Mobile gaming has been a bit of a laughing stock for some time, but the last few years have seen a slight change in that attitude. The likes of Fortnite and Genshin Impact are almost as good on mobile as a console experience, and the thought of being able to hop on the battle bus…
For PC gamers, AMD’s Ryzen chips are the processors of choice, but they’re also hot stuff for servers, workstations, and all kinds of portable devices. It’s not just the power of the Zen architecture that makes them so good; it’s the use of chiplets, 3D V-Cache, and how they’re all connected that makes them the…
Deep Field Games just can’t stop adding to Abiotic Factor. Consistently impressive through its early access development, the enormous 1.0 version was crowned “one of the greatest survival crafting games ever made” by Morgan Park in his Abiotic Factor Review. While I haven’t delved as deeply as Morgan, I’ve likewise been bedazzled by its sumptuous…
Darwin’s evolution. Earlier this year, in Sony’s February State of Play, Konami revealed Darwin’s Paradox!, an octopus platformer with more than a little Inside-esque stealth gameplay under the hood. A Switch 1 version was announced at the time, but a new trailer suggests that things might have made the jump entirely to Switch 2. The…
Whenever I get the itch to play Minecraft again, I always browse the Marketplace first to see if there are any packs I can add to make the game that little bit more exciting. There’s an overwhelming amount of content you can spend your coins on, like adding a larger variety of animals and fish…
Working for the Devil isn’t as bad as it may sound. You’ve got your own workspace, a helpful yet somewhat terrifying assistant, and as much toilet paper as you could ever want. All you have to do is sort through the mail, sending letters to the right floor and burning all the junk. This is…
Can you believe videogames have been around for, at minimum, 43 years? That’s probably longer than any human has ever lived, and they show no sign of letting up, despite the many letters I’ve written to the government. And wouldn’t you know it—the Golden Joystick Awards return for their 43rd annual show this November 20,…
“Experience Deltarune as if it were made in the ’90s”. After two years of work, a group of EarthBound ROM hackers has released something truly special for fans of the Toby Fox-developed indie game Deltarune: a recreation of the game’s first chapter inside the SNES RPG. Bound to the Dark World had been developed in…
There have been some incredible weapons in the history of PC gaming, and while not exclusive to the genre, there’s no doubting that most of them have come out of FPS games. From Painkiller’s Stake Gun, through to Quake’s Railgun, and onto Unreal Tournament’s Flak Cannon, among many others, there are many iconic weapons in…
“I used Castlevania, a game I was really into at the time, as a reference”. Back in 2023, former Tecmo staffer Hideo Yoshizawa – who served as director on 1988’s Ninja Gaiden – posted a series of messages on social media which really dug into the legendary game’s genesis and development. The always-excellent Shmuplations has…