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A comment from Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay caused mild upset this week—”pirate everything from Ubisoft,” one response demanded—but the hostile reaction might have more to do with general anxiety over the future of game ownership than his actual point, which didn’t strike me as surprising or untrue. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Tremblay…
In November, fan translation group Hilltop Works released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (aka My Summer Vacation 2), a beloved adventure/life sim that fans have been eager to play in English for more than 20 years. After that release Hilltop wasted no time leaping into its next project, which was announced today…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Aquamarine/Chunsoft Released: 2002 Japanese PCs: Windows 98 and newer (Image credit: Chunsoft) I didn’t so much buy this game as I did desperately fight the universe to…
This is a weird one: Back in April 2023, Remedy Entertainment unveiled a new logo, a stylized “R” it said represented “a fresh and refined look” for the studio. But, as discovered by Respawn First, Take-Two Interactive has filed oppositions to Remedy’s trademark application in the UK and EU, claiming a “likelihood of confusion” with…
In a decade of tuning into Awesome Games Done Quick, I’ve seen runners speed through gaming history while blindfolded, with hands tied behind their backs, and even two runners sharing a single controller, but I’ve never seen what happened today at AGDQ 2024: a dog and his owner teamed up to speedrun an NES classic…
After some leaked screenshots from the EA app let the cat out of the bag last week, EA has revealed the full details on two new Sims 4 DLC kits coming this week. The Castle Estate Kit and Goth Galore Kit were both born out of themes voted on by players last summer and are…
Just a couple weeks after Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu said it intends “to be aggressive in applying AI” to its content creation processes, the company has confirmed with VGC that its new multiplayer party shooter Foamstars does in fact use AI-generated art—but just a teeny little bit. The presence of AI art in Foamstars…
Steam informs me that Fallout: New Vegas is my second-most-played game of all time (after Crusader Kings 2), and I will still take any excuse to boot it up again. Lucky for me, then, that some enterprising modders have launched an ongoing online contest taking place entirely within the borders of NV’s Mojave Desert. Called…
Everyone has dreamed of taking care of a little robot spider who is scarily good at killing demons, and now Diablo 4 season 3 will finally make it a reality. The Season of the Construct, starting January 23, will give every Diablo 4 player a spider companion named the “Seneschal”, that can be equipped with…
It ain’t quite Tekken without capoeira fighter Eddy Gordo, which is why it makes total sense that he’s just been announced as the first DLC character for Tekken 8. Prepare to wear your X and O buttons down once more. He was revealed during “Tekken Talk Live” at the Tekken World Tour 2023 finals this…