Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a ‘turn-based RPG’ so people wouldn’t ‘overlook’ it

According to former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, turn-based RPGs, particularly JRPGs, were so unpopular several years ago that he would tell indie developers to avoid using the term altogether in their marketing—even for a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Yoshida recalled giving the Clair Obscur developers this advice during a lecture at the Busan…

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How to get Chromite in Palworld

Chromite isn’t actually rare in Palworld, but you’ve got to have a specific tool (or pal) to mine it, which is different from most other resources. To save you from the guesswork, I’ll show you how to use a metal detector to get Chromite initially and also a passive farming solution for bigger hauls so…

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The new Rusty Lake game is a grim, sinister tale of family, destiny, and cooking: I fed a man porridge filled with dead bugs and he told me it tasted good

Crunch the incessant offness of Twin Peaks into a surprisingly beefy collection of point-and-click puzzle adventures and you’ve got Rusty Lake: Twisted tales of familial obligation and tradition unfolding in a backcountry idyll possessed by something better left unseen and unspoken. Imagine if ol’ Eddie Allen P. had been born a couple centuries later and…

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Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector is ‘a little bitter’ that his studio isn’t getting props for sparking Oswald the Lucky Rabbit’s big comeback

Epic Mickey man Warren Spector—also known for other games you may have heard of, like Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Deus Ex—recently took to LinkedIn to share some thoughts about Disney’s upcoming Oswald the Lucky Rabbit miniseries, which was showcased by Jon Favreau at the recent D23 event. Spector said he’s “seriously looking forward to…

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I modded GTA 5 into a life-sim RPG with mining, foraging, a mini-economy, and the ability to fall asleep in the middle of the road

Grand Theft Auto 6 will, I’m assured, be the most immersive videogame of all time. You simply won’t be able to discern reality from fiction anymore. Your gaze will drift from your television, to outside, to the television, to outside, and the sheer fidelity of Rockstar’s opus will be such that you can no longer…

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The new Framework 12 laptop’s secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel’s Wildcat Lake

Framework has just announced a new version of its Framework 12 laptop that apparently gets a bunch more battery life. That’s despite it keeping the same 50 Wh battery and thanks to Intel’s Wildcat Lake processors. The Framework 12 is the company’s two-in-one (touch-and-type), low-power, entry-level offering, mainly used for study and light work. Previously…

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The memory crisis led me down a rabbit hole into nations forming rival factions to secure the flow of computer chips and AI, with names that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Command & Conquer reboot

PC gaming has a problem: high prices for a key component, due to an unforeseen surge of interest. We’re in the thick of it, with no light at the end of the tunnel just yet, as supply will take a very long time to catch up to the outsized demand. Wait, haven’t we been here…

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