Saiyūki World 2 & Rod Land announced! City Connection has announced it will be bringing two more Jaleco-published Nintendo Famicom titles to the Nintendo Switch in the near future, as part of its JALECOlle Famicom Ver series of retro reissues. These include the Journey to the West-inspired platformer Saiyūki World 2 (which was localized as…
When Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer,…
Enter the ’90s. Note. Gex Trilogy isn’t playable on Switch 2 via backwards compatibility at the time of writing, although a patch has been submitted to Nintendo for review, according to Limited Run. We’ll update this note when we hear more. Dimitris Giannakis’s Carbon Engine is back on behalf of Limited Run Games, and, despite…
The threat of Generative AI is very real. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at present, and not always for positive reasons. While the relentless march of technology is giving us AI-based solutions for scientific and medical breakthroughs, the arrival of ‘Generative AI’—where AI text, audio, video and image models hoover up human-made content and…
An engineer toying around with ChatGPT found OpenAI’s apparently world-leading LLM getting a little bolshy about how it would do at chess. In fact, ChatGPT itself asked Citrix engineer Robert Caruso to set it up against a basic chess program to see “how quickly” it would win: and then proceeded to get battered by an…
Stray, a rather neat little puzzle-platformer about a cat in a post-apocalyptic robo-world, was fairly well received back in 2022. We gave it a solid 82 in our review, which made publisher Annapura’s collapse late last year all the more concerning for studio BlueTwelve. At the very least, however, Stray’s former writer is going places….
“Heat and cold, life and death…”. Pik-Sen Lim, the Penang-born British actress who most of us gamers will know immediately as the legendary narrator of the Dark Souls series, has passed away at the age of 80. As reported by the Malay Mail (thanks PC Gamer), the actress, who moved to the UK to pursue…
The Alphyn lineup is PowerColor’s first foray into the gaming headset market, having only specced into graphics cards until now. With the Alphyn AH10, the company hops out of the proverbial frying pan, into the highly competitive fire of wireless gaming headsets. At the $100 mark, this headset will have to do something particularly swanky…
We didn’t start the fire. Those looking for something to relax and unwind to after a tough day of Knockout Tour might want to check out Into The Emberlands, a “cosy roguelike” from developer Tiny Roar (XEL) and publisher Daedalic Entertainment that will be arriving on the Switch eShop on 2nd July. This one launched…
Where anything to do with AI is often promoted as being a new paradigm for humanity, it makes a pleasant change to get an AI tool that’s potentially very useful and, more importantly, is exactly what was promised. The fact that this has come from Microsoft is perhaps unexpected, but it really has given us…