“No two games play alike and they are all designed to be fun as possible”. The name ZSNES will be instantly familiar with anyone who was emulating video games back in the late ’90s and early 2000s. One of the earliest SNES emulators, ZSNES launched all the way back in 1997 and was created by…
“we know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date”. After 28 long years, Final Fantasy Tactics is finally getting the remaster it (hopefully) deserves when The Ivalice Chronicles launches on Switch on 30th September 2025. According to director Kazutoyo Maehiro, however, development on the upcoming remaster wasn’t…
Based on Clamp’s manga series. Clamp’s Chobits series is perhaps more important than ever right now, thanks to the fact that the world is currently going AI-crazy and chatbots are telling us to glue pizza and eat rocks. The original manga started in 2000, and tells the story of college student Hideki Motosuwa, who finds…
AMD is barely manufacturing any RDNA 4-based graphics cards. It’s hard to avoid that conclusion if the latest data from long-time PC market data analyst JPR is correct. JPR reckons that AMD’s share of the add-in graphics card market has fallen to a miserable 6%, leaving Nvidia with the remaining 94% of the market. There’s…
Someone jammed the Stalker tap in the ‘on’ position and now no one can turn it off. After Stalker: Call of Prypiat released in 2009, we were stuck waiting 15 years for another entry in the series (and it was just as wonderful and busted as ever), and now we seem to be awash in…
Just earlier this year, the US DOJ came in hot arguing “Google must divest the Chrome browser”, and accusing it of dominance “through its unlawful and unchecked, monopolistic conduct over the past decade.” For a while, it felt like something might happen to break it apart, and now it appears this was all bluster. As…
I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a series that ‘plays it safe’ more than Borderlands—and this isn’t an insult. Every game I’ve played in the series has taken the same formula and added another nice crunchy little layer on top of it, and as a result, I’ve enjoyed basically every one I’ve touched. It’s…
With ultra-realistic, ray-traced graphics being the norm for developers wanting to show off the power of their proprietary game engine, you expect PC hardware requirements for such releases to focus almost entirely on the graphics card. Unusually, though, the freshly-released system specs for Dying Light: The Beast go very much the other way, suggesting that…
Series was designed to help Japanese gamers learn English. Back in 1994, Koei released EMIT, a visual novel series designed to help Japanese players learn the English language. Released in three volumes – Lost in Time, A Life-and-Death Trip and Bid Myself Farewell – EMIT would come to Mac, Windows, PC-9801, SEGA Saturn, Super Famicom,…
“We are working hard on solutions and new schedules”. Earlier this week, ININ Games issued a statement to its community, announcing a delay for two of its games that were scheduled to launch this month: Parasol Superstars and Trouble Witches Final: Episode 1 – Daughters of Amalgam. In case you’ve not been following along at…