Not Abyssmal. During Sony’s February 2025 State of Play presentation, the big shadow drop was Koei Tecmo’s Warriors: Abyss, which offers a low-budget, roguelite take on the popular Warriors hack ‘n’ slash formula. The good news is that this genre hybrid feels like both halves fit perfectly together—the mindlessness of the combat mixed with the…
Live service games are treated like some great and powerful cheat code for generating awesome amounts of shareholder value. It’s so great that EA’s CEO thought that it could’ve saved Dragon Age: The Veilguard from underperforming, and a recent GDC survey revealed that a third of “triple-A developers” are working on live service games as…
The bug made it so that players were unable to access their paid DLC. Square Enix has announced it is ending support for the iOS version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered, following the discovery of an unfixable bug affecting the game’s paid DLC (h/t: The Verge). Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered was released for…
Around 20 unconfirmed layoffs reported. A new report from Insider Gaming (thanks, Eurogamer) has revealed that multiple layoffs have occurred at studio 10:10 Games following the release of Funko Fusion in 2024. Essentially, anonymous sources have stated that the game was a “complete commercial and critical failure” and is the primary catalyst behind around 20…
Viewers of Super Mario 64 speedrunner, Bubzia, presumably spent an entire 60 minutes chewing off their fingernails—not because he was doing poorly, but because he was doing rather well. See, Bubzia is a special kind of speedrunner, choosing to tackle his game of choice with a blindfold on, and he’s been grinding at his world…
We’ve all seen those Meta Quest adverts, in which a practically-challenged human being wears a VR headset for basic construction tasks, like building a crib, with great success. However, The Swedish Maker has taken things further by several orders of magnitude—by wearing a Meta Quest 3 for the entirety of a woodworking project, including while…
In 2019, AMD started a new paradigm in processor design, with its Zen 2 architecture and the use of chiplets. Since then, every CCD or Core Complex Die has been home to eight cores—no more, no less. However, if one tech leaker is to be believed, then Zen 6 will mark a new era for…
My many years of experience have taught me: you should only stay with someone because of who they are, not who you think they could be. The last two weeks have taught me: unless they are a horse. Because it turns out that, if you stick with the worst nags in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…
“Still console testing”. Developer Toby Fox is back with another update on the much-anticipated Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4, inching toward an as-yet unknown release date that is still promised to come later this year. In short, console testing is still ongoing. Our assumption here is that the Switch is included in these tests, but…
‘Atari Arcade 2’ releases this April. Blaze Entertainment — the company behind Evercade — has officially announced Atari Arcade 2, a new cart that features a collection of 10 titles from Atari. The collection is a follow-up to 2021’s Atari Arcade 1, which previously compiled 13 classic Atari arcade titles, including legendary games like Asteroids,…