And so, the Final Fantasy 14 free trial copypasta gets longer once more. The MMO has been show-ponied around by the community for its rather generous free trial for ages now. First it was up to level 60 including Heavensward, and then in 2023 was extended to include Stormblood. And as of today’s Patch 7.5,…
(In Japan, at least). Resident Evil turns 30 this year, and Capcom has been soliciting tributes from a wide range of industry veterans, including former Sony Computer Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida. In a brief video message celebrating the zombie-slaying franchise’s birthday, Yoshida reveals that the original game very nearly launched with green blood rather than…
Introduction Gaming didn’t explode overnight. It stretched, adapted, shifted shape over decades – sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once. What started as a niche hobby tied to blinking machines in noisy rooms is now a global industry worth billions. That part is obvious. What’s less obvious is how culture moved alongside technology. In practice, the…
Go on, eat the sin cake. In 2021, a monster-catching RPG called Monster Crown hit the eShop, a one-man project aiming to emulate the glory days of Pokémon. Though it had its shortcomings, it mostly captured the essence of its inspiration and evidently it garnered enough of a following to justify the launch of a…
When Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida took to the stage for his opening keynote at the North American Fan Festival, I knew change was coming. He’d been hinting that the next expansion—which we now know is called Evercold—would mark a new era of Final Fantasy 14. Despite that, I still thought it…
Super Turrican (1993) & its Director’s Cut on a single cartridge. Factor 5’s famous run-and-gun shooter Super Turrican is being reissued on the Super Famicom in Japan in late July 2026, as recently revealed by the Japanese publisher, Columbus Circle. The rerelease was announced earlier today across Columbus Circle’s social media accounts and will reportedly…
Believe it or not, but you can play a photorealistic FPS in your browser right now, even if you don’t have a massive GPU. This simple FPS project doesn’t exactly offer pulse pounding gameplay, but is instead head-turning for how it conjures a photorealistic environment without hogging your rig’s resources. The project was made by…
Saberman has contacted us to let us know that tiboh’24-26 has announced the release of a hack/mod of Commando for the ZX Spectrum. A new version of the game which not only overhauls the intro graphics, but it now features AY-Music which brings it more in line with other systems such as the Amstrad CPC,…
Finding a Comet Igniter for Tian Wen in Arc Raiders‘ Collision Course quest is simple if you know the trick to getting them. If you don’t, or you haven’t encountered this Arc enemy much, then it’s much more of a bother. These exploding balls always seem to catch me at the most inopportune moment and…
Arc Raiders’ latest big update, Riven Tides, is finally upon us and it doesn’t just bring beach holidays and ice cream cone arcs—there’s also a bunch of updates in the patch notes, but the biggest change is coming for your guns. Weapon durability is getting dropped and high-level spawns are being moved closer to the…