Pokémon also acknowledged. Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club has won the best “adventure” game award at the Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards for 2024. Apart from this, Pokémon Legends: Z-A took out the most anticipated title, the platformer Nine Sols won best indie and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth took out multiple awards including…
When having a computer at home became commonplace in the 1990s, an entire generation of kids immediately smuggled games onto them. “Look, this box can help do the taxes!” “Sure, dad, but it can also run Quest for Glory 2: Trial By Fire.” Games in genres that were perfect for a mouse-and-keyboard setup, like point-and-click…
When I first fired up the demo for Moves of the Diamond Hand, I rolled a character specializing in “Observation” and “Wit,” two skills I figured had to be good for the sort of talky, investigative RPG I’d clocked this as. “Cooking” had to be something like Deus Ex’s swimming skill—surely speccing into that would…
First reported by 80 Level, The Day Before studio Fntastic has reportedly sued Russian news site Yakutia.info, which is based in Fntastic’s founders’ home region of Yakutia in Siberia. The suit claims Yakutia.info damaged Fntastic’s reputation by referring to the company’s behavior surrounding The Day Before as a “scam.” The news comes from Yakutia.info itself,…
There was once a world in which Rockstar published more than two games a decade. Difficult to believe, I know, but having lived through that halcyon period, I would testify to its existence in court. A game like Manhunt 2 was sandwiched between Vice City Stories and Bully the year before, plus GTA 4 and…
Will stick drift be a thing of the past? Joy-Con drift has been a major talking point throughout the Switch’s lifecycle and if you’re worried about it making an unwanted return next-generation, there might be some good news on the horizon. The tech experts at iFixit recently did a teardown of Nintendo’s sound clock ‘Alarmo’…
Steam’s spring sale has officially sprung, bringing an array of mighty discounts like Doom 2016 for less than two dollars, and Undertale for less than one. But the best discount by raw percentage is delivered by EA, which offers multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1 for a whopping 95% off. Released in 2016, Battlefield 1 has largely…
All the games and DLC, ranked. Tetsuya Takahashi’s Xenoblade Chronicles series began its journey on the Wii in 2010, but it’s on the Switch where the RPG series has really taken off. With two sequels, plus huge prequel DLC adventures for both, Monolith Soft’s RPG series has established itself as one of the jewels in…
Throwback farming sim Fields of Mistria proved pretty darn popular when it launched into Steam early access late last year, with over 16,000 reviewers showering it with ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ praise. It was likewise well received in PC Gamer’s own little agrarian community, with associate editor Lauren Morton selecting it as her personal pick for 2024’s…
Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id’s superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks to Steam’s spring sale. With a current RRP of £15.99/$19.99 that discount brings the price down to £1.59 in the UK, or as I have already stated numerous times, less than two…