Players Are Looking for Challenge Without Frustration The best games need to balance challenge and accessibility; if a game is too easy, players get bored. If it is too difficult, they can become frustrated and disengage entirely. The entire debate on Elden Ring’s difficulty level is what led players to review-bomb the latest title for…
When you Switch upon a star. On 16th October 2023, Disney celebrated its 100-year anniversary, and in the handful of decades since video games have existed in the home, there have been hundreds of adaptations of animated Disney classics or totally original tales to come to consoles. Some have genuinely captured the magic of the…
The industry is still feeling the aftershocks of Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands of staff in July, which came alongside multiple game cancellations. One of the most high-profile was the Perfect Dark reboot being co-developed by The Initiative, a studio that has now been closed, and Crystal Dynamics. It turns out that, per a…
Hey everyone! This is Zhenzhong (ZZ for short) from miHoYo and I wanted to first thank you all for your continued support and feedback. We’ve been working hard to improve and polish Genshin Impact based on the feedback of our avid beta testers and we’re really excited to confirm the game’s worldwide launch on PS4…
McFarlane Toys’ upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, “The Big One:” A premium, $50 take on the elite NCR Ranger from New Vegas, complete with an arsenal of weapons out of the game. The figure is up for preorder now, and set to ship in Q4…
Yes, really! We’re used to seeing some pretty ridiculous ports here at Time Extension, but every so often something will come along that will have us disbelieving our eyes. That is the case with this recent work-in-progress wireframe demo of Psygnosis’s classic PS1 racer WipEout running on the Playdate, which came to our attention only…
And we’re back! Here are your charts for PlayStation Store’s most-downloaded games of December. Congratulations to PUBG and Beat Saber for topping the PS4 and PS VR charts! We’re not quite done yet, though… stay tuned for a rundown of the most popular titles of the year soon. PS4 Games 1 PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 2 Call…
We can rebuild him. As we so often like to inform you, all of your vintage gaming hardware is slowly but surely shuffling towards the grave. As the old saying goes, everything put together falls apart, and systems like the SNES are now operating way beyond their intended lifespan. Sooner or later, things are going…
On September 22nd, ScarlettVixen released Mario Adventure 3, the sequel to her romhack Mario Adventure that’s been twelve years in the making. The original Mario Adventure is a classic rom hack of Super Mario Bros. 3 by DahrkDaiz (an old handle of Scarlett Vixen) renowned for its excellent level design. Luigi vs. Mario, which almost…
Freshen up your daily Wordle tactics with our tips, written to show you how to quickly narrow down an entire language’s worth of words into a few winning possibilities. Need something more specific? Then make a dash for the finish line with a click to the March 2 (1352) answer, or spend a while with…