Tips for Surviving The Persistence, Coming to PS VR Tomorrow
Hi there everyone! I’m here to help you stay alive during your time playing The Persistence. In case you missed our previous blog post, The Persistence is a brutal VR sci-fi stealth-horror roguelike, and it’s coming exclusively to PS VR tomorrow. You are Chief Security Officer Zimri Eder, one of the last surviving members of…
Tetris 1200 (AGA) – The 1988 Arcade version of Tetris for the Commodore Amiga [1.02 UPDATE]
If you remember the 1980’s hit game of Tetris then you’ll be pleased to know that as of this morning, we have been informed that JOTD has released an update to the 1988 Arcade version of Tetris for the Commodore Amiga 1200. As in the words of the creator “A transcode of Atari Tetris arcade…
The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, ‘But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3’
Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio’s upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive…
Marathon day two check-in: Into the Outpost, an overpowered shotgun, and why I love doors
Welcome back runners. Are we calling each other runners? Honestly, let’s not. What’s up people playing Marathon. I’ve sunk 10 hours into this dang extraction shooter so far and the deeper I dig this hole, the more I’m into it. I’m still having a blast with PvP, especially when playing trios. During the day, when…
World of Warcraft: Midnight will introduce a ‘Prey’ system, and by jove, I think Blizzard might be close to fixing the MMO’s open-world difficulty problem
World of Warcraft: Midnight’s coming—the hour, nearly upon us—and while player housing is the marquee feature, I’m actually super hyped about another system Blizzard’s cooking up, as well, dubbed “Prey”, revealed this year at Gamescom 2025. We’ve all been there. You need to do your dailies. You log on. You start flying around, and a…
Microsoft: ActiBlizz Acquisition Gives Xbox A Chance To Be A “Good Publisher” On All Platforms
“We’re excited about that acquisition closing”. Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there’s been a lot of debate about Xbox published titles on other platforms, so what’s the latest? Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has told Bloomberg this week how he feels Xbox has a better chance of being a “good publisher” for all platforms (including…
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st August)
Poké Preparations. The weekend is here, and all of us are hungry for a spot of gaming. It was a reasonably quiet week in the world of Nintendo this time. We finally got a release date for ‘Part 1’ of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass and our first look at ‘Part 2’, Nintendo announced Super…
Japanese Charts: Switch 2 And Mario Kart World Continue To Obliterate The Competition
Even Pokémon can’t keep up. The latest Japanese charts data is in from Famitsu, and surprising no one, Mario Kart World is once again at the top of the pile, shifting another 103,861 units. Not even the combined sales of Pokémon Legends: Z-A across Switch and Switch 2 can keep up, though it’s safe to…
Arc Raiders is looking to nerf the Trigger Nade among other items, but we’re not sure whether it’ll only be weaker against players, not Arcs
I’m a good little raider. I go into an Arc Raiders match, collect my loot, kill a couple of arcs, and help anyone who needs it before extracting back to Speranza and Scrappy. But not everyone is, a fact that I have found out the hard way, time and time again. Whether I get extraction…