Yuji Naka, the creator behind Nights into Dreams and Sonic the Hedgehog, has revealed to IGN that he feels that his new project Balan Wonderworld is his one big shot to create a platformer with Square Enix. Mr. Naka was told by the president of Square Enix that he had one chance to make a…
It’s all about the sound effect keyring. Assault Suits Valken (or Cybernator, as you might know it) was a jaw-dropping experience back in the ’90s. Here was a game which successfully communicated the feeling of what it must be like to control a huge, hulking robot; instead of dashing around the screen at high speed,…
Insane Robots is a unique card battler with intense multiplayer battles, a huge one-player campaign, randomly generated battle arenas, and a unique cast of beautifully illustrated robots. With all of that added, we took away two big things normally associated with the genre that some players hate: time-consuming deck building and expensive card collecting. This…
Today I can exclusively reveal that I am the Batman. Or at least, I was for a short while when I went to visit Rocksteady Studios to check out the progress of Batman: Arkham VR. And, true to the Dark Knight himself, this PlayStation VR game is shaping up to be a masterful — and…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Nintendo has today announced and delivered a surprise Nintendo Direct which is titled Nintendo Direct Mini. There’s a number of games shown off including the long-awaited Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and Bravely Default II. The March 2020 Nintendo Direct Mini is roughly 25 minutes long and the release dates in the video are subject to…
PlayStation Plus members! Your voices have been heard. Thanks to our Vote to Play campaign — which gave you the ability to vote on a game for our September Plus offering — we’re delighted to reveal your selection, and the first title in next month’s free games lineup: Grow Home on PS4. If you voted…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time on the internet, it’s that you never, ever challenge a speedrunner. They live for challenges. Baldur’s Gate 3 is so open-ended it nudges into immersive sim territory—which means that its speedrun tactics have been suitably hare-brained, and runner Mae has been at the centre of them…
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Vampire Survivors (Image credit: Poncle) Developer: Poncle Year: 2022 For most of a run in Vampire Survivors, you’re scrambling. Grabbing XP gems wherever you can, praying for the weapons you need, ducking and weaving around just-slightly-too-big-to-handle hordes. A lot of…
Ray Reconstruction is the latest shiny ray tracing feature Nvidia, it’s come along as part of DLSS 3.5 and it’s made the Cyperpunk 2077 2.0 update look absolutely gorgeous. On Nvidia graphics cards only, of course. And only for Nvidia graphics cards that are capable of delivering a decent frame rate in the incredibly demanding…