The Day Before studio asks whether you’re going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game’s catastrophic performance to a ‘hate campaign’ by ‘bloggers’

Fntastic, maker of the comprehensively disastrous The Day Before, has released a statement to combat “misinformation” circulating online about the game and the circumstances of its collapse. If you’ve forgotten, The Day Before was, once upon a time, the most wishlisted game on Steam. It was a zombie survival game that played Pied Piper to…

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Lenovo Legion Go review

Four years ago gaming handhelds were only just appearing on my radar. Today, we’ve multiple options from some of the biggest manufacturers around. You can add Lenovo to that list, too, as the company has put together what has to be the sleekest-looking gaming handheld I’ve used so far. The Lenovo Legion Go is an…

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‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award

It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO, Enrique Lores, says HP wants to “make printing a subscription.” Nice. Not. It’s well known that printers are routinely sold…

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Final Fantasy 14’s live-action TV series is ‘dead’ due to a scale that ‘proved too much’, with Covid-19 twisting the knife

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…

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Palworld releases roadmap with big promises but no dates: PvP, new islands, raid bosses, and an end to Game Pass woes

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…

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