I had the joy of playing Crimson Desert, the first proper singleplayer effort by Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss, again this week—and while I had some sense of how the game works, given I played it during Gamescom last year, getting my hands on it in an air-conditioned London building rather than a stuffy,…
45 minutes of announcements. Exactly one year on from its debut presentation, The Triple-i Initiative is back for another round of news drops and announcements. The show is set to kick off in just a few minutes, promising 45 minutes of world premieres, gameplay reveals and launch dates from over 30 developers. The dev lineup…
It’s not long into Blue Prince when you first find “The Foundation”—a rare draftable room that has the unique attribute of always appearing in the same place on the map. This permanent room has some noteworthy features, like dirt floors with several diggable spots and three doors in the east, west, and south walls. Most…
Party on! Hello, yes, we’re back with the boxed charts over in Japan. Apologies for missing last week, it was quite a busy one for Team NL, as I’m sure you can imagine. This week, Super Mario Party Jamboree is once again at the top, selling another 11,487 copies. It’s not the biggest increase we’ve…
Black Mirror Season 7 has begun streaming on Netflix, and one of its episodes, “Plaything,” is about a sim game from the 1990s where players care for little critters in the wild and teach them to survive on their own. The fictional game is called Thronglets, and guess what? It’s not so fictional after all….
As you explore the mysterious mansion in Blue Prince, you’re going to find the dartboard puzzle pretty quickly and pretty often. Located in the billiards room, the dartboard contains a math puzzle that isn’t easy to solve unless you’ve worked out the rules. You’ll want to get good at the Blue Prince dartboard puzzle since…
The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince—and I’m talking about the first time I played a demo way back in March of 2024—I noticed something interesting about one of its rooms. I won’t say what it was that I noticed—I’m going to be obnoxiously vague throughout this…
Category: Games April 10, 2025 Free Play Days – Moving Out 2 and Crime Boss: Rockay City Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox We’ve got double trouble this weekend with Free Play Days! Moving Out 2 and Crime Boss: Rockay City are available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday…
The port is based on the WonderSwan remake of the 1989 Game Boy title. Yesterday, it was announced that the feature phone preservation community had managed to find a way to locate and preserve a previously lost i-Mode port of the first-ever SaGa game, Makai Toushi SaGa — a title that is perhaps better known…
It’s that time of the GPU season where we patiently await affordable graphics cards after the initial high-end launches (and yes, referring to a generation as a ‘GPU season’ is a thing, okay). And while there’s no official word yet from Nvidia or AMD regarding new low-end cards, rumours and leaks abound, the latest being…