State of Play returns tomorrow, February 12

State of Play returns tomorrow, February 12

State of Play is back tomorrow, February 12! Tune in live for news and updates on great games coming to PS5. The show celebrates a creative and unique selection of exciting games from studios around the world. The 40+ minute show begins February 12 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET |  11pm CET / February…

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I played the final preview build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and the 2 beasts I hunted were the best kind of absolute freaks

Monster Hunter contains multitudes. Not just multitudes of monsters, but multitudes of moods. What other game series would open with a child’s village being destroyed by a raging mythological beast, then an hour later devote five minutes to a cutscene of a roided-out chicken chasing a bunch of cats carrying a giant steak over their…

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Marvel Rivals players use the power of overwhelming negativity to encourage the devs to abandon plans for a mid-season rank reset

Yesterday, Marvel Rivals devs announced plans for an upcoming rank reset, and players wasted no time in explaining every reason why this would absolutely suck for everyone involved. “Ranks will be reset when the second half of Season 1 starts on February 21, 2025,” a Marvel Rivals blog post says. “Based on your standing at…

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Do goblin dice math, slap your D&D players with severed troll limbs, and take revenge on Shakespeare in this year’s wonderfully weird ZineQuest RPG kickstarters

Amidst this February’s storm of big PC game releases, there’s one annual tradition I want to make sure doesn’t get overlooked: ZineQuest. If you’re not familiar, it’s a whole month of independent tabletop RPG creators crowdfunding quick ‘n’ dirty projects on Kickstarter—usually adventures or supplements, but also small self-contained games. There’s always a scrappy, DIY…

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Dragon Quest 12 is still coming, says Yuji Horii, but they’re determined to make a game ‘worthy of the posthumous work’ of the late Akira Toriyama and composer Koichi Sugiyama

When I was a young journalist, I had the opportunity to interview Yuji Horii at Square Enix HQ in Tokyo. This would’ve been around 15 years ago, and my abiding memories are the great man chain-smoking throughout the session, and getting visibly irritated when the Square Enix translator was turning his long answers into short…

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The Apple II in 2024 – by By Ken Gagne

As the Apple II nears its fiftieth anniversary, it shows no sign of slowing down. The 8-bit personal computer, developed and designed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, was manufactured in various models from 1977 to 1993, making it one of Apple Inc.’s longestrunning products. Today, not only do hobbyists around the world continue to…

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