“We put all our effort into the game”. Creating a brand-new IP can prove risky at the best of times, yet when Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka mentioned that Too Kyo Games’ latest venture, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, had effectively plunged the studio into debt, it demonstrated just how much he and collaborator Kotaro…
Category: Games March 25, 2025 Designing the Iconic Liquid Metal T-1000 Terminator for Mortal Kombat 1 Joe Epstein, Combat Designer, NetherRealm Studios Do you think there’s a villain cooler than the T-1000? Get out of here, no you don’t. The T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day stands right on the intersection of early ‘90s cool,…
“No one told us to make any kind of game. We wanted to make this game.”. When Sony Computer Entertainment released Legend of Dragoon for the PS1 in the West in the early 2000s, several publications couldn’t help but compare it to Squaresoft’s popular Final Fantasy series. Gamespot’s Peter Bartholow, for example, suggested the game…
After the tantalising tidbit of information that AMD has carved out a 45% market share in Japan comes a much bigger bomb from the company’s CEO. Dr. Lisa Su says that the Radeon RX 9070 XT is bar far the best-selling AMD Radeon GPU ever and by a factor of 10. Yes, really. Is there…
We are once again reminding you to be careful out there, after users found another Steam game acting as a front for malware. This is the second game we’ve seen hiding malicious intent on Steam’s storefront this year, and though both games have been taken down, it’s worth being extra cautious around unknown listings. According…
At this year’s GDC event, Nvidia showcased all its latest RTX technologies, including Ace, its software suite of ‘digital human technologies.’ One of the first games to use it is Inzoi, a Sims-like game, and while chatting to Nvidia about it, I learned that the AI model takes up a surprising amount of VRAM, which…
The recent release of AMD’s new lineup of GPUs has been an eventful one with cards flying off shelves within 10 minutes of being listed at launch. One of the biggest boons to the new series of cards is FSR 4, the new AI upscaling tech AMD codeveloped with PlayStation makers and Japanese tech giant…
Samsung has announced a slew of new gaming monitors and on paper, the big news is a glasses-free 3D model. However, it’s a new lower-cost version of Samsung’s 49-inch ultrawide OLED that could be most interesting in the real world. The Odyssey 3D G90XF is a 27-inch 4K model with, “advanced eye-tracking technology and a…
Malevelon Creek is burned into the memory of every true Super Earth patriot. Helldivers 2‘s dingy jungle planet became known as ‘Robot Vietnam’ as players banded together in their thousands to defend it from a massive Automaton assault. It was the first time the Helldivers 2 community picked up the game’s live-service meta-narrative and ran…
As much as we want to see it… There’s nothing like a bit of patent discussion to get us Nintendo fans all excited, eh? While the latest legal bagsy from the Big N isn’t quite as juicy as the potential hardware features we’ve seen in recent weeks, it does speak to a visual style that…