“There’s practically nothing to work on”. When the director of Square Enix’s recent Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles remaster, Kazutoyo Maehiro, admitted that the company no longer had the source code for the original PlayStation version, it keenly illustrated how preservation wasn’t a key concern for many developers in the ’90s. Now, Naoki…
Alongside a new free update. Nintendo has announced that Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will be arriving alongside a new free Ver. 3.0 update on 15th January. The Switch 2 Edition includes all sorts of new features to make the most of the new console. There’s Mouse Mode integration for improved…
It’s-a me! Mari— wait, what? This review was originally published in October 2010. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GameCube library on Switch 2. Enjoy! Nintendo has always had a dark side. Though it’s built up a name for itself as a family-friendly…
Stop Killing Games‘ EU initiative had a second wind earlier this year, going from a bit of doom and gloom to 400,000 extra signatures past the requirement to get it in front of the European Commission, via a European Citizens’ Initiative. For context, Stop Killing Games is a movement designed to require game companies to…
From “Marioooo?” to “?ooooiraM”. Spooky season is well and truly upon us, and Nintendo has marked the occasion by dropping the excellent Luigi’s Mansion onto the Switch 2’s GameCube NSO library. Many of us will be diving back in today for the first time in decades, but with so many hours spent with Luigi’s Mansion…
Deciding whether to plug in the Automechanical Targeting Module in The Outer Worlds 2 is one of those early game decisions where you might second-guess yourself a bit. You first find this module if you choose Security instead of Central Dispatch, inside a hanging Dragoon Automech that you can interact with in a side room….
Arc Raiders is out, the day is today, you can finally go topside to strip evil AI Arc robots for parts and get more trinkets for Scrappy. I’ll be playing (once I get this darn news story out of the way), and it looks like loads of other people are too. Launching at 5:30am EDT…
World of Warcraft‘s Legion Remix has been proceeding about as expected. That is, to say, a fun little romp through a beloved expansion where Blizzard has had to nerf elite farming, because if there’s one thing a WoW player loves doing, it’s optimising a grind so hard it requires intervention. Remix is also a novel…
It should be no surprise that there’s a terrifying-yet-terrific variety of high-profile essentials and indie classics available on PlayStation Plus via your PS4 and PS5. And with the spooky season upon us it’s only right to dive into some devilish delights that can turn your Halloween – and any future fangs-givings – into a night…
Late last year, we reported on controversy surrounding NZXT’s “Flex” PC rental scheme. Back then, NZXT founder and CEO Johnny Hou posted a YouTube video apologising for various failures and promising to do better. But it turns out whatever measures NZXT put in place haven’t been enough for some customers, following the filing of a…