News has emerged this morning from Bloomberg that Chinese firm Tencent is buying a 20 percent stake in Japanese developer Marvelous. Marvelous is behind recent hits like Daemon X Machina and Story of Seasons on Nintendo Switch. The move will give Marvelous more company capital to develop its game franchises. This in turn will boost…
We’ve already shown quite a bit of the three-on-three online mode in Rigs Mechanized Combat League, Guerrilla’s upcoming arena-based shooter launching exclusively for PlayStation VR. But today, we want to give you more details on the other modes included with the game. Set in the near future, Rigs Mechanized Combat League mixes elements from different…
HDD performance in a nutshell Last week, we posted our new SSD test suite with some initial results. We included a few references to hard drive performance, and at the time that seemed sufficient, but let’s really put the hard drive vs. solid state performance debate to rest. We all know SSDs are faster, particularly…
Hi! I am Etienne Jacquemain from Magic Pockets, and I’m very excited to share some details with you on Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers, a new action game coming to PlayStation 4 this November. I’ve gathered a few questions I hear often to give you all an idea of what to expect when Battle Crashers arrives!…
Chip designer Arm Holdings is going public for the second time in almost thirty years, this time with a market value of $54.5 billion. The company listed 95.5 million shares under “ARM” on Nasdaq, the largest IPO since the electric truck maker Rivian went public in 2021 for over $66 billion. The current share price…
And the pre-installed Densha de GO!: Going Round in Yamanote Line. As you’ve probably been able to tell from the abundance of news articles lately, the feature phone preservation community has been extremely active in recent months, dumping a ton of old Japanese mobile titles that were previously believed to be lost to time. Because…
I did it: I played No Man’s Sky in virtual reality! As announced during our first-ever episode of State of Play, Hello Games’ spacefaring epic gets full PS VR support this summer, and at a recent hands-on event I immediately beelined over to try it out. No Man’s Sky’s VR implementation is not a separate…
AMD said it would “simply be too expensive” and that “games would not benefit.” It was, of course, talking about why it had never launched a dual CCD Ryzen desktop processor with 3D V-Cache on both chiplets. There was no technical barrier, just a matter of pointlessness. And yet here we are, with the Ryzen…
When PlayStation 4 launched on November 15, 2013 in the US and Canada, Warframe was the first downloadable free-to-play game available. If you thought space ninjas were cool then and you downloaded our game, you either know how much has changed since that launch, or are wondering why you’re still reading about Warframe four years…
Hi everyone, It’s been an unforgettable few weeks for all of us at Insomniac Games. Thank you again for the tremendous support for Marvel’s Spider-Man since we launched last month. The response to the game has been absolutely amazing, and it’s humbling to see the emotional reactions people have shared. I’m also psyched that a…