Need to Know What is it? A sci-fi metroidvania with sublimely satisfying, parry-driven combat.Release date May 29, 2024Expect to pay $30/£25Developer Red Candle GamesPublisher Red Candle GamesReviewed on ASUS ROG ALLY, Gigabyte G5Steam Deck VerifiedLink Official site Six months. That’s how long poor Red Candle Games spent trying to come up with a combat move…
Baldur’s Gate 3 mods enjoyed a new set of tools last year as part of its seventh patch, tools which it only took erstwhile modders two days to unlock. These untapped kits allow these expeditionary tinkerers to create whole new campaigns, in the vein of Skyrim’s ambitious mods. At least, in theory. In practice, it’s…
The ongoing viability of Moore’s law is up for debate. But it seems Taiwanese megfab TSMC is determined to crank out new silicon regardless. The latest reports claim TSMC’s next-gen 2nm chip node, branded N2, is set for volume production later this year. However, it’s unlikely we’ll see TSMC N2 chips in our PCs until…
And it looks glorious. Artist and author Phillip Summers is back with another ‘Hand-Drawn Game Guide’, this time looking at the classic hard-as-nails action title Mega Man. Soaring past its Kickstarter funding goal in just 12 hours, the Capcom-licensed book is aiming to launch in August 2025 for backers and will boast over 200 pages…
Arrives January 16th. Another Konami arcade game is heading to Arcade Archives, as reported by Famitsu. This time it’s the bizarre sports-action racing game Escape Kids. Escape Kids sees up to four players running around a bunch of different themed courses on foot avoiding obstacles like bombs while collecting speed boosts, items to sabotage the…
Futuristic racer has been in development for a while. Nintendo’s F-Zero launched alongside the Super Famicom / SNES and gave players a taste of what the system was capable of thanks to its smoothly-rotating Mode 7 tracks. While the Amiga can’t replicate this graphic mode, it’s getting an F-Zero-style racer which at least aims to…
‘Ello ‘ello, got some bells, guv’nor? Following its previous aquarium tours in the US and Japan, Nintendo has now announced that it is collaborating with Sea Life on a new Animal Crossing: New Horizons tour event in the UK. Kicking off on 8th February 2025, the event will take place across five different locations across…
Version 0.8 is available now. Princess Crown is arguably one of the Sega Saturn’s best games, but it sadly never got released outside of Japan, meaning that very few people actually got to play it. Directed by George Kamitani, who would later found Vanillaware, this 1997 action RPG has had unofficial translation projects attached to…
There’s a lot of new stuff in Diablo 4 Season 7, AKA the Season of Witchcraft, like the suite of witch abilities including one that lets you summon poison frogs. But the thing that leaped out at me in Blizzard’s blog post about the upcoming season is that there’s a new pet, and for once…
Have a look at our hint for today’s Wordle if you need a hand with Wednesday’s puzzle. It’ll help make sense of the letters you’ve found so far (or help you find some, if you haven’t got any), but still leave all the fun word finding stuff up to you. The answer to the January…