Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for…
Donkey Kong is an iconic Nintendo character with a storied history, transforming from villain to hero over the course of his existence. Though he made his menacing debut in arcades, Donkey Kong has since become a goofy character prime for comedic relief, so much so that Seth Rogen recently voiced DK in the Super Mario…
The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…
Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios. This comes a few months after the studio responsible for Tales of Kenzera: Zau put its team on notice for redundancy. “We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity…
From low-poly animator and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie artist suitNtie. A new N64-inspired adventure has just been announced for PC that will let players become a travelling salesman and embark on a cozy adventure across several towns to build their fledgling business. Merchant 64 is the work of the low-poly animator suitNtie, who recently…
In a press Q&A ahead of today’s Xbox developer direct, id Software creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton expanded on some of the gameplay changes coming to Doom: The Dark Ages. In particular, they outlined how some of the criticisms of 2020’s Doom Eternal led the team to look for inspiration in…
We’re fast approaching five years since the launch of Doom Eternal, and while Doom: The Dark Ages is shaping up to be a more stripped-back attempt at the Doom formula with its medieval aesthetic, the Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements feel straight out of the future. If you want to run this pulpy shooter…
Final Fantasy 14’s community has been frayed at the edges recently, as widespread awareness of a modding tool that allows stalkers—an issue FF14 has had for a while—to have access to every alternate character on their target’s account. Dawntrail received a more powerful blacklisting system to help fight stalking behaviour, but the mod actually takes…
One of the most unique video game experiences ever crafted. This review was originally published in April 2009. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online SNES library. Every so often a game comes along that makes you take your thumb off the fire button and…
“Your Sega Dreamcast can now become an AI-driven sentient being”. When Sega launched Dreamcast in North America, it came up with a memorable slogan for its advertising campaign: “It’s thinking.” Intended to illustrate the technological leap the console was making over the PS1 and N64, the campaign suggested that Dreamcast was so powerful it was…