Last month we saw quite a few adventure games spring into action. What game from last month’s lineup was a fresh start? Some of the big new releases included Assassin’s Creed Shadows, MLB The Show 25, Hitman World of Assassination (PS VR2), and Split Fiction. How does it work? At the end of every month,…
A week ago, Nintendo released a Switch commercial called “Our Favorite Ways to Play”. There were many kids and teens in the commercial, including 16-year-old Aaron Waddingham. Waddingham has Down syndrome, and his mother says that this had a lot to do with why her son was in the commercial in the first place. Sue…
Switching to an open world, Borderlands 4 is massive and packed full of sidequests and activities to complete, though these generally don’t give you tons of experience to level up. Completing it all once is all well and good, but you won’t want to trudge through every single quest again on an alternate character. That’s…
Microsoft has just shared an update to DirectX, labelling it “the biggest wave of new tooling features in DirectX’s history.” The company, alongside major “GPU hardware partners”, has shared its “dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows.” Microsoft reports, “AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm have worked closely with us throughout feature development, each…
Evangelion The Fighting Impact Rebuild launched on mobile in Japan. Preserving Japanese phone games is a tricky and often underappreciated process. These titles weren’t distributed physically but as digital downloads via services such as i-mode, so tracking them down and ensuring they’re not lost forever as hardware dies is effectively a race against time. While…
Nintendo has confirmed that the next Super Smash Bros Ultimate spirit board event will begin on Friday, 12th February. For this special event, the Super Smash Bros Ultimate Spirit Board will feature spirits with claws which you will need to defeat to get that all-important gold. Just remember to boot up the game on Friday…
There are some game premises that are simply irresistible. “Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht” is the kind of pitch I cannot turn down. So it is that I find myself sweatily rolling dice against a leering vampire as I go all-in with…
It’s fair to say that Windows Recall has been one of Microsoft’s more controversial ideas in recent times. The AI-powered system routinely captures screenshots of your monitor’s output and stores them in an encrypted local database, allowing you to then search for apps, websites, or even document text and images. With its latest Windows 11…
No need to panic, though. Nintendo’s share price has taken a slight hit since the company officially revealed its next-gen hardware: the Nintendo Switch 2. As reported by Al Jazeera (thanks, Eurogamer), Nintendo’s share price fell as much as 7.2% following the surprise reveal. It recovered slightly during the following hours, but by the day’s…
Since first launching in 1998, the Thief series of stealth games helped define the genre, maintaining notoriety across several games spanning nearly three decades. Steven Gallagher (Creative Director at Eidos-Montréal) and I are here to give PlayStation Blog readers the first glimpse into the next iteration of the franchise, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. Play…