Shuffle and splash. If you’re heading to the public bath at Tokyo Plaza Harajuku Harakado in Japan next week, then you might get a little surprise in the form of Super Mario-themed hanafuda cards. Nintendo is teaming up with Kosugiyu Harajuku (via Famitsu, Siliconera) to allow people who visit the B1 floor bath to play…
I was a videogame-obsessed teenager in the 1990s and it seemed like every single gaming magazine (and several of my friends) had one holy grail: The Tomb Raider nude code. The small detail of Core Design’s blockbuster adventure game not actually having one was irrelevant: Thanks to a few doctored screenshots and irrepressible playground murmurings,…
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Tim and Kristen discuss all the big news for this week’s State of Play, including Saros, the upcoming new game from Housemarque, and some of their other favorite moments from the show. Stuff We Talked About Next week’s release highlights: Tomb…
Category: Games February 14, 2025 Fahmi’s Swan Song: Afterlove EP – Life, Love, and Music in Jakarta Sasha Ariana, Lead Narrative Designer Summary Afterlove EP is a new slice-of-life adventure from the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After. Pikselnesia shares how the team navigated its own grief alongside the game’s emotional beats after…
Strix Halo, AMD’s upcoming and extremely large APU, has finally seen some benchmarks in 3DMark Time Spy. These early results are in line with its Geekbench debut last December. This is not only a potential affirmation of what we previously saw but a sign its performance may be a little worse than we expected (hoped)….
As we know all too well at this point, Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki freaking loves a poison swamp. They’ve become a staple of FromSoftware’s environments, a lovely poisonous debuff enveloping you while scraggly little creatures try to chip away at your health even further. Back in 2022, he said he “rediscovered” his love for…
There was a bit of a buzz when a new class of 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitors emerged from a flurry of press releases around CES this year. Personally, I struggled to get fired up for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But the new MSI MPG 272URX has landed on my desk, so it’s time…
Some people look at a 3D printer and think “this will make useful parts for my projects.” Some people hear an air raid siren, and assume there must be an historical war re-enactment taking place nearby. I am the third type of person, who hears a 3D-printed air raid siren and experiences a flash forward…
Not a fan of Switch Online, huh? Before Nintendo Switch Online, there was Virtual Console. Available on the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U, the Virtual Console was effectively a line of purchasable retro games available via the Wii Shop Channel and eShop. Unlike Nintendo Switch Online, which offers up a range of playable games for…
Category: Games February 14, 2025 Lost in Random: The Eternal Die Demo Out Now on Xbox (and Why You Should Play!) Mila ten Hove LeeCommunity Manager, Thunderful Summary Lost in Random: The Eternal Die‘s free demo is available now on Xbox. Return to the world of Random as Queen Aleksandra in this dark fantasy roguelite….