Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is his final game. Kensuke Tanabe, veteran producer at Nintendo who became known for his work on the Metroid Prime series, has reportedly announced his retirement. As covered by VGC, Tanabe’s announcement comes via an interview with the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream, which has been uploaded online by a user on…
I’ve made cozy gaming most of my personality in the past several years, but even I sometimes feel numb to the aesthetically-mandated cotton candy color palette. Sometimes I want to play a cozy game while giving my eyes a little rest from the pastel apocalypse. I also just like trying to slip in some chill…
Five and a half years after its 2020 Game Awards reveal, Crimson Desert has remained something of a mystery. Developer Pearl Abyss has promised a growing collection of mechanics and playstyles so bafflingly dense that it’s still hard to picture how exactly it’s all meant to fit together. Thanks to a freshly announced release date,…
Well, Anthem is dead, and let’s be honest with ourselves: It’s fine. Most of us forgot Anthem even existed long before the final call, and we were genuinely surprised to discover last summer that the servers were still running. Which isn’t so much an indictment of the game but of the system that produced it….
After a mixed reception to Marathon‘s first public playtest last year (not helped by the whiplash of Arc Raiders‘ remarkably positive playtest), Bungie returned to the drawing board to overhaul some of the extraction shooter’s features. Now it’s back on the menu and almost time for round two, as a second public playtest will happen…
I spent my childhood as a Sega fanboy. Even though I loved Nintendo games I was fiercely loyal to my chosen console, in that daft way that kids are. I’d argue at school with mates about who would win in a fight between Mario and Sonic (Sonic would absolutely destroy him), extol the virtues of…
My new horizon. Remember when Nintendo called Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update the final major free update to the game? It turns out, a lot can change in four years. And here I am again, back on my tropical island paradise, playing through another big free addition – and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition…
As if there aren’t enough gaming mice on the market, Be Quiet! has just announced a pair of rodents with professional and competitive gamers in mind. Named the Dark Perk Ergo and Dark Perk Sym, both mice sport a 110-hour battery life (at 1000 Hz), 55 g weight, 8000 Hz polling rate (even while wireless),…
It’s also investing heavily in “player-facing Generative AI”. Ubisoft has announced a major organisational restructure to refocus its initiatives and improve efficiency. In a press release, the company confirmed that it plans to “close several studios” and “continue restructuring throughout the Group” in order to achieve its goals. It reconfirmed the closure of its Halifax…
After years of trying and failing to get it out the door, Ubisoft has finally pulled the plug on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. The game is one of six projects, four of them unannounced, that were cancelled as part of a “major reset” of Ubisoft’s internal structure that CEO Yves Guillemot…