Ozaki worked on Phantasy Star III with her future husband. Given that the value of human-created art is being fiercely debated online at the moment, it seems like a good time to shine a light on an artist who isn’t as famous as some within the games industry—in fact, Toyonaka Ozaki’s real name isn’t even…
If you need an excuse to convince your friends to play Inzoi with you, the Play Together event might be your golden ticket. To participate, you need to generate a referral code which you can send to your friends in return for some adorable in-game goodies. Even though it sounds like it, taking part in…
Vector5 Games who was behind titles such as Space Station 23, Laserscape, Jump Out, and our personal favorite Santa’s Workout has recently released a new Commodore 64 game of ‘Zookeeper’. A Columns/Match 3 style of game that has you matching the required amount of animals in a Zoo to complete the level. In light of this…
“There’s surely more to come from this story,” I said back in February and sure enough ASRock has a new blog post addressing reports of toasted AMD Ryzen 9000-chips in X870 motherboards. It turns out the problem might be, somewhat suitably, crumbs. It seems one of the problematic X870 motherboards from the Reddit post we…
Picture yourself stranded alone on an alien planet. With no-one around to help, and no-one coming to the rescue, your only salvation lies in the endless darkness of a sprawling cave system. Would you dare face the dangers that lurk in the dark? Welcome to the world of Into Black, a VR action/exploration game about…
“Incomplete and frustrating”. Yesterday’s shock announcement that Konami and M2 are bundling up key Gradius entries along with a brand-new entry in the Salamander spin-off series was very welcome indeed, but it didn’t take long for some concerned fans to spot potential problems with the upcoming Gradius Origins collection. The most obvious is that this…
Back in January, as part of its half-yearly report, Games Workshop said of Warhammer that “we own what we believe is some of the most underexploited intellectual property globally”. Corpo-speak aside, I think it’s true—there’s an odd aspect to the worlds of Warhammer that they’re very widely loved, but the main way of engaging with…
Marvel Rivals has hit critical referential mass in a very Fortnitian (which is a word I just made up) way—see, being rooted in a long-standing comic franchise, and being a live service game, Marvel Rivals is incentivised to be self-referential with winks and nods to its own culture. It just so happens that some of…
There are unmistakable similarities. At the end of the latest trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, we were bestowed with a brief but tantalising glimpse at a brand-new suit for long-time protagonist Samus Aran. At first glance, the suit looks completely new; something we’ve not yet seen from the Metroid Series. Or is it..? Well,…
Elden Ring is going to be one of those games that never dies. Sure, it’s nigh a hundred hours for your first playthrough, and the fantastic Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion was bigger than most mainline Dark Souls games. But beyond that, it has a bustling mod scene, and few projects exemplify that better than…