“Because it was for Nintendo, we made everyone have water pistols”. Since its original debut on the Wii U in 2015, the Splatoon series has become one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, with countless players having fallen in love with its stylish and colourful vision of a world where evolved marine lifeforms duke it out…
To make it to the top of Kami, the mountain at the heart of Cairn, you’ll need to develop skill and intuition for climbing and use all the tools at your disposal. There’s a lot in the game you’ll need to learn through experience, particularly as you reach the more treacherous challenges at higher altitudes….
Need to know What is it? A limb-by-limb climbing sim that reaches dizzying heightsRelease date January 30, 2026Expect to pay TBCDeveloper The Game BakersPublisher The Game BakersReviewed on RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Steam Cairn can be loosely categorised with modern on-foot navigation games like Death Stranding and Baby Steps,…
Linux has not traditionally been the home for gaming, but ever since SteamOS and Proton, it’s drastically improved as a gaming platform. It still hasn’t had quite the breadth of game support as Windows, though, and it’s never had native client support for Nvidia GeForce Now (GFN) game streaming—until now, that is, as GFN has…
France announced Monday, January 26, that it plans to replace American software such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom with its own domestic software, Visio. Visio will be rolled out by 2027 and will only be available for government departments, not private companies or individual members of the public. As reported by Euronews, David Amiel, minister…
A bottomless pit of money. This, as far as one can tell, appears to be the situation at Meta. Its latest earnings report (via TechCrunch) reveals the company burned another $19.1 billion on VR last year. Oh, and at the same time, it is reportedly planning to invest $135 billion in AI this year to…
“They wouldn’t release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name”. Those of you who followed the Japanese launch of Sony’s PlayStation back in 1994 will be aware that Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden Project was a very early release for the console. A two-game collection featuring Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993), it launched at the start of…
Emergency Miiting. Hot on the heels of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct, Nintendo is back with its second showcase of the week, this time focused on all things Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. After being announced back in the March 2025 Direct, Living the Dream has since cropped up again at the September showcase…
Set for release on February 5, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined for PlayStation 5 reinterprets the classic 2000 PlayStation title, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past. Featuring distinctive 3D diorama visuals with a warm, handcrafted doll-like aesthetic, the remake also introduces new storylines, including one that reunites the hero with his now-adult friend, Kiefer….
Localization legend Richard Honeywood talks us through his incredible game dev origin story. Richard Honeywood is a pretty famous figure when it comes to the world of video game localization, having many major achievements to his name. Not only was he responsible for establishing Square’s in-house localization department in the late ’90s at its Tokyo…