There exists in biological sciences a principle called “carcinization.” This concept expounds on the fact that evolution has a tendency to lead animal life to eventually take the form of a crab. This has happened, quite independently, roughly half a dozen times throughout the history of our planet. Nature loves crabs, it seems. For my…
Let’s do the time warp again. On Western shores last yast year, Falcom started a fresh arc in its long-running flagship franchise with The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, breathing new life into the series while offering a great jump-in point for newcomers looking for a place to start. With the overall Trails series…
Midnight Wanderers was originally included in the ‘Three Wonders’ arcade compilation. The developer of the Castlevania fangame Maria Renard’s Revenge, DomKid, has announced that they currently are working on an exciting port of Capcom’s Midnight Wanderers for the Neo Geo. Midnight Wanderers, in case you’ve never heard of it, was a run ‘n gun platformer…
Blizzard has raised over $2 million for the charity CureDuchenne, using the seemingly irresistible lure of microtransactions for good. World of Warcraft players accomplished this via The Reven Pack (a cute little fox companion and a backpack to go with it), which Blizzard donated 100% of the purchase price of to CureDuchenne. Duchenne is one…
Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida has commented yet again on the controversial plugin that surfaced earlier this year, which exploited Dawntrail’s new-and-improved blacklist system, allowing users to read an account ID and therefore stalk a character and all of its alts. Thankfully, what Yoshi-P has to say this time is a lot…
Uses the Saturn’s XBAND modem. One of the key people behind the excellent Shining Force III translation project is currently in the process of hacking the game so it can be played online. Knight0fdragon is responsible for bringing the whole Shining Force III saga to English-speaking audiences, as, back in the day, only the first…
We’ve been tracking reports of problems with Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPUs for a little while, but they now seem to be hitting critical mass. It seems numerous owners of the new RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cards are suffering crashes and particularly black screens, with a few arguably less substantiated reports of “bricked” cards,…
With the public launch of Windows version 24H2 last year came a security issue that was only ‘resolved’ this week. Those who installed Windows 11 from a media file using the October or November version of the software seemingly can’t access any future security updates, and the solution is a fresh install of just the…
Marvel Rivals has overcome a couple of difficulties since it was released at the end of last year. This mostly involved improving performance or sorting out technical issues with the breakable environment or individual hero abilities, but now it looks like its security will be the next hurdle the devs need to overcome. A YouTuber…
Ah-woooooo! Publisher Pqube and PixelHeart, alongside developer Migami Games, have revealed that their new metroidvania Chronicles of the Wolf will be launching on Switch this Summer. This one looks like it will appeal specifically to Castlevania fans, and seems to be taking quite a few cues from Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. You’ve got day/night cycles,…