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I love Atlus’ JRPGs but most of the time, faced with the prospect of actually playing them, I flake out. I loved Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor ReFantazio, and Persona 5 is a modern classic for good reason, but in my opinion none can hold a candle to Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance. Why? Because…
Considering the months of turmoil surrounding the development of Subnautica 2, it’s not just exciting that the undersea survival game is finally launching into early access next week on May 14—it’s a minor miracle. But while the legal battle between publisher Krafton and the founders of developer Unknown Worlds was incredibly loud and extremely public,…
Masters of Albion is the new god game by Fable creator Peter Molyneux. Ahead of its early access launch in late April, studio 22cans addressed its Steam Deck compatibility in a blog post. “We have spent a significant amount of time setting this up, making sure that Masters is a smooth, playable experience on the…
Final Fantasy 14 has some weird bosses. In fact, some of the hardest encounters in the game are against enemies like his cobbled-together majesty, Perfect Alexander, and then whatever awaits us in Kefka’s ultimate-tier clown show when it launches this summer, but they’re all old news as far as I’m concerned. The real FF14 sickos…
A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited, Seamus Blackley is best known as the “father of the Xbox” after proposing and spearheading the creation and design of the Microsoft console’s first iteration. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002, but he was recently…
A week after the release of the anticipated MindsEye DLC Blacklisted, which in case you hadn’t heard was utterly godawful, it looks like the layoff hammer has fallen again on developer Build a Rocket Boy. As noted by Kotaku, multiple developers have reported a new round of redundancies at the studio, and given the report…
A CNBC report says there’s been a significant leadership shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox division, and if you’re not a fan of AI then you might want to avert your eyes. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who came into the role in February after spending two years as president of Microsoft’s CoreAI Product division, has tapped at…
China’s State Council has published a state media report through its Information Office concerning a recent legal case about a worker whose role was (at least partially) replaced by AI. The worker, identified by their surname Zhou, was hired for a tech role in quality assurance, before their employer began using AI to cover some…
Ubisoft has released the first of what it says will be “a series of deep dive articles” into the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Black Resynced, serving up a close look at the smooth new moves pirate-assassin Edward Kenway will employ as he murders his way across the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Parkour, stealth,…
The Steam Controller has been available to purchase for barely a day and it’s already sold out. That’s a familiar occurrence around major hardware launches but even Valve is surprised by the sales fervour for the new pad, which mostly sold out in minutes, not hours. In a post on Bluesky, it promises more are…