Indie phenomenon Balatro beat off all-comers to be crowned PCG’s 2024 GOTY, and developer LocalThunk recently marked just over a year since release by sharing the “Balatro timeline” of the game’s development. It’s a detailed, dramatic and in parts deeply amusing account of how “some kind of project” called CardGame began in December 2021, then…
Failed to get an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT at launch for MSRP? Yeah, me too, join the club, we’ve got plenty of members right now. This graphics card launch wasn’t even the worst we’ve seen recently (cough, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, cough), with a feeling at least that some actual GPUs could be bought…
You know you’ve worked in museums for too long when you get irrationally excited about staff-only doors. While this is a new feature introduced in Two Point Museum, I know that if it had been in Hospital and Campus, I wouldn’t have had the same unbridled jolt of glee. I didn’t think I could be…
Grab your scissors, Mario. First announced back in May 2024, the second Nintendo Store in the US is scheduled to open on 15th May 2025. Nintendo San Francisco (sorry, Nintendo SAN FRANCISCO) will join the firm’s flagship store in New York and give West Coast fans somewhere to pick up Ninty-related swag, clothes, and other…
It’s funny really; Nvidia’s getting a lot of stick right now (and rightly so) for its erroneous reporting and missing ROPs on some of the latest 50-series cards, but honestly, the biggest problem for me as a semi-pro system builder (that’s what I’m calling my career, shut-up), is the fact that there are no cards…
The second trailer of Netflix’s upcoming Devil May Cry animated series showed off more than just a sequence of flashy fight scenes and Dante doing acrobatics mid-fight. We also got to see a couple more characters that’ll appear in the show like Virgil and Lady, but one appearance that we didn’t see, only heard, was…
And it’s around the corner. Publisher PM Studios and developer Pocket Trap have announced that Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is coming to Switch on 28th May 2025. Plus, a free demo will be available on the eShop… today! Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo stakes its claim to being the “world’s first yoyovania”, boasting over…
Pocket Bravery is coming to Sega’s 16-bit platform. In a live stream last night, Statera Studio, the creator of Pocket Bravery, announced that it was partnering with the homebrew developer @RheoGamer to bring the 2D-retro fighting game to the Sega Mega Drive. Originally released for PC in 2023, Pocket Bravery is designed to be a…
Only alchemy could make a title that long. The catchily-titled Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is set to land on Switch next week on 21st March, but ahead of that, Koei Tecmo has revealed a new gameplay trailer and the promise of an upcoming free demo. We’ll start with that…
Yes, I know: more AI. Love it or hate it, that’s the way things are going. For us gamers, it started with upscaling, then frame gen, then Multi Frame Gen, and soon, it seems, fully AI-generated frames. At GDC today Nvidia announced that “neural shading support will come to DirectX preview in April, unlocking the…