Late last year, Australia implemented a social media ban for those aged under 16, and reports since suggest that things aren’t exactly going as planned. For one, companies reportedly don’t seem to be actually checking some accounts. Reuters spoke to a team of software testers, who report that several companies failed to ask for proof…
Science Fiction, Double Feature. Shapefarm’s upcoming anime sci-fi co-op adventure, Orbitals, is just a few months away from its 3rd September launch,exclusive to Switch 2, and we couldn’t be more excited. Our early thoughts after going hands-on with the game’s opening sections are now live (spoiler: we like what we’ve seen), and just to keep…
Most home game rooms and man caves sound thinner than they should. The gear is fine — a decent TV, a console or gaming PC, maybe a soundbar or a pair of speakers — but the audio feels like it’s coming from the screen instead of surrounding you. The problem usually isn’t volume. It’s that…
Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft website. With over 60,000 games confirmed in its archive, the future of the database remains uncertain. Although the Berlin Senate and…
Special effects go off like fireworks, my screen a constant blur of colour. Gushes of golden numbers—some of them in the millions—accompany every sword swing and magical burst. AoE patterns light up the floor, warning me about the maelstrom I’ll soon have to dodge my way through. And while all of this is going on…
Understanding matchmaking in Arc Raiders has been something of a white whale for players, especially since we first got confirmation that aggression-based matchmaking did actually play a part in creating lobbies. Since then Embark has been more open about what actually goes into its matchmaking and is more responsive to players who asked for changes,…
New CEO Asha Sharma hit the reset button on Xbox yesterday, taking out 1,600 jobs at once with another 1,600 cuts still to come before the end of the year. Very few studios escaped the scythe: even id Software’s legendary name did not save it, and it quickly became clear the studio had been swept…
XHitman and 007 First Light developer IO Interactive announced last week that it had lost funding for Project Fantasy, an “online fantasy RPG” first announced in 2023, and that as a result, “we have to adapt to this new reality and its short-term consequences, including staffing decisions.” That sure sounded like layoffs were incoming, and…
Owlcat Games “determined to make amends”. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was, unfortunately, a huge letdown at launch on Switch 2. In our 4/10 review, we called it a “borderline disaster” thanks to “constantly stuttering frame rate, long loading times, unresponsive and laggy menus and controls, a huge graphical downgrade, and hard crashes”. Yikes. Well, thankfully,…
Three more obscure titles now preserved & playable. More obscure titles in the “Tales of Mobile” series for Japanese feature phones have just been preserved, ensuring the games are available for those wanting to learn more about some of the rarer mobile entries in the long-running RPG series. The news was revealed on social media,…