“The responsibility lies totally with me”. When Sega announced it had picked up the rights to the Thunder Force series in 2007 and that it intended to produce a sixth game in the shmup franchise, there was plenty of room for optimism. For one, Thunder Force had become one of the premier shooter series of…
The promise of any Monster Hunter game is twofold—there’s gonna be a ton of meticulously designed titans on offer, and you’re gonna get to smack the nuggets out of them with all sorts of guns, clubs, and musical instruments. I can’t help but feel a little bad, then, when a teaser like the one Capcom…
There’s only three weeks to go until Dave The Diver gets yet another round of unlikely crossover DLC, with Ichiban Kasuga of Yakuza/Like A Dragon fame joining the rotund fisherman out in the waters of the Blue Hole. First revealed last month with a broad ‘April’ release window, the latest Dev Dive vlog from very-not-indie…
Last week, we asked you to focus your lens on the various monsters of Monster Hunter Wilds using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: shimo_ps shares their hunter taking on an Arkveld in the desert xenobitz shares a Lala Barina in the dark forest SyrenSigh shares a slimy Nu Udra Lny_Trpr_EE7 shares an angry…
The Assassin’s Creed Shadows Tea Ceremony quest is one of your first major hurdles, tasking you with infiltrating a gathering of wealthy Sakai individuals to uncover the identity of the Golden Teppo. If you’re not playing in canon mode, you’ll have to correctly respond and interact with the ceremony goers so as not to blow…
When I was just a boy, my father dutifully collected a set of Natwest pigs, hopeful that one day they may be worth enough for my first rent payment. Spoiler: They were not. Anyway, according to reports (via HKEPC), MSI has launched a promotion whereby Taiwanese residents who collect nine Lucky Dragon figurines can exchange…
It’s not as risqué as you might think. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch has been rated 12+ by PEGI (Pan European Game Information), just like every other entry in the series. What folks have seemingly noticed, however, is that the new release comes with an added ‘sex’ warning as part of the overall…
It’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) season, which means it’s time for industry luminaries from across the globe to descend on San Francisco to talk about, you know, advancements in SpeedTree and what-have-you. It’s also time for a shadowy camarilla of “leading game creators from all parts of the industry” to hand out the Game Developers…
Reviewing Colorful’s RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan has kinda felt like my very own savage journey into the heart of the GPU dream. ‘You took too much, man. Too much. Too much.’ This is the overriding thought left looping around my head after having benchmarked the card to hell and back over the past few weeks….
Final Fantasy 14’s patch 7.2 is coming soon—which means preliminary patch notes. While these aren’t usually of much interest, with much of the meat contained in the game’s live letters, one particular note leapt out at me: FF14’s making changes to its blacklist. I wrote a full story on this back in January, but here’s…