Earthlock: Festival of Magic is a turn-based RPG that’s launching January 27 on PS4. While its foundations lie in the classic stylings of the genre, it’s been built to take advantage of modern trends and feel contemporary. Lead artist Fredrik Dahl from Snowcastle Games walked us through the juxtaposition of the Revered and the New…
We got a very quick glimpse at another look at No More Heroes 3 when Suda51 made a quick cameo on yesterday’s Devolver Direct. It was only a couple of seconds but the indie legend cropped up on the end credits, thumbs up, with the game playing on the screen behind him. We haven’t heard…
The Internet Archive has survived another legal battle in its seemingly endless war to defend digital preservation in the face of copyright law. A settlement was filed on Monday in a lawsuit between music record labels and the Internet Archive, which the labels alleged committed copyright infringement with its “Great 78 Project” music preservation program….
One of the most amazing things about modern games is that if you can think of a game you want to play, it probably exists somewhere. Yet while this is great for players like me, I can understand why it might be disheartening if you’re a developer trying to stand out. One indie developer recently…
Lag. We all know it, and we’ve all felt the frustration that it wreaks, whether you’re caught in a crunchy video call or watching a pal haplessly teleport around the map in Arc Raiders. However, it’s now being used as an unlikely piece of evidence in another bizarre tale of alleged corporate espionage. Amazon began…
Get a look at this! If you got a brand new Switch game for Christmas and it included a game cartridge inside of it, you’re apparently doing better than some others out there… As highlighted by IGN, multiple Switch users on social media and Reddit are claiming they’ve received cases with “googly eyes” inside instead…
The US and China are forever accusing each other of cyberattacks, but this one might be more significant than the rest—as China says the US is behind a series of attacks on its National Time Service Center. And while the idea of the US waging war on time itself might seem amusing, China sees the…
Missing Link. There’s no denying that Mario Kart World packs a pretty impressive roster of racers (come on, 50 characters, plus costumes ain’t bad), but we’d be foolish if we didn’t pour one out for the familiar faces that were lost along the way. We’re talking, of course, about the Koopalings wider Nintendo characters that…
Smash Ultimate… Ultimate? The Super Smash Bros. franchise has come a long way since the original launched 25 years ago in 1999. Yes, you read that right — the original Super Smash Bros. is 25 years old tomorrow, 21st January. If we look at the character roster for a start, we began with a humble…
A second chapter. Well, it looks like Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is absolutely happening, as a teaser that appears at the end of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter has been doing the rounds online. Shared on Reddit and reported on by Push Square (via Gematsu), the teaser is hidden within the upcoming…