Princess Beach 2: The Beach Is Back. Yes, as you’ll likely know, Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima‘s incredibly good walking simulator, has got itself a fancy big sequel this week in the form of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, and we’ve been playing it in what little free time we’ve got (well, this writer has,…
“Ys… set me on the path to everything I’m doing now”. Falcom’s seminal Ys series of RPGs recently celebrated its 38th birthday, and this particular milestone put composer Yuzo Koshiro in a reflective mood. He began his career working with Falcom, and Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (1987) and Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished –…
Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft’s The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the “Stop Killing Games” initiative. As per a YouTube video (shared…
Contrary to numerous pessimistic prognostications over recent years, including by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Moore’s Law is very much alive and kicking. That’s the take-home according to a new roadmap from chip production research and engineering outfit IMEC. In fact, if IMEC’s roadmap is accurate, we already have a good idea how chip manufacturing is…
We’re all about innovation at PlayStation and finding new experiences everyone can enjoy, and today, we showcased four PS VR2 titles that players will be able to enjoy later this year. Dreams of Another | Coming to PS VR2 later this year Play Video The latest title in the PixelJunk series gives its first look…
Your chosen Fortnite landing spot can make or break your game. If you drop in an isolated part of the map, your loot will lag behind other players in mid and late-round fights. But land in a busy zone and you’ll be forced to fight multiple enemies at once, meaning an early trip back to…
At long last, Studio Chyr is revealing Hotel Infinity, our follow-up to Manifold Garden, which is coming to PS VR2 later this year. Hotel Infinity shares a lot of DNA with Manifold Garden, like exploring impossible spaces, but is set in a mysterious new universe that takes advantage of the unique experiences that only VR…
Here are the two things I enjoyed most about visiting Istanbul a few years ago. One: the comingling of millennia of history and a patchwork of cultures at the meeting point between Asia and Europe, a city that has more compacted history in a square metre than most places do in a square mile, an…
In a move that caught us somewhat off guard, Nvidia has just announced its series of GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for laptops and desktop graphics cards. The former was certainly expected, and while the latter has been rumoured for a while, we had expected more of a heads-up about it. Anyway, so what have we…
Asus had a clean sweep of the most important categories in our best gaming laptop lineup of the last generation. The ROG Zephyrus G16 was the outright best machine we’d used, and the 2024 forerunner to this ROG Zephyrus G14 was the absolute best compact gaming laptop you could buy. With this new generation of…