If you thought the latest tsunami of awfulness to crash over the videogame industry would be contained to yesterday, I have bad news. Romero Games, the studio founded in 2015 by industry legends Brenda and John Romero, announced today that funding for its latest project has been cut off, and it’s been forced to lay…
I’m going to admit something here. I’ve never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of tech. That’s why my eye was immediately drawn to a device built to play whack-a-mole with what many people my age consider the ‘save…
It’s fair to say that, compared to CPUs and graphics cards, power supply units aren’t really PC components that normally get one’s hardware juices flowing. They’re mightily important, of course, and you should always get the best you can afford, but once they’re hidden in the depths of your gaming rig, you’ll never pay much…
The Last of Us HBO’s third and fourth seasons won’t have Neil Druckmann at the wheel, it’s been revealed, nor will it have Halley Gross. Druckmann co-created the original The Last of Us game, and directed The Last of Us Part 2 (which Gross also co-wrote). Druckmann broke the news on his Instagram: “I’ve made…
10 games, 4 now playable on NS2. Switch 2 brought some long-awaited GameCube games into the fold along with the other Nintendo Switch Online retro libraries when it launched. With The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and SoulCalibur 2 joining the system’s launch lineup, Super Mario Strikers made it a foursome this week, and Nintendo has…
Missile Command Delta! Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia! And…uh… The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. After the chaos of June, it’s a pretty quiet one this week, but Switch 2 NSO Expansion Pack owners can diver into Super Mario…
With increasing frequency, AI is pitched as the solution to a non-existent problem. For starters, Google’s Veo 3 became widely available as a public preview last month, allowing folks to create AI-generated video with disquieting robo-voice-over to boot. Now, a recent exchange on X suggests that a more immersive feature set that would allow users…
Getting mutations on your crops and plants in Grow a Garden is key to making more money. As soon as your harvest is tagged with modifiers like “windswept”, “honey glazed”, or even something as simple as “wet”, you’ll immediately earn more when you decide to sell them. If you’re desperate to increase your bank account,…
But there’s no shaking pole position. We are back with an updated look at the Japanese physical charts, courtesy of Famitsu, and while pole position has remained ever-steady, a couple of newbies have shaken up the rest of the proceedings. Surprising nobody, Mario Kart World is still in first place after having put up an…
Peak rose to fame almost overnight with this indie co-op climbing game selling two million copies in just nine days. But with this success came a little chaos. Developers Aggro Crab and Landfall came together to make this game for a game jam and as a way to decompress from making bigger games, it was…