“he’ll say something that sounds exactly like Goku”. Legendary developer Masahiro Sakurai has more than proven his worth in the industry, having helmed all-timers like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kirby Air Riders, and Kid Icarus: Uprising, while also providing one of the most comprehensive series of videos on game development with his YouTube channel. It’s…
“AI can be a useful research tool, but it does not replace the human judgment”. Developer Flaffy is working on a new static recompilation tool for PS1 which aims to make the process easier than before – and they’re using Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as their test case. As highlighted by Read Only Memo,…
As of a few days ago, Anthropic deployed its Claude Fable 5 AI model after the US temporarily restricted access. Now it has already been used to port the 2003 video game Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour to iOS. It seemingly needed the source code, previous ports, and some human tweaking to get…
“This is my tentative first Super Play design”. Former Rare artist Wil Overton recently reimagined the front cover of Super Play’s first issue, and he’s now back with an exclusive T-shirt design which will certainly appeal to UK-based SNES fans. In case you didn’t know, Overton created a bespoke cover image for every one of…
Only for a limited time, though. Persona fans, listen up: Aniplex USA has released the entirety of Persona 4: The Animation and Persona 4: The Golden Animation for free on YouTube for a limited time to celebrate the franchise’s 30th anniversary (thanks for the spot, Go Nintendo). So that means all 26 episodes of The…
“Thank you for choosing Nintendo”. Famitsu readers in Japan recently voted Nintendo the number one game developer, beating the likes of Square Enix (which, as the developer of Dragon Quest, is a big deal in the region), Capcom, Atlus, and FromSoftware. Now, as reported and translated by Nintendo Everything, the company has shared a statement…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In June, Sports games (NBA 2k26 and EA SPORTS FC 26) and DAVE THE DIVER from South Korea studio topped Asia charts while creepy, empty spaces took over the charts as Escape the Backrooms topped the charts in…
Isla de las Muñecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who’ve gone missing in a particularly cursed location. “Players must investigate missing person cases by examining…
Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It’s hardly a classic, but it’s not terrible either. At one cent per 10 minutes of content, how can you resist? It’s only five pleasantly tactile mouse clicks away. Maybe you can’t resist. During Steam’s seasonal sales it’s possible to scoop up dozens of games for less…
Remember how Sony sneakily added a PSN account requirement to Helldivers 2 after launch, thereby making it unplayable in the long list countries PSN still hasn’t been rolled out to? And then Sony region-restricted a bunch of PC ports in those same countries, like God of War Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and The…