Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, as the RPG sickos on the PC Gamer staff are to be believed, is an RPG that never quite got its time in the sun. While we rated it pretty highly, giving it a solid 88 in our review back in the day, low sales caused Obsidian no shortage of…
“Whether you’re a casual fan or a dedicated collector, your opinions matter”. Blaze, the company behind the Evercade range of systems, is currently running a survey to find out more about its customers—as well as those who have yet to purchase an Evercade product. The survey is live until June 19th, and will “help shape…
The sexiest game out there broke a new concurrent player record over the weekend. That’s right—Dune: Awakening broached the top 100 most-played games of all time on Steam, netting a peak concurrent player count of 189,333 players online on Sunday. That puts it at a happy 85 on SteamDB’s chart of most-played games, sandwiched between…
Disney Dreamlight Valley released its second DLC last year, The Storybook Vale. Unlike the first, A Rift in Time, the second DLC is being released in two parts, the first having rolled out in November, with the second due later this year. More specifically, this summer, with plans to round off the story alongside a…
Saiyūki World 2 & Rod Land announced! City Connection has announced it will be bringing two more Jaleco-published Nintendo Famicom titles to the Nintendo Switch in the near future, as part of its JALECOlle Famicom Ver series of retro reissues. These include the Journey to the West-inspired platformer Saiyūki World 2 (which was localized as…
When Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer,…
Enter the ’90s. Note. Gex Trilogy isn’t playable on Switch 2 via backwards compatibility at the time of writing, although a patch has been submitted to Nintendo for review, according to Limited Run. We’ll update this note when we hear more. Dimitris Giannakis’s Carbon Engine is back on behalf of Limited Run Games, and, despite…
The threat of Generative AI is very real. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at present, and not always for positive reasons. While the relentless march of technology is giving us AI-based solutions for scientific and medical breakthroughs, the arrival of ‘Generative AI’—where AI text, audio, video and image models hoover up human-made content and…
An engineer toying around with ChatGPT found OpenAI’s apparently world-leading LLM getting a little bolshy about how it would do at chess. In fact, ChatGPT itself asked Citrix engineer Robert Caruso to set it up against a basic chess program to see “how quickly” it would win: and then proceeded to get battered by an…
Stray, a rather neat little puzzle-platformer about a cat in a post-apocalyptic robo-world, was fairly well received back in 2022. We gave it a solid 82 in our review, which made publisher Annapura’s collapse late last year all the more concerning for studio BlueTwelve. At the very least, however, Stray’s former writer is going places….