Swen Vincke, the CEO and founder of Larian Studio (developer of Baldur’s Gate 3) has taken to Twitter to share some progress on his next game—namely, he thinks he’s got a solid draft going. “Been a great morning! After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, I finally figured…
Hello everyone! I’m Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of Fantasian Neo Dimension. When Producer Hironobu Sakaguchi first contacted me about Fantasian, I had decided that this would be the last video game title which I’d produce the full soundtrack for, solely on my own. Because this was going to be my final full soundtrack project, I…
With premier stealth-tactics studio Mimimi Games shutting down, Hooded Horse will take over publishing duties for its final game: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. The 2023 isometric stealth release was widely considered a pinnacle of the genre and one of the year’s best games—PC Gamer called it just that with its Best Stealth of 2023…
Sometimes in life, you just need to climb in a big helicopter and blow stuff up from an isometric perspective. Some people (me) might even say it’s an essential part of the human experience. Yet this foundational tier on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has been cruelly denied humanity for decades. Fortunately, thousands of players are…
In Haven, you play as two lovers who gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. It’s a romantic RPG about love and freedom, but a strong characteristic of the game is that you play two characters at the same time: Yu and Kay. It’s first and foremost a solo game,…
Nintendo UK has confirmed this afternoon via the Super Mario UK Twitter account that the Captain Toad mini levels in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury will now include four-player co-op. The levels were a joy to play through in the original and they even spawned their own game in the form of Captain…
The pre-show for The Game Awards 2019 included a big announcement from Suda51. A brand new trailer for No More Heroes 3 has released, and it was reconfirmed that the game will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2020. Soon, you will be able to see Travis Touchdown “return to the Garden of Insanity…
(For Japan, obviously). Sega has a history when it comes to sponsoring football teams, with Jef United and Arsenal being two notable examples, and the Japanese company is leveraging that history via a new collaboration with sports brand Fila. As reported by Essential Japan, there are eleven different styles available in this new range. Read…
Mamma mia! The NES classic Super Mario Bros. 3 is now 35 years old. Eek. Released in Japan on October 23rd 1988, the game was hailed as an instant smash hit. Amazingly, it didn’t come to North America until February 12th, 1990. It was even worse for European gamers, who had to wait until August…