“Cool project” is almost done. Taki Udon – the team leader behind products like the Super 5, SuperStation, and MiSter Pi – has just teased another potential product, this time with a NES theme. “All you need are 8-bits,” he says in a post on social media. “Our hardware intern has been working on a…
“I… so unhappy…”. Happy 25th anniversary to Final Fantasy IX, the final mainline Final Fantasy game to launch on the original PlayStation and one of the most beloved entries in the entire franchise. Today, Square Enix posted an update on the Final Fantasy IX anniversary website — which opened earlier this year — to celebrate….
RimWorld‘s latest expansion, Odyssey, promises to add a pretty amazing amount of stuff to the game’s already deeply layered space colony simulation. Between the customisable spaceship, orbital exploration, new biomes, quest system, and a whole machine hive mind threat to deal with, on paper it seems like the biggest expansion yet. What’s piqued my interest,…
Pillars of Eternity might be Obsidian’s baby, but the series that most recently spawned Avowed is still inextricably tied to established fantasy fare, particularly D&D and the Forgotten Realms. It’s a setting that’s closely linked with Obsidian, despite it never designing an official D&D adaptation—the studio was founded by Black Isle veterans, after all. But…
I’m sure I’m not the only person who watched Squid Game and naively thought to themselves “yeah, I could probably do that one” about any of the challenges. From the comfort of my own couch, practically anything seems possible. Jumping over a skipping rope with a broken ankle? Done. Carving out a shape from dalgona?…
Activision has pulled a specific PC version of Call of Duty: WW2 just days after release, following reports that the game suffers from a remote code execution (RCE) exploit. This affects the so-called “Xbox PC” version of COD: WW2 that was just released on PC Game Pass: the game remains available on Steam and through…
“we are continuously considering ways to develop it further. Mega Man is one of the most recognisable video game characters out there. And while Capcom’s beloved Blue Bomber hasn’t had a brand new game since 2018’s Mega Man 11, the Japanese developer insists that he’s “one of our most important IPs”. At Capcom’s 46th Ordinary…
Monster Hunter Wilds is in a weird spot—it’s being buried under an avalanche of negative Steam ratings and community sentiment. At the time of writing, its recent reviews are “overwhelmingly negative”, with just 12% of over 20,000 user reviews being positive. Capcom’s fighting a war on two fronts—firstly, the performance for the PC version has…
Microsoft’s latest round of brutal layoffs and studio closures have garnered more attention than usual—possibly because Phil Spencer had the gall to boast about how its gaming business has “never looked stronger” in the same announcement that saw 9,000 employees laid off across its gaming division and several major projects cancelled. So much attention, in…
A Chinese FMV game that puts you in the role of a man exacting revenge on a series of ‘gold diggers’—statuesque women who con lovelorn men out of vast sums of money before vanishing into thin air—has plunged China into an exhaustingly familiar bout of gender tumult. The internet is alight with discourse about gender,…