Hands On: R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos – How Does This Turn-Based PSP Pair Hold Up On Switch?

It’s a bold strategy Cotton. With Irem’s video game division being dissolved in 2011 after Japan’s Tōhoku earthquake, some staff went on to found Granzella Inc. Interested in revisiting their most beloved work, Granzella then got hold of the R-Type licence for 2007’s R-Type Tactics, a turn-based strategy affair for Sony’s PSP. A sequel followed…

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I wasn’t convinced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners could have a sadder ending until I read its writer’s other pitches—and boy did we get off easy

This article will contain spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an excellent anime, and it’s also very sad—its ending does a great job of reaching into your chest, busting past your ribs, grabbing your heart and ripping it out. It’s a genuinely thoughtful examination of the cyberpunk genre’s dystopia, the corrupt ideas of success…

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South Korea’s president declares that it will invest over $580 billion in its AI chip industry, with Samsung and SK hynix coughing up most of the money

When it comes to making bank off the currently insatiable demand for AI hardware, the companies with the biggest, ear-to-ear grins are those that make the processors, memory, and storage chips for such systems. In the case of the latter two, it’s been so highly profitable that they have collectively agreed to substantially fund a…

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Planescape: Torment 2 was greenlit by Wizards of the Coast, ‘they were really into what we were doing’, but it refused to fund the sequel, and nobody else was interested

Baldur’s Gate 3 might be the greatest D&D videogame out there, but Planescape: Torment—with its potent mix of exceptional writing and fever-dream setting—is a close second. And we almost got a sequel, Planescape: Unraveled, but nobody had the courage to fund it. Unsurprisingly, Beamdog—which has become something of a custodian for BioWare and Black Isle’s…

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