“We continue to cherish the amazing relationship our companies built”. Grasshopper Manufacture has announced that it has parted way with parent company NetEase and is now once again an independent developer. NetEase acquired Grasshopper back in 2021, but after a string of acquisitions, the company has since pulled back from its investments, closing down a…
Summary Microsoft Jewel is the fifth mobile app from Microsoft Casual Games and our first new mobile launch in seven years. Players can earn XBOX Achievements on mobile and sync their progress across the standalone iOS, Android, and PC apps. XBOX Game Pass members receive Premium benefits on PC, while XBOX Game Pass Ultimate members…
Last week in Warsaw I got to see a first glimpse of Logitech’s new Replay software, which is currently in beta. It records your game, and then lets you use its deep learning (technically not AI, I know) to figure out the best clips and splice them together for you. It looked pretty neat, from…
Bundled DLC, anyone? Just as it did with Scarlet and Violet, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have today announced that Pokémon Legends: Z-A will be getting a new Switch 2 physical release that comes with the DLC bundled in. The new copies will launch on 29th October and contain the full Legends: Z-A base game…
Race for podium glory in F1 25, take on monsters and other players in Hunt: Showdown 1896, then battle voxel versions of EDF enemies in Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2. Together, these three games form the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October. All be available to PlayStation Plus members* from Tuesday October 6 until…
The ask this month was a simple one. Take a trio of mid-range(ish) laptops, the Asus TUF Gaming A16, the Lenovo Legion 5, and the MSI Katana 15 HX. Benchmark the crap out of them, run them as a daily driver for a spell, research the bejesus out of them, and then see which one…
“A union divided cannot stand,” reads a famous quote from a famous man. But only now can we finally know why Abraham Lincoln said what he said. There’s no shadow of a doubt in my mind he was (in this journalist’s opinion), predicting the rise and fall of MSI’s Katana 15 HX B14W 2026 edition….
“I’m sure you’ll enjoy reviewing this single-channel Lenovo laptop,” Dave joked, as we ended a call discussing the new PC Gamer benchmark database. I laughed, as you do, because it’s one of those things that I’ve written about extensively in recent months, (and moaned at PC Gamer, a lot more about besides), and one I…
From our small studio Section 9 Interactive, founded by three former Tarsier Studios members, comes the sci-fi action adventure game End of Abyss, launching October 1 for XBOX Series X|S players! In End of Abyss, you take on the role of a young combat technician, Cel, as she and her crew venture down into a…
“Ending up on Ali Express after all the work I’ve put into this port would f***ing suck!”. It’s been over two years now since we last gave an update on Mega Splatterhouse, the fanmade Mega Drive / Genesis port of Namco’s horror-themed arcade beat ’em up Splatterhouse, but it appears its developer, Monster Bath Games,…