), so an exciting partnership between Palantir and Anduril should be right up your street. Okay, perhaps not quite…
“If you’re not directly working on the game, go away”. We know that Nintendo can be a little protective of its intellectual properties (now there’s an understatement), but it turns out that the company’s micromanagement was enough to make one artist on Metroid Prime 3: Corruption leave his position at Retro Studios. That’s according to…