There are plenty of potentially intense romances to get involved in with your Tav in Baldur’s Gate 3, ranging from being pummeled by your new ‘hot githyanki girlfriend’ to getting fresh with a full-grown bear, but none are potentially as hot as the ability to romance Raphael, the silky-tongued proprietor of the House of Hope…
“What can AMD do to ensure availability at close to MSRP as you can get it?” That was the question put to AMD’s David McAfee regarding the company’s new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards. We’ll come to his answer momentarily, but to provide a little context, Chinese graphics card maker Yeston reckons…
When it comes to PC gaming peripherals, I don’t think many cause more arguments than keyboards—especially mechanical ones. These pressure input devices come in a huge variety of options depending on your preference, catering to things like size, feel, and of course look. Cherry is a well known name in the space, famous for delivering…
When Lunar debuted in North America in 1993, it was a standout in the emerging Western market for Japanese RPGs. Lunar featured detailed, animated cinematic cutscenes, plenty of voice acting, high-quality music, and–most importantly–an endearing story packed with engaging and memorable characters. While it wasn’t the first CD-ROM-based JRPG to hit the market, it was…
If there’s one thing that can be relied upon in our increasingly confusing digital age, it’s the jiggly opiate of the masses that games like Zenless Zone Zero provide. Gachas ostensibly make their money peddling cute anime girls (and boys, to be fair) to the average consumer. This isn’t an assertion I’m making so much…
Call me soft, but I’m still sad about the sudden, undignified death of Volition, the 30-year-old Saints Row studio that got executed by the Embracer Group after the latter’s $2-billion mystery deal—pitched as a “groundbreaking strategic partnership”—collapsed at the last minute. With Embracer scrambling to stay afloat and Volition’s final game, a rebooted Saints Row,…
Currently sits at PEGI 18 in the UK. The visual novel The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty launched on Steam last April, and it was a hit — like, one million copies sold, 40,000+ ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ reviews kind of a hit. Those who had been waiting for the title to come to…
Malasombra is now on Kickstarter. A new action-adventure platformer for the NES has just begun crowdfunding on Kickstarter and has already sailed past its initial target of €10,000, earning €31,819 as of the time of writing (over three times the amount the developers initially set out to raise). Malasombra is the work of a group…
Even for a lack of dedicated microphone, software, or lighting, the latest addition to Sennheiser’s headset lineup is looking pretty tasty for gamers. Sennheiser just needs to get the pricing right. Joining the likes of the HD 650, HD 800 S, and HD 599, the new HD 550 sit in the ‘entry-level’ category for Sennheiser….
“I think that they seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games”. Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs for his remarkable achievement with the ‘Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games’ YouTube channel. As part of that, he conducted an interview with…