Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer (and, recently, creative director) has retired from Wizards of the Coast after 28 years at the company—as announced on his Bluesky profile late last week: “Today I retire from Wizards after 28 years,” Perkins writes. “With D&D’s 50th anniversary wrapping up and the revised rulebooks doing gangbusters, this is…
The Light Gun, or something else? Polymega System Software Update 1.1.34 is now live, and while it doesn’t do much on the surface, one aspect of the change log could prove to be interesting in the long run. According to the official Polymega site, this update adds support for “future Polymega hardware.” This could refer…
Heads up ‘ H.E.R.O’ gamers! As Liqmatrix recently informed us, that ‘H.E.R.O, which is a game that was released for the Atari 800/2600, ColecoVision, C64, C128, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, has been remade for PC, and available to download through itch io by Langford Productions . A classic game which puts you in control of Roderrick…
After Hatsune Miku’s reign as Fortnite Festival’s icon during Season 7, a new heir must take the throne. For Season 8, that would be Sabrina Carpenter. After a very obvious teaser was shared on the official Fortnite social media pages, it wasn’t hard to guess that the pop star would be the next mascot for…
It’s about family. Families, huh? They can cause us all manner of headaches. Sometimes they invade your personal space or take your favourite shirt without asking, and sometimes they get banished as a child and return home to try to take their rightful place on the throne. Between all of the turn-based combat and extended…
When Sony’s masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on the humble PC two years ago, I hoped it would become a watershed moment in the history of console ports. Well, it was, but for all the wrong reasons—buggy and unstable, it hogged your CPU and GPU like nothing else, and most controversially of…
Buffering… Last week’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct was absolutely bursting at the seams with new announcements for the company’s upcoming console. Yet thanks to some frustrating technical difficulties during the livestream, you might have missed a couple of bangers from publisher Devolver Digital. Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions and Enter the Gungeon 2 are both heading for…
Includes “400 original sketches, illustrations, 3D renders, and more”. A bunch of Shenmue development materials have just been archived online, thanks to the Shenmue-dedicated website Shenmue Dojo. This includes “over 400 original sketches, illustrations, 3D renders & more” from the early development of the game, including the period in which Yu Suzuki’s team at Sega…
Trump’s tariffs seem to be putting a thorn in the side of major hardware manufacturers, as both Nintendo and modular laptop maker Framework announced order delays in the span of just one week. Posted to the Framework X account (via Ars Technica), Framework’s tweet states, “Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on…
“It’s not as good”. Henk Rogers and Nintendo have a long history. After cooking up the influential Black Onyx, Rogers worked with Nintendo to release titles on the Famicom in the ’80s before helping to secure the home console rights to Tetris, a puzzler which helped turn the Game Boy into a multi-million-selling success. Rogers…