In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…
You know how Steam is famously strict about certifying new updates? No? I’ve just been handed a note, apparently Steam doesn’t give a hoot and the only explanation for Square Enix being so tardy with updates for the PC version of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (and the mobile versions too) is that they forgot…
Ubisoft announced sweeping changes to its business today, confirming more layoffs, major internal restructuring, and the cancelation of seven projects including Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time. At the same time it renewed its pledge to double down on generative AI. In a document released today Ubisoft describes its “radically new value-creation” business model,…
Today, The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo shared more information regarding the recently discovered Gigantamax Snorlax, Evolutions of Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble, and the Legendary Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta, for the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield video games, available now exclusively on the Nintendo Switch system. The Pokémon Company International also unveiled Sword & Shield,…
After a total wait even longer than his prison sentence and being convicted in March, former software developer Davis Lu has finally been sentenced for a malware kill switch scheme he deployed in 2019. Lu will have to serve four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. It’s the end to a…
The Japanese reveal tweet suggests so… Last week’s surprise Nintendo Direct might not have been the showcase of wall-to-wall bangers that we had hoped for, but it still held its fair share of surprises — perhaps the biggest of which was Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Sure, it had been rumoured for years, but we…
“That’s why we had Mr Motivator on GamesMaster”. Fresh on the heels of the announcement that Dominik Diamond is holding a special event featuring songs based on famous video games, the former GamesMaster host has been revealed as one of the many star attendees at this year’s PLAY Expo in Blackpool, UK. “He’ll be taking…
Fixes for vulnerabilities in 48 different products Oracle today rolled out a Critical Patch Update for the month of January 2015, which contains fixes for 167 vulnerabilities found in hundreds of the company’s products. The most severe of these received a score of 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), the highest score available…
Hands-on with Limited Run’s new port and Retro-Bit’s rumble pad. When you talk about unbelievable programming achievements, the 1995 SNES port of DOOM is right up there. id Software’s FPS changed everything when it arrived on PC in 1993, and it was considered the benchmark release for many of the next-gen platforms which launched around…
Too hot to handle If you purchased a Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, or Surface Pro 3 model before March 2015, be aware that you might have a faulty power cord. Microsoft is expected to announce a voluntary recall this Friday with an offer to replace affected power cords for free. News of the recall…