We hope you like shogi! After the high-speed action of last week’s release, Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, has decided to take a slightly different approach this week, announcing plans to reissue a title that is more likely to put your brain to the test than your reflexes. SNK’s 1995 game, Master of Syougi,…
John Mulaney will play Trip Hawkins. Amazon MGM’s upcoming movie on the life of NFL legend John Madden will also cover the creation of the best-selling series of Madden video games. Directed by David O. Russell—who is a somewhat troubling figure in Hollywood these days—the movie stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, the American professional…
“Neither of us can find any joy in working on this thing any longer”. Princess Crown is the first game that Vanillaware’s George Kamitani worked on after leaving Capcom in the 1990s, and would lay down the foundations for future classics, such as Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere. As such, it’s an important and beloved…
In its big Divinity AMA yesterday, Larian clarified its use of generative AI tools in development: No AI art or concept art, but the studio is leaving the door open for other applications like using machine learning—and potentially generative AI, it’s unclear where it draws the line in some of its communication—to help clean up…
As of this week, the official trading card game for League of Legends has a real name (it was formerly “Project K”) and a release date: It’ll be out in October as Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game. The first set, called Riftbound: Origins, will have 300 cards when it releases this summer in…
Wave one arrives this month. After a pretty meaty delay, developer Rabbit & Bear Studios has announced revised release dates for the three upcoming Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes DLC packs, the first of which arrives later this month. The JRPG was supposed to land its story expansions last year, but a last-minute delay put the…
If $2,000 for Nvidia’s toasty new RTX 5090 graphics card feels a little steep, things might be about to get a whole lot more expensive. Speaking to Republicans at a conference in Miami on Monday, President Trump threatened to impose up to 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan. “In the very near future, we’re going…
Final Fantasy 14‘s next expansion, Evercold, was announced during the fanfest over the weekend—and as someone who has had a laundry list of gripes, I couldn’t be more excited. Square Enix has finally taken note of the fact the game’s formula has grown stagnant, and promised all sorts of overhauls and reimaginings of what the…
When I was in college, I decided it was time to finally play all the acclaimed PlayStation exclusives I had heard so much about. Like many college students, my main problem was money, so I did the next best thing I could think of: I went to an electronics rental store, filled out my three…
In a surprising announcement Microsoft and Nintendo have announced that the sequel to the magical Ori and the Blind Forest is available today on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is now available via the Nintendo Switch eShop or alternatively you can order a physical edition. Check it out in…