“I’ve come to accept that English is a simple language”. One of our very favourite underrated gems on Switch, PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, got a surprise sequel last month with the arrival of The Mermaid’s Curse. To celebrate the launch, Famitsu sat down with series director Takanari Ishiyama and Dragon Quest creator Yuji…
‘Sonic Wings Special’ is this week’s Console Archives release. After taking us on a trip to feudal Japan last week with its console reissue of the NES title Nobunaga’s Ambition, Hamster, the creator of Console Archives, has announced plans to send players to the skies this week with a rerelease of Video System’s 1996 PlayStation…
I’m long past the point of being incredulous about what games get movie spin-offs. When Hasbro’s classic Battleship boardgame got a sci-fi adaptation with Rihanna and Liam Neeson back in 2012, it became clear that nothing was off the table. So I’m not remotely surprised that Rust developer Facepunch has been “talking to people” about…
Following Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall’s statement yesterday that it was seeking a “fair solution” with the creator of graphic novel L’Académie Clair-Obscur after he received a lawyer’s letter ordering him to stop selling the book, Sandfall has taken to X again to say it’s dropping the case. “Sorry for dragging our feet in…
“If you’re looking to order a Framework Laptop or Desktop with a lot of storage, now is the time to do that.” So says Framework CEO Nirav Patel in the latest update to the company’s ongoing blog post about the memory crisis.We’ve reported previously on numerous occasions on how Framework is handling spiralling RAM and…
As soon as Anran’s in-game model got revealed in Overwatch, there were calls from her voice actor and fans alike to redesign her face. She looked younger and more generic than her pre-release artwork, and it just didn’t match. In a video on X, game director Aaron Keller confirmed that the team was “hoping to…
Way back in 2020 MegaStyle released the Commodore 64 game called ‘Captain Cloudberry’. A game whereby you play as Captain Cloudberry, on mission to destroy radioactive weather balloons that have given an evil witch complete control of the atmosphere, keeping the villagers trapped in her meteorological terror. Well fast forward to today, and if you…
Turns out relying on AI-assisted vibe coding or similarly generative tools for major tech infrastructure has some drawbacks—who could’ve foreseen this? Apparently, Amazon may have some regrets.Earlier this week, the e-commerce team at Amazon arranged a “deep dive” meeting with a number of engineers to investigate what led to a series of outages. A briefing…
“I don’t have the time nor energy to do something I’ll mostly get negativity for”. While the world of retro emulation has connected gamers with experiences they might otherwise not have had without buying original hardware, it’s often an odd and somewhat toxic landscape populated by many people who, despite getting something for nothing, are…
The CEO of Hasbro (the company that owns Wizards of the Coast, which in itself makes D&D and Magic: The Gathering) has been effusive and cheery about AI in the past, saying that the fact all his mates are using it in his home games is a signal “we need to be embracing it” back…