Even with the hardware-hungry AI industry causing component shortages and sending memory prices soaring, there’s perhaps one thing I wouldn’t have thought to blame on the datacentres: massive font licensing fees for game developers. Let me hit the backspace for a spell. At the end of November, commercial font service Fontworks ended its most affordable…
Today, we reveal how your votes shaped the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year awards for 2025. This year’s voting saw nearly 1.5 million votes cast across the awards’ 19 categories, with your choices, and your choices only, deciding which games would earn the coveted top spots and accompanying trophies. As with every year, the…
Games! Games! Games! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 2 eShop – Highlights The Rogue…
I like the new Dune movies. They’re good. I also like that Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening is based, stylistically and aesthetically, on the new Dune movies. That’s great. But I do miss some of the sheer weirdness of the original Dune film. Lynch’s Dune film. And if I had to narrow it down to…
Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…
Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…
‘Carbuncle Pi’ was released in 1991. The company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, D4 Enterprise, has revealed it will be reissuing Compile’s MSX2 action puzzler Carbuncle Pi (かーばんくるぴ) on Nintendo Switch. The game will be released on December 25th (in other words, Christmas Day), and will cost $6.49 on the Nintendo Switch eShop….
It’s once again time to come a’Reckonin’ o’er the hill and vale, Helldivers–the Festival of Reckoning’s upon us*! This is a time to reinvigorate our hearts with a commitment to spreading peace and Managed Democracy throughout the galaxy, and we’ve got a special celebration lined up to help. Play Video The Festival of Reckoning is…
More rare titles get a second lease of life. Retro-Bit’s reissues have proven to be an absolute godsend to cash-strapped gamers who want to own some of the most desirable video games of the past few decades. We’ve seen the likes of Gleylancer, Eliminate Down and El-Viento all get new physical copies in recent years,…
I will admit, I was expecting more from the Corsair One. More heat, more noise, more annoyance. After all, the original Corsair One, while admittedly smol, was a noisy ol’ chimney of a PC. But the current design—a bit taller, a bit deeper—is far more suited to the task of keeping both high-end CPU and…