QTE in the place to be. If you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to upcoming and newly released games of late, you’ll no doubt already know all about Sandfall Interactive’s stunning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Indeed, this very writer slapped a 10/10 score on the new RPG over at our sister siter Pure Xbox, so…
Mark your calendars. Hilltop, the localization lead on the fan translation of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, has teased “a special game announcement” at the next Wholesome Direct, taking place on Saturday, June 7th. The prolific fan translator and hacker didn’t specify exactly what this announcement would entail, only that it would offer a look at…
Fortnite’s come a long way since its days of being a slightly strange sandbox survival/tower defense hybrid. It’s held virtual concerts, let me gun down Godzilla as Hatsune Miku, and lest we forget the bizarre Star Wars event in 2019 where players were treated to an exclusive broadcast that was later referenced in Rise of…
A step in the right direction. In addition to the overall firmware update for the Switch, Nintendo has provided an update to the (now red) Switch eShop that is very welcome in one way, and perhaps not so welcome in another. To put it simply, changes applied to the ‘Charts’ and ‘Current Offers’ pages now…
Sega Europe is leaving its Brentford-based office for pastures new. Since 2004, the friendly face of Sonic the Hedgehog has gazed down on the M4 motorway in Brentford, West London, thanks to the fact that it’s attached to the building that has served as Sega Europe’s home for over two decades. While the company has…
I’m gonna be so real with you right now: the most coding I’ve done in the last year is tinkering in narrative tools like Twine and Ink—both of which are programs geared towards writers such as myself who respect more technical coding as much as they fear it. Still, turning to AI to generate code…
Y’know… just in case. Virtual Game Cards is now a thing for the Nintendo Switch, letting you easily ‘eject and load’ titles from one console to another and lend digital games to family and friends, while providing a more elegant solution to redownloading your eShop games. One small, yet notable addition includes the ability to…
It’s hard to imagine Eric Barone saying that he failed in any aspect regarding Stardew Valley. What started out as a simple Harvest Moon clone, a way to teach him how to code and perfect pixel art, evolved into a phenomenon that is still having a lasting impact on the cosy farming sim genre. But…
Stardew Valley has become the backbone of farming simulators since its launch in 2016, and the impact it had on the genre and the games that followed is clear as day. As soon as a trailer for a new farming simulator drops, someone will make a comparison with Stardew Valley, no matter how far a…
Intel seems to have been on the gaming performance improvement grind lately, and it’s now claiming a significant uplift in its new low-power chips thanks to driver updates. This is particularly good news for us PC gamers because it means some high-end handhelds and low-power laptops should get a free boost for gaming. In a…