Hideo Kojima is 'tired' while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he'll be able to keep making games: 'Every day feels like I'm racing against the clock'

Hideo Kojima is ‘tired’ while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep making games: ‘Every day feels like I’m racing against the clock’

Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima left the office after dark one night last week, tweeting just one word on the way out: “Tired.” After a long and influential career in the industry stretching back to the mid-1980s, he’s starting to wonder how much time he really has left. Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2, doesn’t…

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Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro review

Having already launched one generation of chipsets on its Socket AM5 platform, AMD faces an uphill struggle in selling 800-series chipset motherboards when older, cheaper options are perfectly capable of running CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. However, it arguably has an easier task than Intel given the low sales figures of its Core…

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Marvel Rivals game director says it’ll be getting a new hero every month and a half, which hopefully isn’t a display of classical hubris

Marvel Rivals landed with a wide roster, boasting 33 heroes when it launched on December 5. Just over a month later, the hero shooter’s received two additions to its lineup, thanks to the arrival of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman with the advent of Season 1. NetEase has set an impressive pace—and according to game…

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Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review

It’s been a somewhat bizarre launch for Intel with its Core Ultra desktop processors crashing and burning (thankfully not physically this time) in reviews and sales figures are understandably poor, especially when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which even outsold all of AMD’s other Ryzen 9000 CPUs combined. It’s only because of a long…

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