If you love JRPGs and hate DRM, some good news: the Star Ocean series has arrived on GOG. Well, some of it, anyway. As of today, you can pick up Star Ocean The Divine Force and Star Ocean The Second Story R on the DRM-free storefront. This is a GOG premiere, mind you, not a…
Just keep on Truxing. Legacy is a heavy burden. The ever-present danger of attempting to bring a new chapter in a revered series from the past and offending an entire fanbase in the process should not be something taken lightly by developers. In recent years within the shmup genre, we have seen such attempts fizzle…
“An extremely shady site and developers need to be aware of this”. Last week, we reported that the retro website Generation Amiga’s GenAI practices had come under fire from the community, and we’re now hearing that parts of the Amiga fandom are rejecting the site’s content outright, leading to its ban from certain social media…
It’s a family affair. Last week, Shigeru Miyamoto sat down for an oh-so-rare deep dive interview with Famitsu, and it was positively rammed with glorious insights. We previously covered the direct pipeline from movie to games and the legendary designer’s thoughts on remakes, but we’ve just stumbled across another wholesome little nugget from the chat…
“The level of interest and support we have received has far exceeded my expectations”. This month sees the release of Truxton Extreme, a new entry in the legendary shmup series which started life all the way back in 1988 and was conceived by the equally esteemed Masahiro Yuge. Yuge established Tatsujin in 2017, with the…
If you’ve been keeping up to date with news of the raging memory supply crisis, then I don’t need to tell you how the AI industry’s seemingly bottomless hunger for both system storage and RAM has significantly raised prices. Well, it turns out it can get worse than runaway costs, as manufacturers are even more…
Over on the Steam Frame subreddit, the top post at the time of writing is one declaring “this sub has lost its mind”. It follows this up by acknowledging that, with Valve not releasing Steam Frame preorders on July 27th as the subreddit previously thought, “Now most of the new posts are just brainrot, and…
I will be truthful: if you grabbed me by the lapels and demanded I tell you when Nioh 3 came out, I would answer something along the lines of ‘the late 1980s’. The fact that the third Nioh—a rather good game, per our 90% Nioh 3 review—only released in February of this year feels like…
Best of the best. Capcom has today released its Q1 financial results for FY2026, sharing the official numbers for Pragmata‘s launch period and updates on a bunch of other titles besides. It’s the Resident Evil series that’s the star of the show this time around, however, as it seems to have become the best-selling Japanese…
A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, reports The Information. That’s a big step towards China’s semiconductor biz standing on its own two feet. It takes a complicated lithographic machine to produce a modern chip, and there are two main types: EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography)….