In a new vlog on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG designer and Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain shared one of those great “told you so” anecdotes of gaming history: Interplay’s marketing department apparently hounded Cain to rebuild Fallout to be more like Diablo, rather than the turn-based RPG we got. A viewer asked Cain what…
“It made me nostalgic in all the right ways”. If you haven’t seen the new Nintendo Switch 2 commercial featuring Paul Rudd, where have you been? It’s a delightful throwback to one of the Ant Man and Anchorman actor’s first ever acting roles, a SNES commercial from 1991. It’s daft, it’s silly, and we didn’t…
Some Steam sales are wide open things: Any game can take part in one of the big four seasonal sales, for instance, as long as they’re on sale during the relevant season. There are also more specific sales, like the third-person shooter fest, or the political sim fest. Few, though, are as narrowly defined as…
Naming things is hard. Ask anyone in a creative line of work, and they’ll tell you as much. And according to the developers of Diablo 4, it’s particularly challenging to come up with new, morbid names for devilish challenges when the series you’re working on has been burning through death metal-adjacent material for almost 30…
What’s better than a heaping serving of premium crab? A second round, entirely free. Aggro Crab’s seafloor Sekiro-like Another Crab’s Treasure was a pleasure to play when it rolled out last year, with our deep-diver Abbie Stone giving it a very positive 80% review last April. It might be worth mentally adding a few points…
Pokécology launches in Japan in June. In one of the most novel ideas we’ve seen from The Pokémon Company, the media giant has revealed Pokécology, an official book that focuses on the behaviours of the fictional creatures. Reported on my Automaton Media, Pokécology will be released in Japan on 18th June 2025 by publisher Shogakukan,…
Note: Big ole spoilers for the thing you probably already know about in The Last of Us Season 2. Well, the thing happened in The Last of Us Season 2, the thing we’ve all been waiting for. It’s the thing even me, a guy who only played three hours of the first TLOU game and…
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience”. Anbernic, one of the leading makers of emulation handhelds, has said it will be suspending all orders to the United States following President Donald Trump’s introduction of tariffs on Chinese-made goods (thanks, Gizmodo). “Due to changes in U.S. tariff policies, we will be suspending all orders shipping from China…
The Playdate has been a lightning rod for critical darling game developers to do something weird and funky, like Lucas Pope’s take on Papers, Please about a bar on Mars, and now the team behind Into the Breach and FTL: Faster Than Light is joining the fun with an exclusive title of its own. At…
Nothing from Nintendo, yet. Walmart has updated its prices for the new Switch 2 amiibo, matching the price increases at retailer GameStop just last week. At the US retailer, prices for the brand new Zelda amiibo — that is, Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon, and Riju — are prices at USD $29.88 each, with the Street Fighter…