Share of the Week: Pirates

Share of the Week: Pirates

Last week, we asked you to set sail and share swashbuckling moments as a pirate in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares leaping into the action in Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii MrioMoreno5 shares a council of pirates in Return to Monkey Island. JLunarTraveler…

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GBA Classic Sigma Star Saga Is Getting An Enhanced ‘DX’ Cartridge Release, 20 Years On

Collector’s edition also on the way. Limited Run Games has announced that WayForward’s 2005 GBA cult classic Sigma Star Saga is getting a re-release for Nintendo’s handheld. Sigma Star Story DX will feature an improved map, decreased random encounter rate, rebalanced EXP system, updated script, various bug fixes and other enhancements, according to the publisher….

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‘It was truly eye-opening to realize just how many people deeply love this type of game’: Inzoi director hopes his life sim will ‘bring comfort to many players’ lives’

Inzoi director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim is gearing up for his game to be the first one to actually stand toe-to-toe with The Sims—not that he views his life sim as competition to EA’s own, mind you. Considering this is the first time in over two decades that we’re seeing something release that’s seemingly close to…

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I can’t even handle one person in my Google Doc, yet this YouTuber invited over 800,000 people to vandalise his homework all at the same time

As someone who writes for a living, having someone jumping into my Google Docs to make sure I haven’t written something too abhorrent. It’s admittedly one of my least favourite parts of the process—what do you mean someone else has to read and perceive the things I’ve written, what the hell—and the thought of even…

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The co-creator of Dark Souls’ most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with ’10 bits of wood’

If you’ve played Dark Souls, chances are you remember Blighttown—and none too fondly. Rickety, thin platforms occupied by scab-coated poison dart shooters. Precarious walks above a fatal drop into the accursed toxic swamp below. And, lest we forget, the deadliest enemy of all: The framerate absolutely tanking on the Xbox 360. You remake-players on those…

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