The latest UK video game software charts are in during the lockdown and it has been an interesting week for boxed software. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has risen to No.1 which is where it was at launch and Ring Fit Adventure has been back in stock and has climbed to No.4. Square Enix’s latest JRPG…
Ray tracing is one of those technologies that’s mighty impressive but also seems to take a mighty amount of time to get right. We saw the first proper go at it with the RTX 20-series, and we’re now three generations on and still relying on workarounds to achieve global illumination. One technique to help make…
From the publisher of Blue Prince and developer Exnilo Studio comes what looks like another mind-bending puzzle game: Revealed at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, Rivage sees you stuck in a time loop aboard a seemingly abandoned space station. It’s a bad situation, but if Matt Damon can defeat the odds in space, then…
Hey all! Nick here, with an exciting announcement — Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is going to be released on PS4 August 8th! I’m here to talk a little bit about what the game is all about. The original seed for the world of Masquerada was a Dungeons & Dragons campaign our Creative Director, Ian, used…
Starting today, those of you selected for our beta program will get an early peek at some of the new features coming to PS4 with our next major system software update, version 4.50 (codenamed Sasuke). If you signed up for the beta and were chosen, you’ll receive an email with instructions on how to download…
A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel’s Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for “R&D” purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot…
There must be some stray DNA in the water lately. In November, disappointing 2008 everything sim Spore inexplicably popped back up in the news. Then in December, I checked out Everything is Crab, a clever roguelike that turned out to realise some of that game’s lost potential. Now I’m playing Pathogenic, another game that pulls…
A lot of things are going to change when Nvidia’s new RTX Blackwell cards launch this month, with a bunch of it coming to existing cards as well as the RTX 50-series. But will one of those changes see DLSS Frame Generation coming to the Ampere-based RTX 30-series? It’s possible, because now we’re just talking…
Jet Set Radio was released in Japan on June 29th, 2000. The video game preservation website Sega Dreamcast Info has released an early localization build of Jet Set Radio (otherwise known in the North America as Jet Grind Radio), in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Dreamcast title’s Japanese release. The build, which…
Call me naive, but I was hopeful for Bloodborne news at Sony’s State of Play on Wednesday. There were a bunch of signs pointing to it, or at least, it felt that way among the sizable population of Bloodborne fans whose proficiency at conspiratorial dot-connecting has reached disturbing levels. In December Sony released a new…