After Hours is an Augmented Reality Game, which means its puzzles have to be solved with information from outside the game—mostly from your web browser. One puzzle apparently involves combining Brownsville, New York’s zip code with a phone number to find an ISBN code, which leads to a book you need to look at the…
A creative mix. Nintendo’s Switch Online Playtest Program struggled to contain leaks when it went live last year and it looks like the inventors behind this concept have now been revealed. According to a new patent doing the rounds, the creative talent leading this playtest includes Yusuke Amano, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Masaki Wada, and Shinya Yano….
“Video games are now a huge global industry”. The UK’s National Videogame Museum is currently running a new event which opens up its gallery to players and fans via “a unique exhibition that puts personal videogame stories, memories andcollections”. ‘Together We Play’ kicked off on 18th July, and aims to celebrate “the communities, collections, friendships,…
Turtle Beach has decided it likes to put screens on its gamepads. That’s fine: the LCD display on the excellent Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra was a lot more useful than I thought it would be. When it comes to the new Stealth Pivot, the screen isn’t even the chief novelty. No, the big novelty here…
Man I just love a game where I move all my little stuff around on my little shelves. I adored the tactile fiddling about in Potion Craft and sorting my store shelves in Tiny Bookshop—though I did skip Unpacking for some reason—and upcoming funky shop sim Thrifty Business is right at the pinnacle of that…
Rockstar has launched an official mods shop, Cfx Marketplace, for “every server and every player” to hand over their lovely loot (thanks, GI.biz). The news comes three years after Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re, a Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption modding team, which also runs the roleplay servers FiveM and RedM. If you’re…
For those new to the game, Grit and Valor – 1949 is a real-time tactics roguelite set in an alt-history World War 2. Evil Axis forces dominate, and Europe is on its knees – only you stand as humanity’s final hope. Become the Commander of an elite Mech Squadron across thrilling battles – think fast,…
Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t been out for even a day yet, and already the character customisation is being manipulated in ways I didn’t expect so soon. It was only a matter of time before we saw recreations of characters from TV shows, other games, or even memes and pop culture icons like Ronald McDonald. As…
16% of Epic’s workforce has been axed. Epic Games this week laid off 16% of its workforce, with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier suggesting the Fall Guys developer Mediatonic had been “hit very hard”. This allegedly followed with claims elsewhere online that the entire UK-based team had been cut. Apparently, this is not the case. In a…
Even though Disney Dreamlight Valley is a fairly relaxed game, there’s always something more to prepare for the launch of a big update. Wonderland Whimsy is the next to join the pack, and before it releases on April 23, there are some things you should consider doing so you have a head start in Wonderland….