Hey there PlayStation.Blog readers! My name is Michał “Luigi” Dobrowolski, and I’m a Senior Game Designer at CD Projekt Red. For more than a year now we’ve been working on our latest title, which I’m here to tell you more about here today. Gwent started out as a mini-game in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt….
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated today during the Nintendo Management Briefing Session that its Resource and Development team is currently exploring cutting-edge technology, how intuitive it will be for users to use, and how to further improve all-important battery life. Previously the team had been looking at conventional technology in an effort to reduce pricing…
Though FutureLab’s denying the rumours. After years of content updates and DLC, developer FuturLab has today revealed PowerWash Simulator 2. If that wasn’t news to scrub up for, it seems like it’ll be cleaning its way onto Switch 2. As the name suggests, this is a full-blown sequel to the 2022 clean ’em up (is…
The latest UK video game software charts are now in courtesy of the team at Games Industry. This week saw the release of The Last of Us: Part II which shot straight to No.1 and claimed the biggest UK launch for any boxed game released this year. However, Nintendo continues to do well in the…
Dave James, EIC Hardware (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been… on the terminal tip. With Linux finally playing nice with gaming laptops, and sweet-talking our IT team to give me access to my work accounts, the move away from Windows has been a joy. I’m a computer nerd and learning how a new computer…
MindsEye is a bit of a mess. The first proper effort of Build a Rocket Boy, a studio helmed by former GTA developer Leslie Benzies, the game fell flat on its face mostly because it was just wasn’t great. The studio hasn’t given up on it though, in part because it was apparently all because…
Konami sure is an odd company. On the one hand, it seems almost desperate to assure Metal Gear fans that—no, really—it has nothing but love and worship for the Metal Gears of old, and that it can be trusted to steward the series into the future. On the other, it’s pathologically averse to ever saying…
Bespoke Popeye sprites made by Willaert used without permission. If you like watching documentaries about video games, then there’s a good chance you’ve seen Game Changers, which streaming now on the Discovery channel. This eight-part limited series looks at “the history behind the most iconic games and how they went on to influence the world…
Black and blue, not white and gold. Fresh images of what looks to be the left Joy-Con controller from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ hardware have been posted online, supposedly originating from China. Hosted over on Reddit by ‘thisSubIsAtrocious‘ and subsequently shared all over social media, the Joy-Con sports the new magnetic rail with which to…
Piddle-paddle. Atari has announced that qomp 2, the long-awaited sequel to the iconic Pong (and the first qomp, of course), will launch on the Nintendo Switch eShop on February 20th, 2024. Of course, since Pong’s launch back in 1972, the game has had countless spin-offs and knock-offs alike, but Atari states that qomp 2 is…