It’s no secret that the big-budget videogame industry is in a baffling state at the moment—despite games being a larger industry than movies and music combined, studios keep getting shut down, people keep getting laid off, projects keep getting cancelled. Games are both one of the most lucrative entertainment products out there and seemingly incapable…
Platinum Games has today released a fresh new trailer for The Wonderful 101: Remastered which arrives on the Nintendo Switch platform next month. This enhanced version of the Wii U original features improved visuals, framerate, and loading times. The Wonderful 101: Remastered is out on 19th May in North America and the 22nd May in…
You know when you’re playing The Sims and you’re directing your little person to make improvements to their house or cook a meal or try on some new clothes? Then a neighbor abruptly appears at the front door and suddenly your Sim has a tantrum because they’re a little hungry or sleepy? It’s cute stuff….
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was not the series’ finest hour, but one aspect of the sequel that has gone down well with players is its experiments with matchmaking. For years, players have complained about the effects of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM), which is intended to level the playing field by sorting players into groups…
Never one to be short of hyperbole, at a press Q&A with the Nvidia CEO of course talk of the new RTX Spark SoC was on the menu. The Nvidia RTX Spark (AKA N1X) is a chip built in partnership with MediaTek, combining a custom Arm core (though quite how custom it is, I’m not…
Even the smartest of boffins can trip up sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened after a member of Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive internal data after misconfiguring a link. Wiz, a cloud security company that routinely looks for vulnerabilities or exposures of cloud-hosted data detailed the exposure on its blog (via…
This week’s big news was the reveal and simultaneous release of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, a remaster-slash-remake of the 2006 classic that’s immediately shot to the top of the Steam charts. The remake was a co-production between Bethesda and Virtuos, and prior to the official announcement had been one of the worst-kept secrets of…
Tanks for the memories. Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives series is back with another cabinet classic on Switch 2. I got to check out Jet Ski racer Aqua Jet back in August, which was a lovingly crafted port. This time I’m revisiting the destructive tank combat of Namco’s Tokyo Wars, which served as inspiration for The…
Sterling Archer: secret agent turned private investigator turned… rock star? That’s right, this Thursday everyone’s favorite spy from “Archer,” the hit animated series on FXX, makes his long-awaited Rock Band debut as part of our March content update for Rock Band 4. Rock Band 4 | PlayStation.com “That’s awesome! But why Archer?” you may ask….
Better late than never. One of our biggest gripes with Antonblast on the Switch was its performance at launch. In our review, we noted that slowdown during more chaotic moments of gameplay can “cheapen the experience enough to be disappointing”, which isn’t really ideal for a 2D platformer in which speed is a key factor….