Gentlemen, start your engines… Sony’s PlayStation console is now in its fifth generation, and during the past 30 years, we’ve seen 3D gaming evolve into offering unprecedented levels of realism, online connectivity become the norm and digital downloads dominate the sales charts. One thing that hasn’t improved all that much is boot time—and by that,…
Stealing more time. After a handful of delays, we are slowly creeping up on the April 2025 release window for Level-5’s much-anticipated Fantasy Life follow-up, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. With the countdown officially on (assuming it isn’t pushed again, of course), Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has taken to Twitter to share…
At CES 2025, Nvidia announced so many new things that it was somewhat hard to figure out just what was really worth paying attention to. While the likes of the RTX 5090 and its enormous price tag were grabbing all the headlines, one new piece of tech sat to one side with lots of promise…
Another stopgap? Before Kirby and the Forgotten Land swooped in with its excellent 3D take on the classic Kirby formula, Kirby: Planet Robobot for 3DS was widely regarded as the best entry in the series. Now, according to reliable leaker Nate the Hate, the 2016 platformer may be getting a similar treatment to Luigi’s Mansion…
SimCity 3D launched back in February 2006. The feature phone preservationist XYZ has recently preserved the Japanese-exclusive feature phone game SimCity 3D, as reported by RockmanCosmo on social media. SimCity 3D is an “expanded” version of EA’s SimCity Network Edition, licensed and developed by Hudson Soft. It featured “enhanced” 3D graphics that let the players…
Staying on the straight and narrow is a tough task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s medieval Bohemia. Henry is constantly tempted away from the honest path by violence, banditry, and a seemingly endless number of locked chests with all sorts of loot inside. This can make getting the best ending a real challenge. This isn’t…
It’s been confirmed for a while that the Final Fantasy 14, which reached its 10th year recently, has been a load-bearing game for Square Enix’s balance sheets. That was as per a fiscal report ending in March 2024 (the pre-Dawntrail times) that saw it making up 68.4% of its operating profits. This was then confirmed…
It’s my understanding that, for some reason, people keep making ARPGs. This befogs me. As a people, we really kind of hit the nail on the head with Diablo 1. Do we need more? More enemies? More loot? More graphics? Of course not. We only need more ways to play Diablo 1 on more and…
I’ve seen some wild and wacky PC cooling solutions in my time, but this one might beat them all: An RTX 4090 cooled with a household air conditioner. Chinese techtuber 电解碳酸钠 (which machine translates to “Electrolytic sodium carbonate”) has shown off the extreme cooling system in a video on Bilibili. The channel says that it’s…
New survey reveals retro is alive and well. We know that retro gaming is big business, but there are so many ways to play old-school games these days that you can be a fan of classic gaming and not own original hardware; consoles like the Switch and PS5 give access to titles digitally, and we’ve…