Our favourite city builder of 2024, Manor Lords, is having a pretty great 2025 as well. Following a meaty update that introduced a pair of new maps, bridges, building upgrades and a bunch of fixes, it’s now hit the 3 million sales mark. Not bad for solo developer Slavic Magic—though that characterisation did net the…
In the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, figuring out how to beat Doshaguma is your core competency test. As one of Wilds’ newcomers to the roster, it’s a mainstay monster of the Windward Plains region, and the quest to slay an Alpha Doshaguma is the beta test’s default objective for hunter hopefuls proving their salt. Still,…
Sonic X Shadow and Sonic 3 movie bring results. Sega Sammy has published its Q3 2024/25 financial results, which cover up to 31st December 2024, and it shows mixed results for the company (via GamesIndustry.biz). While the Entertainment sector has seen an 8.1% increase in net sales to ¥238.6 billion, its overall net sales are…
The footage was shown as part of the company’s weekly livestream. The Japanese video game company Hamster showed off something truly remarkable yesterday on its weekly livestream. While advertising its recent emulation-based reissue of Namco’s 1988 arcade game Märchen Maze for PS4 and Nintendo Switch, it published some incredible never-before-seen footage of an early prototype…
If you own a Netgear router it may well be time to check for updates, as the company has released a security advisory to update the firmware as soon as possible on several models. While details are thin on the ground, it appears two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities have been patched for multiple WiFi…
Category: Games February 7, 2025 Avowed and the Living Lands Are the Next Great Frontier for Obsidian Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary The Living Lands in Avowed is an entirely new region to explore within the Pillar’s of Eternity universe of Eora. The environmental designs feed into the ethos of player choice, with a…
New GPUs selling out in picoseconds has depressingly become the norm. That includes, inevitably, Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series graphics cards. Maybe that’s why when AMD yesterday asked gamers to say what they were most “excited” about for the upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, “availability would be a brilliant start,” pretty much sums up the sentiment. Of…
Sports Interactive has announced the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, an unexpected and in the context of the series unprecedented decision. Football Manager games have been coming out like clockwork since 2004 under SI and SEGA, never missing a year in those two decades, and even the initial delays to FM25 were unheard-of for…
Update: Pre-orders open now. Edia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta has teased another new retro project, this time based on Wolf Team’s “Anett and Earnest” trilogy. This series includes the Genesis game El Viento (1991) and the Sega CD titles Earnest Evans (1991) and Anett Futatabi (1993). Read…
The Switch version is fine, though. Hideki Kamiya has stated on social media that he would rather players not experience Okami via the 2008 Wii port (thanks, Automaton). Originally released on PS2 back in 2006, Okami’s move to the Wii was handled by the now-defunct American studio, Ready at Dawn. When creator Kamiya was approached…