Never underestimate the power of PlayStation. Thirty years ago today, Sony launched the first PlayStation – and changed things in the world of gaming forever. Spawned from the ill-fated SNES Play Station project, the 32-bit console hit Japanese stores on December 3rd, 1994 – hot on the heels of its closest rival, the Sega Saturn….
On Wednesdays we wear pink. After 105+ minutes of gameplay and breakdowns, we have finally arrived at the launch week for Masahiro Sakurai’s latest joint, Kirby Air Riders. The game is mere hours away from boosting onto Switch 2 on 20th November (that’s tomorrow!), and that means that it’s time to take a look at…
Oleksandr Zinchenko is a Ukrainian footballer that currently plays for Arsenal in the English Premier League and the Ukrainian national side. The full-back and midfielder is still only 27 years old but has already had a storied career, winning the Premier League four times with previous club Manchester City alongside the FA cup and another…
Monster Hunter Wilds was the big final premiere at the 2023 Game Awards, with the above trailer confirming a 2025 release date. That’s a while off, and it’ll also be a while before we get more details about the Monster Hunter World follow-up: series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto said on-stage that Capcom won’t show any more…
An adventure with cat-titude. When playing through Little Kitty, Big City, it’s difficult to avoid drawing comparisons with Untitled Goose Game. Both see you play as a cute, mischievous animal, and both have you tackle a series of emergent tasks that often come at the expense of the poor humans that inhabit the surrounding area….
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person mystery game and it’s coming to PS4 on July 14th. We thought it might be fun to introduce the game by sharing a few secrets behind the game’s development process. 1.) Why We Chose This Particular Title The game is a weird fiction story, and weird fiction…
When I want to run an adventure about unknowable horrors, 1930s investigators in over their heads, ancient books that send readers insane, and all that squirming Lovecraftian goodness, there’s one TTRPG I reach for every time: Trail of Cthulhu. Its clever system puts the emphasis on solving mysteries, giving players all sorts of tools to…
“I felt this anger against the entire industry. You’re all just making the same old shit”. “What are you talking about? Are you trying to insinuate that I flooded a hotel room? That’s outrageous!” bellows Hifumi Kouno, in pseudo-offence that gives way to raucous laughter which infects everyone in the room. We’re at the Nude…
Square Enix has clearly been carefully watching how the recent influx of karting games have been performing from a sales point of view as they have recently trademarked Chocobo Grand Prix. Trademarks were made for “Chocobo GP” and “Chocobo Grand Prix” on Tuesday, 1st December. As news publication Gematsu reports, these new trademarks could be…
You have to wonder whether the creators of Lonestar were cursing their luck last November, when turn-based, space duel roguelike Cobalt Core was released. Lonestar, you see, is a turn-based, space duel roguelike, and if the two games don’t exactly look like twins, they could certainly be first cousins. Both centre on nose-to-nose spaceship battles…