A PokéPuzzle a day keeps the Nurse Joy away. It seems like every Pokémon Direct spends more than half its runtime detailing updates for or announcing casual Pokémon spin-offs. From Pokémon Café ReMix to Pokémon Sleep, we’ve gotten so many Pokémon-themed experiences that any new announcements outside of the Generation X games feel as tired…
Microsoft is awfully proud of its latest version of Windows, as it claims it’s now less prone to failure. This would make for a pleasant change, as the first few months with the software were not great, to put it lightly. As noted in the Microsoft blog, “We’re also proud to share that Windows 11…
The first time I played Phantom Blade Zero earlier this year, I was bad at it—which might’ve had something to do with jumping straight into a boss fight while I was still learning the controls. But over the last two days at a preview event in Beijing, I’ve gone from fresh-faced trainee to a wispy-bearded…
‘Razing Core’ is the new game from BadComputer. If you’re at all familiar with the homebrew community for the Sega Master System, you’ve probably heard of the name “BadComputer” in the past. The homebrew developer has been one of the most prolific creators designing and creating new experiences for Sega’s legendary 8-bit machine, having previously…
In what might indicate a deep inner yearning on our part to return to our childhoods, Bethesda and Virtuos’ soigné redo of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has hit the nine million player milestone. That is (PCG’s Harvey Randall informs me) almost double the population of Norway. Which is also an indictment of Norway. Why…
Docky Kong. If you’re anything like us, your Switch 2 has likely become a Donkey Kong Bananza machine for the past two weeks. We mean that in a figurative sense, of course — it’s the game that has dominated most of our time of late — but some arty fans have taken it much more…
When I’m excited about a game, of course I want to share it with anyone I can corner—and that often includes Discord pals that otherwise live a multi-hour train ride away. Streaming over Discord is an okay option, I guess, but it’s hardly ideal (don’t get me started on the bitrate). For anyone wanting to…
New soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feather has had the most auspicious of launches. Over on Steam, it currently enjoys a ‘mostly negative’ rating from over 25,000 reviews, and our Tyler reckons that while it ‘brings some fun ideas to boss fights’, everything else is a ‘pale imitation of much better games’. Opinions are likely to take…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is many things—heartwrenching, impressive, a love-letter to the JRPG genre, and, uh, (checking my notes) kawaii, apparently. In case you aren’t uncomfortably familiar with anime—or just don’t know Japanese—’kawaii’ means ‘cute’. That’s per the creator of Kawaii Physics, Kazuya Okada (Okazu) who noticed that, during a Sandfall Interactive lecture, Clair Obscur:…
Battle Master was released in 1993 for the Super Famicom. We’ve seen many great SNES fan translations over the years, and it appears that another has just been released, with the 1993 fighting game Battle Master: Kyūkyoku no Senshitachi finally being available to play in English, 32 years after its release. Battle Master: Kyūkyoku no…