Analyst claims Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other recent JRPG has on Steam—and it’s got me wondering what the secret sauce is

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 might be a front-runner for my own GOTY personal pick in 2025—its hooks are well and truly in my skin, ticking all the right boxes for my inner RPG and Sekiro freaks. A banger soundtrack, gripping story, and an all-around good first showing from Sandfall Interactive has seen it reach major…

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Revenge of the Savage Planet review

The first thing that hits you is the way your character walks. There you are, excreted out into the furthest reaches of the universe by an uncaring colonisation corporation, made redundant by said corporation immediately upon hitting terra firma and left to scrabble around for scattered survival packages that will allow you to just barely…

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‘He’s very good at finding really cool people’: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely blew my expectations out of the water. Its story and combat quickly became all-consuming—I sank 13 hours into it over just one weekend. But the best part of this French RPG has to be its soundtrack, which is apparently all thanks to just one composer. Lorien Testard had never worked…

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The Month of Meh event is underway in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, finally letting you take photos with a strange man dressed as an egg

Any time there’s an opportunity to run a quirky seasonal event, Hello Kitty Island Adventure is happy to oblige. So, it’s not surprising that a month-long celebration for all things eggs, the Month of Meh, is the current one underway. The Month of Meh event is here to celebrate Gudetama, one of Hello Kitty’s friends…

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Cryptocurrency investors are being targeted for ransom, kidnappings, and mutilations across France, with abductors demanding between $6M and $10M in crytpo funds

Crypto-investors have become the target of a string of kidnappings taking place across France and Western Europe. Police are currently investigating whether or not the cases are linked after freeing the latest victim from a home south of Paris last Saturday. Across the cases kidnappers are demanding ransoms in crypto, likely due to its untraceable…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 6

Sail straight through to a nice, clean, winning row of green letters with our easily accessed answer to the May 6 (1417) Wordle if you’re in the mood for a quick win. And if you’re in the mood for a longer session, we can still help. We’ve got general tips ready to check out, as…

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