Overwatch’s season 1 Conquest event came to a close a few weeks ago. We knew Overwatch won the competition straight away, although it was close, but now we know the exact number of players who actually stayed loyal to Winston’s cause, and it’s not great. As it turns out only 32% of all the Conquest…
Is a new game coming? Square Enix has registered two new trademarks in Europe and Australia, and one of them may well be for a new Mana game. Gematsu has spotted trademarks for Visions of Mana and Pixelight. Both were filed on 7th December (in Europe) and 5th and 6th December (in Australia). A few…
Never run out of cloud storage again The future of cloud storage is likely to come down to price and supplementary features rather than allotted storage space. Looking to push the issue, Amazon today announced a pair of unlimited storage options with Amazon Cloud Drive that are available to anyone and everyone, not just Amazon…
Part of me still believes Shadow Labyrinth is some sort of collective hallucination brought on by humanity’s overconsumption of digital cherries, as the idea of a grimdark Metroidvania starring Pac-Man is just too ludicrous to comprehend. Nonetheless, the trailer, the Steam page, and our own Shadow Labyrinth Review all point to this being a real…
Rise of the Ronin arrived on Steam this week, a year after its debut on PlayStation 5, and I’m sorry to say it’s not going well, as players are reporting serious performance problems with the game. Koei Tecmo says it’s now “investigating” the reports and working on a patch that will hopefully “fix or improve…
Hang out with a game developer in a casual setting for an hour and the topic of gamedev misconceptions is bound to come up. It’s always fun to explain what people get wrong about your job, especially if it could lead to fewer misguided assumptions and mean comments on the internet. Such was the goal…
SEGA is pleased to announce that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will be releasing on January 26, 2024. Pre-order for the PlayStation® Store will start at a later date. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a dramatic RPG that depicts the series’ most compelling tale to date. Two beloved characters take the spotlight as dual…
Lethal Company is a hard act to follow. A multiplayer hit so singular that it defined a whole subgenre of chaotic multiplayer survival job simulators, with REPO being the biggest recently. So what’s solo creator Zeekerss doing next? Clearly not letting the fame and money go to his head. He’s returning to finish an old…
Cosy. Chinese dev Seed Lab has officially announced that its upcoming cosy life sim, Starsand Island, is getting a Switch 2 version alongside the Switch 1 release when it launches next year. Scheduled for release in the nebulous “early 2026” and coming to all the usual platforms, that list also now includes Nintendo’s latest console,…
“The bigger dream, being the default place to play retro games, we’re still working on”. Modern emulators have made it easier than ever to play your favourite retro games on a phone, laptop, or even smart refrigerator, but unless you have some technical know-how, it isn’t easy to take your saves with you. Patrick Corrigan…