“Does this count as any percent Speed Run finish then?”. The Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night gets a bit of a bum rap these days. Sure, it’s not as technically accomplished as the PS1 original (Konami Nagoya handled porting duties, rather than the original team at KCE Tokyo), but it does have…
The US and Chinese governments have been battling it out once more over trade policies, and the big point of contention this time round is Beijing’s latest raft of rare earth export restrictions, requiring foreign companies to obtain an export license for products containing the vital materials. According to a Reuters report, the Trump administration…
When I started playing Minecraft in 2012 you didn’t have any sort of help or guidance when it came to crafting. You had to rely exclusively on your own knowledge, or constantly tab out of the game to look up crafting recipes. It wasn’t until the in-game recipe book was introduced in 2018 that I…
There are some game premises that are simply irresistible. “Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht” is the kind of pitch I cannot turn down. So it is that I find myself sweatily rolling dice against a leering vampire as I go all-in with…
The course of history has a habit of plucking individuals from its stream and making them, by complex processes, tribunes of a class—figureheads onto which the demands of an era are projected and through whom they find voice. Martin Luther, Maximilien Robespierre, Karl Marx: these are less individuals than they are avatars of their epochs….
“The use of AI upscaling is disastrous in this book”. A new book celebrating the art of the Mortal Kombat series has come under fire for allegedly using AI upscaling to “improve” visuals from earlier entries in the franchise. The officially licensed Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory, written by Ian Flynn, launched recently to decent reviews,…
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally feel I no longer need to carry a Micro USB cable around with me. My travel bag is one cable lighter for the widespread adoption of USB Type-C. I can thank, in part, the European Union for that one. The bloc used its considerable might to…
Also has credits such as Gunstar Heroes and Gradius V to his name. If you’re anything like me, you downloaded Night Striker Gear the moment it went live and have been enjoying its unique brand of ‘Super Scaler’ madness for the past day or so. However, one thing I wasn’t aware of when I purchased…
Category: ID@Xbox October 24, 2025 Instruments of Destruction Explodes onto Xbox Series X|S Today Luke Schneider, Founder of Radiangames Summary Development history and what to expect from the highly-destructible sandbox. Developed by Red Faction: Guerrilla’s lead technical designer Luke Schneider. How fan feedback helped shaped gameplay design. It’s been a pretty long journey to get…
“Together, we’re opening new creative frontiers”. Electronic Arts (EA) has already caused some controversy in recent weeks when it announced it had been acquired by the PIF (Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for a cool $55 billion. Now, the company is back at it again. In a new announcement, Stability…