Well that’s… unexpected. Yes, you read that headline correctly, rather than pushing the prices up to match what we’ve seen everywhere else in the industry of late, select EU retailers appear to be cutting the cost of Switch 2 consoles and bundles (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News). Amazon France was the first…
As a “Rocktober” treat. Double Fine has released a previously unseen pitch video of its heavy metal-inspired action-adventure, real-time strategy game Brütal Legend, to celebrate “Rocktober” — the time of the year when Tim Schafer gets together with fans to matchmake against one another in multiplayer to mark the game getting one year older. The…
Playing through all of the campaign missions in Battlefield 6 isn’t something you’re likely to do more than once. Many might have seen this game as a CoD killer, but sadly, its campaign is really not that special and basically amounts to a very average AAA FPS campaign, i.e. the kind of thing you play…
“It feels like the right time to start giving the SuperGrafx some love”. Back when arcade games were the cutting edge of gaming technology, the quality of subsequent home ports could make or break a console in the eyes of hardcore gamers. During the NES era, conversions of coin-ops were almost always compromised visually and…
The US government has had a bit of a tumultuous relationship with, well, most of the world around the export of chips, thanks to the exponential growth of AI and the uncertainty of tariffs. Large datacentres need technology to keep growing, and America clearly wants to sit at the top of the AI pile. The…
Launches next month! A new indie game inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series is set to launch next month on Steam. BerserkBoy Games’ Berserk B.I.T.S is being described as an “an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game” and is a spin-off to the 2024 title Berserk Boy. Read the full article on timeextension.com Launches next…
Former Sony staffer reflects on 30 years of PlayStation. Sony’s PS1 turned 30 at the end of last year, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the console’s launch in the West. Former President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, has been speaking to GamesIndustry.biz about the arrival of Sony’s…
A first-person perspective, too. Following last month’s release, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is now getting updated to Version 1.05 on the Switch and Switch 2. Perhaps, most notably, the Switch 2 update will add “image quality and performance settings”. Additionally, there is also a first-person perspective mode. Here’s the translation from the official…
Improvements, adjustments, bug fixes and more. The Switch 2 had all sorts of third-party support at launch, and one of these titles happened to be the Square Enix role-playing game Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster. This remaster comes loaded with not only the main adventure but also brand new minigames utilising the Joy-Con 2…
Games like Dungeon Keeper and Evil Genius cast you as the villain repelling heroes as they break on your defences like waves on the shore. Grove Keeper is different. You play a noble god of the forest protecting trees from old-timey woodcutters and hunters who have come to cut down Old Man Willow and shoot…