Monolith Soft studio head and Xenoblade series creator, Tetsuya Takahashi, has said in a recent interview that the company is looking to focus on the Xenoblade franchise in an effort to strengthen that particular brand. However, Mr. Takahashi says that he wouldn’t mind exploring a smaller-scale project to add some variety to the teams work….
Diablo 4’s newest patch could’ve been Blizzard’s solution to an endgame that mostly consists of grinding a single boss for the best loot, but it doesn’t seem like it went far enough. Among a list of bug fixes, patch 1.3.2 brings two changes aimed at making it easier to get Diablo 4’s most powerful items,…
“We never imagined it would end like this”. A Japanese retro arcade which housed many iconic arcade machines was consumed by fire this week, destroying 10 years of hard work. The Living Bird store, located in Towada City, Aomori Prefecture, was devastated by a blaze which started in a neighbouring unit and spread through the…
More reveals coming next week. If you’ve played Vampire Survivors with a friend in local co-op, then you know how chaotic things can get. Heck, if you’ve played enough of it on your own and come up with a ridiculous screen-filling build, then you’ve seen how far you can push the limits. Well, poncle is…
Dungeon Keeper is one of my all-time favourite games, tied with Theme Hospital as Bullfrog’s most fondly remembered management sim. Yet whereas Bullfrog’s isometric cure ’em up is still fairly playable today, returning to Dungeon Keeper in 2023 is hard going. Its visuals are incredibly bleary on a modern machine, while it’s also finicky to…
“The game does NOT run entirely on the Raspberry Pi”. I was recently fortunate enough to go hands-on with the 2025 update of DOOM on the SNES, developed by Randal Linden and due to be published by Limited Run Games. When the project was first announced, Linden – who also worked on the original 1995…
Two Highly Collectible Games; Proceeds Benefit 8 Players CHICAGO, IL – December 13, 2023 – Stern Pinball, Inc. (SPI) announced the auction of two highly collectible pinball games played by Fighting Illini football players during the team’s 2023 season as part of the NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) program. A Foo Fighters Premium and Venom Premium…
And the book’s still open. 25 years ago today, 11th August, Mario jumped into a whole new dimension. Today marks the anniversary of the N64 turn-based RPG, Paper Mario — which is a pretty big deal, because that means the entire series is also celebrating its quarter-century anniversary. Feeling old yet? Read the full article…
In July this year, Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he simultaneously announced an absolutely brutal round of layoffs. Several studios were closed outright, games were cancelled, and almost everything in Microsoft’s portfolio was touched in some way, with the aftershocks still coming. One of the developers heavily affected was…
Hey everyone! Street Fighter V is here, and we wanted to make sure that everyone starts off on the right foot. With a bit of patience, practice and discipline you’ll be well on your way to becoming an online warrior! Here are a few tips to get folks started, from our friends Mike Ross and…