“We’ll have a free Android release eventually that will make their app moot”. The world of Xbox might be chaotic and uncertain these days, but there’s still a lot of love for the brand, so when it was revealed that a new emulator was available for Android which allows you to play original Xbox games,…
Life imitating art, or the other way around? The phrase “Egg of Columbus” is used to describe a brilliant discovery which seems so obvious after the fact. It’s something we’ve been pondering for weeks now, ever since interviewing former games journalist Frank O’Connor for our recent ‘Nintendo’s Golden Ticket’ feature. “I might conflate my discovery…
Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here Welcome back! It’s a Sid and Justin show this week, and we’ve got some fun stuff to talk about: Sid has played Mortal Kombat 11, Justin is playing Kingdom Hearts III, and you — yes, you! — can play Capcom’s stunning…
Masters of Albion is coming in April, and after that designer Peter Molyneux says he’s done: It will be his last game ever. Whether that holds up over the long term remains to be seen, but his promised retirement from the industry has also triggered the end of one of the best and longest-running videogame…
Silent Hill f, a standalone spin-off of the Silent Hill series from developer NeoBards, comes to PlayStation 5 on September 25. We recently had the chance to play the game at its world premiere event in Tokyo, Japan. Psychological horror set in 1960s Japan The story begins when Hinako leaves her home to escape from…
Battlefield 2042 had some problems when it launched a couple years ago, but I said then that it was a fun game, and I say it again now: It’s fun! I feel a little less alone in thinking so lately, because it’s presently sitting at the respectable position of #13 on Steam’s list of top…
EA may have given up on Medal of Honor after Respawn’s ambitious yet unsuccessful VR spinoff, but there’s still a strong cohort of fans of the World War 2 shooter series that laid the groundwork for Call of Duty. Only last month, a developer going by Elber88 released a ground-up remake of the very first…
Nintendo UK has uploaded a brand new trailer for its upcoming Nintendo Switch JRPG extravaganza, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. The remake will be available to play on 29th May, so not long to go now. The trailer invites you to meet the eclectic cast of the former Wii game such as lead character Shulk and…
This article was published in the April 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Adding dimensions to evolving (and shrinking) chip technology Three-dimensional flash memory is the latest chip technology that’s truly revolutionary and Samsung is leading the way with its 3D-NAND flash-memory cells in 500GB SSDs. Multiterabyte…
Atelier, a Japanese RPG series, is—as you might expect—filled with conventionally attractive anime people. An upcoming entrant in the series, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, is no exception—and it has big shoes to fill. See, the game’s past protagonist, Ryza, made waves among its fanbase due to having body fat…