Taiwanese news site United Daily News reports that, according to one source, Microsoft is charging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more for Windows licensing fees this year than in previous years (via Wccftech). These are the fees that PC makers, for instance, must pay to Microsoft to package their machines with the operating system. UDN…
“We have carefully reviewed your feedback”. As we’ve covered on the site before, Forever Entertainment’s long-delayed remake of the Sega Saturn classic Panzer Dragoon Zwei hasn’t exactly gone down well with fans of the series. Back in 2025, when the game resurfaced after years missing in action, one commenter, for instance, encouraged players to “reject…
“You’re finished”. Following the announcement of Final Fantasy Resonance back in June, Square Enix has begun highlighting the game’s ‘Visions’, which are characters that can fight alongside you during the journey. We already caught a glimpse of the Warrior of Light the other day, and now it’s the turn of series legend Cloud Strife. The…
Earlier this year, Google Chrome annoyed a whole lot of adblock users by killing support for Manifest V2 extensions. It’s a Manifest V3 world now, which means the permissions and APIs that thoroughgoing adblockers like uBlock Origin rely on are a thing of the past on Chrome (it’s since been replaced by a pared-down version:…
“Morph ball, what? It’s the tuck-ball. Energy-tank who? That’s an E-vial.”. The original Metroid for the Famicom Disk System recently turned 40, prompting a ton of people online to share their favourite memories of the series. In the case of one fan, opossumcarrion, however, they’ve gone a little further than simply firing off a few…
We all know the cost of RAM is ridiculously high these days thanks to the global memory shortage. But it can be useful (and depressing) to put these prices into context historically. To that end, scientist, developer, and software performance expert Daniel Lemire commented on X that “On a historical basis, computer memory has been…
“it was very far along”. Despite Square Enix still in the trenches with development on Final Fantasy VII Revelation, rumours have persisted that a remake of Final Fantasy IX isn’t too far behind. Unfortunately, according to a comment from Alex Donaldson (Editor, RPG Site) over on Reset Era, development on the remake is “no longer…
Meet RetroGameForge, a new set of tools from the creator of NESMaker. A Kickstarter has just been launched for a new way to develop homebrew NES and SNES games. RetroGameForge is a new suite of tools from Joe Granato, the developer of NESMaker, and is aiming “to help you make the retro game you’ve always…
‘It Takes Two’ was released for Switch in 2022. We’ve already had multiple Switch titles receive a Switch 2 makeover recently, and it looks like another one may have been discovered ahead of the official announcement. As highlighted by Nintendo Everything, a document by Chinese games distributor Prowell Asia Holdings features an image of a…
Big Walk has sold 1 million copies since launching a week ago, its publisher has announced. That’s a huge figure for Australian studio House House, whose previous breakthrough hit Untitled Goose Game took three months to reach that milestone. It’s also pretty huge when you consider that Big Walk is currently a monthly “free” PlayStation…