Shovel Knight was a major indie hit, with more than three million copies sold, an “overwhelmingly positive” rating on Steam, and a brand so recognizable it’s spawned spinoffs and crossovers with games ranging from Bloodstained to For Honor. But in the 10 years since Shovel Knight first appeared, developer Yacht Club Games has struggled to…
Better late than never. One of our biggest gripes with Antonblast on the Switch was its performance at launch. In our review, we noted that slowdown during more chaotic moments of gameplay can “cheapen the experience enough to be disappointing”, which isn’t really ideal for a 2D platformer in which speed is a key factor….
Summer is officially here, and as a British person it is the law of this nation for me to say it’s a bit hot, init? My AC-less apartment is being held together by a box fan and a dream. I haven’t had a proper night’s sleep in weeks, and I fear I’ve forgotten how it…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
A new version of the Nvidia App has been rolled out with a couple of pretty trick features. The big news items with Nvidia App version 11.0.3.218 are custom DLSS upscaling resolutions and a new AI assistant called Project G-Assist that runs locally on your PC. The first feature involves the ability to set the…
Nintendo has filed a patent for its Nintendo Switch Lite design with the Japan Patent Office. The listing explains simply that it is “an electronic computer capable of playing a game” along with the names of the two creators of the filing, Yui Ehara and Junichiro Miyatake. The handheld-only console released back in September of…
Just a couple weeks after Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu said it intends “to be aggressive in applying AI” to its content creation processes, the company has confirmed with VGC that its new multiplayer party shooter Foamstars does in fact use AI-generated art—but just a teeny little bit. The presence of AI art in Foamstars…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for April 15 to 19 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published April 12, 2024 This is Next Week on Xbox! Every week, we show you all the games that are coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! You can…
Star Citizen may not be the most famously overdue videogame of all time, but it has to be a top-five contender, especially given that it is now just shy of $865 million (and no, there’s not an errant zero in there, that’s eight-hundred and sixty-five million smackeroos) raised in crowdfunding. Developer Cloud Imperium Games recently…
Lethal Company is a hard act to follow. A multiplayer hit so singular that it defined a whole subgenre of chaotic multiplayer survival job simulators, with REPO being the biggest recently. So what’s solo creator Zeekerss doing next? Clearly not letting the fame and money go to his head. He’s returning to finish an old…