Red Dead Redemption 2 put an absurd amount of work into making its horses as realistic as possible—thousands of animations, tons of research, testicle physics—and I’m about to undo all of that by turning them into Umamusume: Pretty Derby anime horse girls. That’s thanks to the (frankly heroic) work of JohnTanner1899, who’s been slowly trickling…
Job hunting is miserable. In fact, perhaps the only thing keeping the motor of modern capitalism chugging is that it’s marginally more miserable than working, and even games industry paragons have had to undergo the humiliating ritual of sifting through stacks of rejection letters from jobs they didn’t really want in the first place. Like…
There’s a very specific moment in Little Nightmares III that encapsulates the game so perfectly that it sticks with me long after I’ve finished my hands-on. Bandai Namco’s demo, ahead of the game’s PS5 and PS4 release on October 10, knew exactly what it was doing. Picture the scene: I’ve assumed the pigtailed Alone, partner…
You can’t fault AMD for its honesty. Not when it is unambiguously, almost proudly, admitting that it charges more for its CPUs than Intel. At the Communicopia+ Technology Conference held recently by the high-status bean counters at Goldman Sachs, AMD’s Executive VP & GM of Data Center Solutions Business Unit, Forrest Norrod, was remarkably frank…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Silksong, preparing to play Borderlands 4, and likely upsetting you because I put your favourite game at the wrong spot on this list. A thousand apologies. Last week I was: Thinking too much about Borderlands 4’s story, and being proven wrong by FF14’s…
Talk to robots or conduct cruel experiments with electricity. The Japanese developer 72Studio and its publisher Room6 have announced that it will be releasing a new retro-inspired visual novel called BatteryNote on Steam next month on October 10th (thanks Famitsu!). The short sci-fi themed adventure game sees players step into the role of a mechanic…
Behold the levelling, the nihilation, of all that was once sacred. AI has taken its faux-personal tendrils and slithered them into all facets of modern life, and now it’s coming for Animal Crossing, too. At least, it is if you’re Josh Fonesca and take it upon yourself to replace “every line of dialogue with AI”…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service is due to receive a significant upgrade later this month, boosting the top tier subscription’s capabilities to what it describes as “RTX 5080 performance”, thanks to some upgraded SuperPods. Our Jacob briefly got his hands on the upgrade at an Nvidia event and came away fairly impressed, but I…
New York, NY (September 20, 2022) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — will open minting for a new NFT collaboration with the Brazilian pop culture artist Butcher Billy. The collection of 2,600 unique NFTs, based on 15 original artworks, celebrates Atari’s 50th Anniversary. Each fine…
“The work of The Traveler is eternal”. In case you happened to miss it, Cronos: The New Dawn is out now on the Switch 2, and it’s really rather good. Despite leaning heavily on tried-and-tested survival horror tropes, Bloober Team’s latest delivers a fascinating story involving time travel, big helmets, and gross, gooey creatures that…