The first Daemon X Machina was released at a time when the Armored Core series seemed to have been forgotten. Therefore, the action game featuring large mechs looked quite unusual and satisfied the needs of fans of such entertainment. However, it had its share of problems — the plot was mediocre and the gameplay was…
Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda’s greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that “the reality of…
Make, Play, & Bin? No, we didn’t find ours here, not at all… 2018 is a long time ago. It feels like it happened in another dimension, in an alternate (and much nicer) timeline, or some other Marvel universe-typed nonsense. And it’s a timeline we can never get back to. It was also the year…
“It was a game that was truly outstanding in terms of sound design”. Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most acclaimed composers of video game music the world has yet known; his work on the Final Fantasy series is globally recognised, and with good reason. However, even Nobuo is humble enough to know when he’s…
Valve made a brave move with the launch of its Steam Controller in 2015. It’s a pad designed for PC gaming on the sofa, and it removed the right thumbstick of a traditional controller and replaced it with a mouse-aping trackpad. With another trackpad on the left-hand side in place of the d-pad, you’re dual-wielding……
Maika Monroe fans, unite. Capcom has released a new live-action short as part of its marketing campaign for Resident Evil Requiem, and it’s a banger. Starring Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs) as a doting mother caught in the midst of the Raccoon City outbreak, the short effortlessly captures the frantic panic that ensues when the…
Cairn released late last week to glowing reviews, with Shaun Prescott calling it “prickly but approachable” in PC Gamer’s review. And clearly it’s been a big hit with the players as the devs celebrate passing a huge milestone less than a week after launch. “Is this the revival of Kami’s golden age of tourism?” The…
I sometimes forget about the existence of Nvidia’s Shield devices, in all their various iterations. Shield TV, however, has been with us now for over a decade in some form or another—and according to Nvidia, the Android-powered set-top box is far from done yet. In an interview with Ars Technica, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware…
“That’s why I’m very anti-AI right now”. We’re currently going through a period in tech history where AI is getting put inside pretty much every facet of modern life. Gen-AI is everywhere you look online, while manufacturers are falling over themselves to include AI in every appliance you could mention – whether it makes sense…
The only thing I really know about manga is that there’s lots of it. But now there’s a fair bit less of it online, at least that’s available for, erm, ‘free’, in less than legal terms, on bato.to. But this and many related sites, such as xbato.com, are now dead, thanks to a Chinese criminal…