Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal

Bloodlines 2’s Valentine’s patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says ‘I love you’ like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal

Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 may not have been the success Paradox Interactive hoped, but the publisher has committed to standing by the troubled sequel, and developer The Chinese Room has been doling out updates for the game since launch. December brought a vaguely holiday-themed update that added custom difficulty settings and a Santa-ish skin to…

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MPAA Claims Victory Against Popcorn Time

Official Popcorn Time fork shuts down The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is trumpeting a victory in the war against piracy and it wants the world to know about it. Specifically, it managed to shut down the official Popcorn Time fork and YTS, a torrent site serving up copyrighted movies and TV shows, through…

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Resident Evil 9’s director reveals there was a ‘phantom Chapter 2’ that was cut ‘in the process of finalising the game’s structure’

Resident Evil Requiem managed to snag the spot of my favourite modern Resi game on release. At just 10 hours long it managed to have me hooked for every zombie jumpscare and complicated puzzle. I didn’t think it could get much better, but now I’m finding out that there was even more to it. “I’ve…

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Feature: “I Still Think The Virtual Boy Was Probably Just Too Ahead Of Its Time” – Japanese Developers On Nintendo’s Most Infamous Flop

“I heard Nakatsuji-san mutter, ‘So that’s Gunpei Yokoi…’”. Nintendo has not been accustomed to failure over the past few decades, so it was a surprise to many to learn that the Kyoto-based giant is embracing one of its most costly failures: the Virtual Boy. Reading the recent news story on the value of Athena’s Virtual…

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Old School Runescape player grinds the worst version of a minigame for 149 long hours and abandons 88 levels of XP, just to get a cute raccoon without committing a single traceable crime

Old School Runescape players are on another level, man. The game’s flooded with zero-sum games where the house always wins: yet compared to the person who gathered 1 million of the same crappy fish, this is small pennies. Despite this, I’m still somehow surprised whenever somebody goes so far out of the way just to…

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