Black Flag Remake leaks can only be called that if they come from the Montreuil suburb of Paris—otherwise they’re just sparkling Assassin’s Creed gossip. But good news: the games industry’s most open of open secrets (but that Ubi is still willing to threaten to sue its star over) has let a little more info slip…
Region-free access, region-locked perks. Since its launch in 2018, the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) has been a lightning rod for debate among players. Fans have argued over whether its two-tier price structure constitutes good value, questioned the quality of emulation — sometimes patchy at first with certain N64 games but steadily improved — and grumbled…
I can check one worry off the list for Battlefield 6: the large maps are, in fact, pretty large. This week I played a few hours of Mirak Valley and Operation Firestorm, two maps that Battlefield Studios has been talking up as representative of Battlefield 6’s scale. Even though I’ve played dozens of hours of…
Can’t be bothered to swap your weapons to deal with different elements in Borderlands 4? Then you need to get the Rainbow Vomit. This grossly named legendary shotgun is just as disgusting in the damage department as it is in looks, in large part because it shoots three different elemental pellets at once. Like the…
Famitsuits you, sir. The latest Famitsu scores have hit the inter tubes (thanks, Gematsu) and in amongst all the excitement, we’ve got our very first score for the upcoming Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian. The popular Japanese gaming magazine has awarded Gust’s latest 8/8/8/8 , which ain’t too bad at all…
“I felt such a strong respect for the original”. Video games have a long history of being adapted into musicals in Japan, and one of the most recent examples is “Castlevania” ~Awakening under the Moon~ by Takarazuka Revue. The musical based on Konami’s famous vampire-hunting series has been running for a little while now and…
In an interview with Japanese outlet 4Gamer, AMD has revealed that the upcoming Redstone update for its FSR upscaling platform can run on not just AMD GPUs but graphics cards from other vendors. Yup, that’s right, that includes Nvidia GPUs. Chris Hall, Senior Director Software Development and head of AMD’s ROCm project, which is a…
According to a report from the Financial Times, China’s internet regulator has banned some of the country’s biggest tech firms from buying Nvidia’s AI chips. The ban is said to specifically prevent certain Chinese companies from ordering and testing the RTX Pro 6000D, a product designed specifically for the Chinese market. The Cyberspace Administration of…
It’s rare to see such big numbers as this being bandied about this side of the pond. Deals in the tens of billions of dollars are usually the preserve of those big American tech companies. But US President Donald Trump is currently visiting our little island and already the cash is splashing, as Reuters reports…
“I heard Nakatsuji-san mutter, ‘So that’s Gunpei Yokoi…’”. Nintendo has not been accustomed to failure over the past few decades, so it was a surprise to many to learn that the Kyoto-based giant is embracing one of its most costly failures: the Virtual Boy. Reading the recent news story on the value of Athena’s Virtual…