Back in 2019, a live-action version of Final Fantasy 14—the critically-acclaimed MMORPG with an expanded free trial, you know the one—was in the works. Announced as a collaboration between Sony Pictures Television and Hivemind (responsible for Netflix’s The Witcher series), it seemed like a natural pairing. Unfortunately, it looks like that particular project is dead…
Who gave Tails a gun? The Mega Drive / Genesis developer Shane Lynch recently revealed on Twitter that he is working on a new ROM hack for the original Sonic the Hedgehog that will let a second player plug in a lightgun and blast away at badniks, power-ups, and rings in the environment. To accompany…
Way back in January 1999, the Washington Post got wind of what it declared to be the infamous “Furby Alert”. Now official documents proving the story was indeed real have been released. Yes, the NSA really was worried the fuzzy toy that parroted back whatever it heard, which was all the rage back in the…
Palworld has taken off—with a huge player count that’s set Steam records, its own controversies surrounding unfortunate game mechanics, and AI worries. Now it has a roadmap, as posted to the game’s official Discord server this morning. (Image credit: Pocketpair) The top priority for developer Pocketpair appears to be bug fixes, like stopping your save…
That’s just what I wanted to see! Listen, Bandai Namco isn’t interested in Ridge Racer anymore. We know that’s a hard fact to take in, but the sooner we all get used to it, the better. Right, now we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can move on to the topic at hand –…
AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) technology sounds like it’s something that shouldn’t really work and yet it does: enable frame generation to get a performance boost, simply by enabling it in the drivers. At first, only Radeon RX 7000-series owners could use it, but that expanded to include RX 6000 and RDNA mobile chips during…
Fibre-wired. Before IO Interactive blew everyone’s socks off with the sublime World of Assassination Trilogy, Hitman: Blood Money was widely considered to be the crown jewel of the stealth franchise. In fact, many consider Blood Money to be the progenitor of World of Assassination; a game that thrives on freedom of choice, offering up a…
There’s so much to count! Since its inception in 1986, Konami’s Castlevania has become one of gaming’s most recognisable and popular franchises. Many of its instalments are considered amongst the best games of all time, and its impact has been felt well beyond the realm of interactive entertainment – it has recently been turned into…
Woomy! Nintendo is back with yet another update for the slick squid shooter Splatoon 3. The latest patch brings the game up to ver. 6.1.0 and is available to download today. The focus appears to have been on multiplayer modes and weapon rebalancing this time around, though we will also see changes made to Mincemeat…
SoMoGa, Inc. teases more news coming this Spring. The 2012 iOS port of the RPG classic Lunar: Silver Star Story is heading to Android devices later this month on January 26th (as reported by Pocket Gamer). Originally released for the Sega CD as Lunar: The Silver Star in 1992, the RPG later received an enhanced…