Ryu Ga Gotoku boss credits PC gamers’ love of Yakuza 0 with taking the series worldwide: ‘I truly believe we are where we are today because of them’

In a special interview as part of the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio director and executive producer Masayoshi Yokoyama explained how PC gamers’ embrace of the series finally helped it explode onto the world stage after years of only limited success outside Japan. “To us, PC gamers hold a special significance….

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It’s possible to get Silksong’s double jump in Act 1 well before you’re supposed to, you just have to be enough of a platforming god to prove you don’t need it

Cofy on YouTube has published a video guide for sequence breaking Hollow Knight: Silksong to unlock its double jump, the Faydown Cloak, before you’re supposed to and without the intended prerequisite items. The only catch is that it looks incredibly challenging to pull off, demanding both patience and twitch reflexes. Both Hollow Knights are deliciously…

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Scalpers are already selling the promise of an Asus ROG Xbox Ally X for over $2,000 when it’s still available for pre-order at half the price

If you have your eye on the upcoming Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC, be careful where you buy it from. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, scalpers are already trying to rip people off with eBay listings charging over two times MSRP—while the ROG Xbox Ally X is still available for pre-order at…

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After stumbling out of the gate with poor sales as a PS5 exclusive, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth director says it’s ‘doing very well on both PS5 and PC,’ while ‘a lot of the content is already playable’ in the upcoming third game

Speaking to Automaton, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi assured fans that sales of the game have improved since a 2024 Square Enix financial report showed it underperforming, while work on a third game in the Remake trilogy continues apace. “The second entry, FFVII Rebirth, has been doing very well on both PS5 and…

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‘Something we try might go wrong or it might not be good, but we’ll address it’: 2XKO director promises the team is committed to the new League of Legends fighting game

Just a couple weeks out from its early access release on October 7, League of Legends fighting game 2XKO’s director is giving players a fair warning that the spin-off might not be perfect—not because it’s rife with issues, but because Riot wants to try out new ideas with its first foray into the genre. So,…

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‘The team wanted to present more than a postcard or a backdrop’: Forza Horizon 6 devs credit road trips and Hot Wheels DLC for upcoming racer

The next stop in the Forza series will be Japan in Forza Horizon 6, but the team at Playground Games has had a long road to get there, one that included, oddly enough, Hot Wheels. In an interview with GamesRadar, Forza Horizon 6 art director Don Arceta dove into how Playground Games prepared to recreate…

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Don’t Lie is a freaky new horror game about a reclusive ‘hikikomori’ trapped in liminal spaces with terrifying hallucinations and so very many eyes

Do you ever feel a bit funny and then realize you’ve not left your apartment in five days? No, just me then? Broken Lore: Don’t Lie, a spin-off of the horror game Don’t Watch, encapsulates that feeling and then some. It puts you in the shoes of Junko, an isolated young woman losing her grip…

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New party game Task Time promises ‘unlimited chaos’ with over 500,000 task variations and the instruction to ‘do what it takes’ to win

Does it ever feel like videogames just have you completing random tasks? In Task Time, that’s the whole point. From developer ReadGraves, whose staff includes Fall Guys and Gang Beasts developers, comes a party game that promises more than 500,000 task variations for you and your friends to do. Revealed today for the first time…

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