I wasn’t sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark if I had put conscious effort into it. It is…
The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is just as interested in letting you lazily explore its open world as it is slicing enemies apart with energy swords. If you ignore the Iron Man-style mech suit, Titanic Scion…
Speaking as my own harshest critic, I can understand how difficult it is to break out of habitual self-deprecation. Luckily, with some healthy introspection, understanding, and awareness, it’s something we can unlearn. Unluckily for large language models, those are three capabilities they fundamentally lack. If an LLM is, for example, trained on an entire internet’s…
First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games’ emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games. On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in…
Ubisoft is no stranger to its videogame news leaking ahead of time, but this is the first time I can remember one of its TV shows leaking early. And the leak is coming from inside the house: an article about a new television project appeared on Ubisoft’s own news site over the weekend but was…
The internet, which was once a useful thing, is about to become a little less so: A new report from The Verge says Reddit is going to start blocking the Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content. The Wayback Machine, part of the Internet Archive, takes “snapshots” of websites as they exist at various…
If the words “King of Dragon Pass” don’t mean anything to you, you owe it to yourself to correct that. Originally released in 1999, it and its Six Ages successors are some of the finest fantasy in videogames, with systems-driven storytelling involving everything from settling multigenerational cattle disputes to undertaking mythic quests in the realm…
And the book’s still open. 25 years ago today, 11th August, Mario jumped into a whole new dimension. Today marks the anniversary of the N64 turn-based RPG, Paper Mario — which is a pretty big deal, because that means the entire series is also celebrating its quarter-century anniversary. Feeling old yet? Read the full article…
As reported by TheGamer, BioWare producer Mark Darrah opened up about the history of attempted Dragon Age remasters and remakes at BioWare in a recent interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube. The former BioWare dev thinks a remaster of the first three Dragon Age games is the best shot the series has at a future, but…
Civilization 7 got off to a rough start when it dropped earlier this year: Systemic changes, particularly the addition of “ages,” proved deeply divisive, but there was also a slew of more basic problems with bugs, AI issues, and a widely-disliked UI. It remains stuck with a “mixed” user rating on Steam, and concurrent player…