In the era of speedy solid state drives, I barely remember the last time I saw a loading screen. I say ‘barely’ because it was, in fact, last night as I waited for Star Wars Zero Company to compile its shaders for a second time following a crash I encountered during the tutorial mission. Some…
Photo Modes are a rewarding way to get to grips with some essential elements of photography, while letting you more closely examine and appreciate a game’s art design and increasingly photorealistic visuals. Feature-rich Photo Modes put an entire suite of virtual lighting rigs at your fingertips, subtracting concerns about space requirements, or the patience of…
When you had to make those 24 exposures count. Gather round, kids, and I’ll tell you a tale. A tale of gaming events where you weren’t packed in like sardines, a tale of the future of the industry: Sega’s Dreamcast, and a tale of photographic limitations where you had a limited number of shots, no…
Mass Effect 5 is officially cancelled and EA’s shutting BioWare down, putting an end to decades of some of the best RPGs in gaming—and while I don’t have too much positive to say about BioWare’s later run (Veilguard was a decent action RPG with a story I couldn’t stand), much of that has to do…
Tales of Castlevania. We are back with our latest look at the Japanese physical charts from Famitsu, and two new releases have been racing for the top spot this week. Both Tales of Eternia Remastered and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse came out of the gate swinging, but it was the former that just about secured the…
Good things rarely last forever, as is the case with the iconic UK biscuit Happy Faces and now Arc Raiders’ PvE test. We knew it wasn’t going to last long as Embark announced that it would only stick around for a week, but it disappearing from the game still sucks. I loved the PvE test,…
Two familiar RPG ambitions, better equipment and a cleaner completion record, meet in one of Old School RuneScape’s most demanding solo challenges. The Corrupted Gauntlet combines preparation and combat in one solo challenge. Every veteran RPG player knows the routine. You want one upgrade, so you repeat one dungeon until its corridors start appearing in…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In September, Marvel’s Wolverine led the PS5 charts in the US, followed by EA Sports FC 27, while in the EU, EA Sports FC 27 led the PS5 charts, followed by Marvel’s Wolverine. Check out the full listings…
‘Don’t you mean Blocko Land, Bart?’. This year marks the 30-year anniversary of one of the most iconic and notable franchises in gaming, Tomb Raider. That’s three whole decades of cliff-diving, dual-wielding, switch-pulling, dinosaur-killing action, all executed at the hands of one of the most popular video game characters of all time, Ms. Lara Croft….
A redditor’s mother-in-law found a Steam Deck OLED on an Amtrak train—and ever since, the redditor has been trying to send it back to its rightful owner. Now it’s finally on its way home. Apparently, the redditor’s mother-in-law found the device several months prior, but “she had no idea what to do with it or…