Not long to go now. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake launches for the Switch and Switch 2 next month, and to build some excitement, Square Enix has now released an extensive gameplay overview trailer. Over seven minutes, you can get a better look at the game’s exploration, combat, party lineup and more in…
“What fun memories do they bring back?”. Earlier this week, Ubisoft began its 30th anniversary celebrations for its famous video game mascot Rayman. Apart from the news he’ll be returning at some point in the future (with work on a new project now underway), Ubisoft is planning to reflect on the character’s career with behind-the-scenes…
The sketch-comedian-to-horror-movie-director pipeline is real. Jordan Peele went from Mad TV and Key & Peele to Get Out, Nope, and Us. Josh Ruben went from CollegeHumor to Werewolves Within, Heart Eyes, and Scare Me. And now Zach Cregger of The Whitest Kids U’ Know has become a horror-movie name to watch with Barbarian, Weapons, and…
Get your Sunday puzzle gaming off to a great start with our selection of hints for the September 7 (1541) Wordle, designed to smooth out a few problems without instantly giving away the latest winning word. Of course you might love the idea of someone instantly giving away the latest winning word, which is why…
Addressing crashes, save stability and much more. Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game admittedly didn’t get off to the best start when it launched on the Switch in July. Fortunately, the team at Weta Workshop has been busy improving the overall experience since then. With this in mind, the latest…
PlayStation 2 hack-and-slash The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a mainstay of the ports being begged for on the GOG dreamlist (though it doesn’t rank as high as bona fide classics like Silent Hill and The Simpsons: Hit & Run, of course). According to my memories of 2004 it deserves the nomination,…
First reported by Eurogamer, Paradox announced this weekend that PlayStation Store preorders of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 are being refunded with the instruction that customers renew their preorder after planned “adjustments” to the game and its price. This is in response to the backlash over core content being locked behind a $30 DLC,…
As reported by Eurogamer, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not met Chinese players’ expectations the way it has globally, with a 42% positive “Mixed” review status from nearly 20,000 Chinese language users, who say that the game’s localization was abysmally, uniquely poor. Team Cherry has already responded to the issue, promising to work on the Chinese…
As reported by the New York Times, AI company Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a groundbreaking copyright lawsuit involving some 500,000 authors. Anthropic illegally downloaded the authors’ books and used them to train its AI model. The total settlement for this case is the largest for any copyright case in U.S….
Penned by GamesIndustry.biz veteran James Batchelor. Author and former GamesIndustry.biz scribe James Batchelor has just announced that he’s written an unofficial history of the Pokémon video game franchise, and it’s coming out early next year. Published by White Owl Books, The History of the Pokémon Games will profile over 150 different games and will feature…