The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: ‘He’s super fast’

Rayman Legends, an extremely solid platformer from 2013, is getting a fully-fledged remake with 3D graphics—as announced during tonight’s Playstation State of Play—dubbed Rayman Legends Retold. And, more to the point, a whole new soundtrack composed by both Rayman OG Christophe Héral, but also industry veteran Grant Kirkhope. You might know him from his work…

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3 years after a $2 billion implosion, studio closures, and cancellations, Embracer’s new CEO hopes ‘trust is improving’

Embracer CEO Phil Rogers didn’t win himself many new fans when he said a few years ago that the company’s slash-and-burn restructuring, the result of years of hand-over-fist acquisitions that, whoops, it couldn’t really afford, was “how we win.” This was when Rogers was still Embracer’s interim chief strategy officer, prior to his 2025 ascension…

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Pragmata director Yonghee Cho says it’s not a sad dad game for a very simple reason: ‘I’m not a sad dad, I’m a very happy dad’

Pragmata is one of my favorite games of the year so far, and a big part of that is down to the relationship between protagonists Hugh and Diana, a deeply normal in-over-his-head guy and a wide-eyed, enthusiastic young android. Banter that could so easily come off as infantilizing, and a story that could easily come…

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Here’s how the Oblivion Remastered attributes list is different from the original

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a faithful recreation of the classic RPG, even down to its leveling and progression systems. Your main attributes govern your weapon damage and skill values, and your character’s build matters much more than you’d think for a Bethesda RPG. Oblivion Remastered attributes list (Image credit: Bethesda) Deciding which…

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Part of me wishes we could see the Subnautica 2 the devs scrapped: The Dwarf Fortress of ecosystem simulators

Subnautica, if you ask me, is a game about being incredibly wet and alarmingly hungry. It’s an under-the-sea game (you can tell from the name) about hoovering up resources and using them to construct ever-more complex tools that you transcend the barriers placed before you by nature. That’s what Subnautica was, and, though I’ve not…

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AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D ‘later this year’ but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition

Sometimes the best things at Computex are the things that aren’t at Computex; namely, talk of upcoming tech. Case in point here is AMD’s Ryzen and Radeon VP and GM David McAfee telling Tom’s Hardware that a Zen 5 replacement for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D—meaning surely a Ryzen 5 9600X3D—“may be something that we look…

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