Four Special Heroes are on their way to celebrate the Day of Devotion in Fire Emblem Heroes. They’ll soon be available in a Special Hero summoning event called Lovely Gifts, which officially starts on February 6 at 11 p.m. PT. In addition, players of the mobile game will be able to earn 5★ Special Hero…
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…
Plus uncapped Variable Refresh Rate. Developer Fumi Games has released another update for Mouse: P.I. For Hire, and it’s a big one. Not only does Version 1.2.0 target a huge amount of bugs, but it also adds in some neat new features. First up, it adds uncapped VRR for compatible devices, which should result in…
Home Sweet Home. Harvest Moon is returning to the Switch next month with two 3DS games, but it looks like there could be even more on the way. According to a new rating that’s popped up in Taiwan, the mobile game Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home ‘Deluxe Edition’ is making its way across to the…
With Afterworld, Paradox Development Studio is giving the post-apocalypse the Stellaris treatment, turning the end times into a ludicrously elaborate sandbox where you can live out all sorts of apocalyptic fantasies—whether you want to create a freewheeling band of road warriors or a new American empire. I went to Sweden to play an alpha build…
Last month, the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress received the long-awaited addition of its absentee roguelike Adventure Mode after a lengthy beta period. The fan-favorite feature from the game’s ASCII era allows players to venture the vast, procedural wilderness as a lone, probably doomed wanderer. Today, Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games announced via a Steam…
Pope Leo XIV has rejected the idea of an AI Pope, saying in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen that “if there’s anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the Pope is high on the list” (first spotted by The Register). Pope Leo, who is forthright about his views on…
There’s nothing like a bit of heart-warming, cheery news to start a new year but the PC shipment estimates for 2023, from market analysts IDC and Gartner, are anything but cheery. The total number of units shipped varies between the two groups, with IDC estimating just under 260 million, whereas Gartner puts it at around…
World of Warcraft: Midnight is doing something pretty huge—with Blizzard taking aim at the game’s combat mods, also known as AddOns, by making changes to the API (which feeds them the info they need to work). Other UI mods will stay untouched, but anything that gives you an overt advantage in a fight? It’s being…
“He was making $30,000 a year”. Mark Cerny’s career has taken him to Atari, Crystal Dynamics, Universal Interactive Studios, Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sony, but one of his most interesting places of employment has to be Sega. Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, Cerny – the lead architect behind the PS4, PS Vita,…