Includes a new interview with Yuji Horii and art from Susumu Matsushita. Weekly Famitsu celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. As a result, it has decided to mark the occasion with four consecutive commemorative issues “as a token of its gratitude” to readers, including a special issue celebrating the Dragon Quest series (which also turned…
You ever play a game that just activates your brain in all the right ways? I remember it happening a few times in my life—the first time I played Morrowind on a friend’s PC and experienced a lifelong RPG addiction occurring in real-time. Just hearing that menu theme makes me want to run outside and…
For the launch of its Core Ultra 200S Plus processors, Intel released a software package called Binary Optimization Tool (IBOT for short), which promised to give certain games a substantial boost in performance. The chip giant also promised that it would be rolling out updates when possible, and true to its word, the first one…
Charming, yet dark, German developer Headup Games’ “Typoman” blends the puzzle and platforming genres into polished pulp of passion, forging the type of title that could work on any console, but thanks to the Wii U GamePad, is a perfect fit on Nintendo’s fledgling console. Easy to describe, “Typoman” uses letters to forge its “Hero.”…
Despite a rough couple of years for the company, Intel could be set to make a turnaround with both its handheld chips performing well, and its Foundry business taking on substantial orders, at least if recent reports prove to be true. It seems like the AI boom has really squeezed semiconductor leader TSMC’s supplies dry,…
Now that AI is being shoehorned into every app or operating system these days, whether you want it or not, attention is being increasingly turned to the user interface. At one end of the spectrum, you have Google and Microsoft’s unaccommodating efforts, and at the other, you have Apple’s new orb-of-wonder, actively lighting its ‘surroundings’….
After nine years, eight expansions and a mountain of updates—many good, plenty questionable—Destiny 2’s final ever patch releases today. The Monument of Triumph is the final hoorah; the last big release before the studio walks away from the game forever. The future is uncertain for the singular live-service looter shooter series. Destiny 2 itself will…
A new report citing graphics card makers at the Computex show claims AMD’s next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs won’t appear until at least late next year and perhaps not until early 2028. AMD’s current RDNA 4 graphics cards, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, were released in March 2025. Dutch website Tweakers says it spoke with…
Ken you believe it? Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has now surpassed a whopping 7 million copies sold. Initially released in 2023, a Switch 2 port followed on 5th June 2025 as part of the console’s launch line-up. While 7 million is a mighty impressive number, it has still yet to beat Street…
MMOs are, in many ways, the cradle of live service games—the place where the model we all know and loathe got its start. They have, in turn, tried to adopt some of the live service models that have proven to be the most popular, such as seasonal structures and, in some cases, battle passes. Sometimes…