Try it out before launch. NetEase Games is promoting its upcoming action platformer Rusty Rabbit with a brand new demo for Nintendo Switch. This demo allows you to play through the beginning of Stamp’s adventure, with save data carrying over to the full release when it launches on 17th April 2025. Here’s a bit more…
Game engine maker Unity has announced that CEO John Riccitiello will retire from his prominent positions at the company. Effective immediately, Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. In short, Unity’s unpopular and controversial CEO is out. Which makes sense, given that Riccitiello is…
I became a serious game development hobbyist when I was a kid and I’ve worked as a professional game developer for the past 18 years. I’m now the Chief Technology Officer at Crystal Dynamics, where I am working with a brilliant and passionate development team on Marvel’s Avengers. Throughout my life, there has been little…
Nintendo is investigating. Plenty of readers (and beyond) have been enjoying the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream ‘Welcome Version’ demo over the past 24 hours. But for some diving in this morning, they’ve been greeted by a rather unpleasant surprise: a crash. It turns out that Nintendo has identified a bug with the demo, which…
Category: Games April 24, 2025 How Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ Two-Lane Battle System Lets You Relive the Glory Days of the Arcade Yasuyuki Oda, Chief Producer, SNK Summary SNK showcases the new Two-Lane Battle system in the latest entry of their legendary fighting game series, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, available now…
As promised, Nintendo has released the free demo of Pikmin 3 Deluxe. You’ll be able to transfer your save data over to the full game when it releases on October 30th. In the meantime, if you’re new to the game, Nintendo has released a Japanese “Introduction” trailer to their YouTube channel. You can see it…
New Year, same game backlog. Only, what if we made it even worse? Forget finally returning to The Witcher 3 or Persona 5, there are weird indie games to play. They’re cheap. They’re short. They’ll probably run on your Steam Deck (and maybe even your Windows 7 PC). They just might surprise you with ambition…
Every time Gloomwood goes on sale I check to see if it’s received its long-promised controller support. For years the answer has been “no” or “not yet”, and believe me, on most normal days there’s a new thread in the Gloomwood Steam forums asking about it. But as of today, the answer is “yes”. That’s…
The latest TikTok trend involves breaking it down to a (very crisp) line read from Genshin Impact. Trying to apply structure to the meaningless is both humanity’s greatest quality and the fastest path to the abyss of thought (thanks, Polygon). The line in question is “Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale”, as read by Ray Chase. He’s…
The fun thing about videogame patches—and I’m using “fun” in the definitely-ironic sense here—is that sometimes they’ll cause new, interesting, and entirely unanticipated problems: Fix this, break that, it’s the circle of life. Such is the case with a recent update to Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening, which saw several PvE areas of the Deep…