“I have my share of responsibility”. Former Ubisoft designer and creator of Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil Michel Ancel has lifted the lid on part of Beyond Good & Evil 2‘s troubled development. In an interview with French outlet Superpouvoir (via VGC), the ex-Ubisoft employee, who left in 2020 to work at a wildlife…
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Multiple positions available for “popular game titles”. Nintendo subsidiary Intelligent Systems — best known for developing the Fire Emblem, Paper Mario, and WarioWare series’ — is currently hiring. Spotted by reader Leaf Garrison, the job is open for (via Google translate) “developing popular game titles” and has been open since 8th November 2024. Monthly salaries…
It turns out that Geralt of Rivia, everyone’s favorite monster-hunter-for-fire, may not be in The Witcher 4 after all. Then again, he may be—the truth is, nobody outside of a presumably select few at CD Projekt really knows, and that includes voice actor Doug Cockle, who says he got “slapped” by the studio after revealing…
It’s… the same. We are barrelling towards the release date of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD on 16th January 2025 and, with a little over a month to go, Nintendo has revealed the game’s opening cutscene in all of its remastered glory. Now, yes, if you played the original on Wii back in 2010, then…
In the classic situation comedy Gilligan’s Island, which deals with seven colorful castaways stranded on an island, there are two versions of the theme song. In the first version, five of the castaways are named, while two of them are filed away under the phrase “and the rest”. The actors playing The Professor and…
Guess who’s back. After a quick look at the latest UK boxed software charts? Well, you’ve come to the right place. With Black Friday sales fizzling out, things have mostly returned to normal this week. The big three of EA Sports FC 25, Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 assume their positions…
Valve added a competitive mode to Deadlock back in October. This drastically improved matchmaking by sorting everyone into 11 ranks, which were more in keeping with players’ skill level, but now there’s another way to raise your blood pressure. As the December 6 patch notes reveal, Valve has introduced an “extra competitive option” for players…
Aw, brick… LEGO Fortnite is expanding and changing things up — later this week, LEGO Fortnite Brick Life will be arriving on 12th December 2024. A brand new game mode to go alongside LEGO Fortnite — which is being retitled to LEGO Fortnite Odyssey — Brick Life is a social sim where 32 players can…
The first GPU company to offer it was Nvidia in 2022, followed by AMD one year later, and now Intel has joined in the fun. I am, of course, talking about frame generation and while none of the systems are perfect, they all share the same issue: increased input latency. However, researchers at Intel have…