AI: The Somnium Files launches today! We’re celebrating the global release here at PlayStation.Blog with an exclusive interview with the assistant director, Akira Okada. In this new interview, you’ll see why Okada is the brains behind all the challenges and puzzles you face in the game’s Somnium and multi-branching paths. Play VideoPlay Video Ari Advincula:…
It’s the 15th anniversary of MachineGames, the Swedish developer that most recently gave us the hit action adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The studio announced a free New Game+ update for its big Indy game yesterday to celebrate its birthday, but today it hinted at something more interesting for the future. “Thank you…
I didn’t play Dragon Quest 7 when it first appeared on Sony’s PlayStation back in 2000. It was an expensive import RPG (even in its translated US form) in my part of the world, and as I already had plenty of those clogging up my shelves I was happy to leave it alone. By the…
Feast your eyes. After years of waiting for news of a remaster, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is finally here. Square Enix’s hotly anticipated tactical RPG has marched onto Switch and Switch 2 today, and it’s getting launched in style thanks to some rather swanky new art. The first piece comes from Akihiko Yoshida…
Marvelous Games has announced that Heroland, from the Director behind Mother 3, will be releasing on January 31 in Europe on Nintendo Switch. You’ll be able to grab this one both digitally and physically. Heroland has already been out in the US a little while so those on the other side of the pond don’t…
The UK‘s GfK Top 10 physical charts have been released, and it was another good one for EA’s FIFA ’21. Hot on the game’s heels, however, are 5 Nintendo Switch games. This includes Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which maintained its #2 spot, and the Switch version of Minecraft. The full chart data is down below….
Nintendo‘s war against copyright infringement, hacking and piracy continues, and the company has begun the new year with some good news. Nintendo has won an injunction against Team-Xecuter, a hacking group. Team-Xecuter released a Switch mod in early 2018 that enabled pirated games to be loaded into the console’s hardware. The games could be loaded…
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is out now, and it costs $50 ($67 CAD in my country!) for the standard edition of the game—a hefty price tag for an update of a 20-year-old RPG. But if you want to give Bethesda even more of your money, there’s also a deluxe edition available for $10…
At the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, we just revealed the world premiere of Epoch Reset (previously Chronellium), a time-bending, 2.5D anime adventure from the same publisher as wholesome origami adventure Hirogami and biopunk battler Sonokuni. This time they’re taking the path of the intelligentsia with an immersive, sci-fi narrative adventure with time travel at…
Better late than never. Remember SOMA? The survival horror game that initially launched back in September 2015? Well, it’s finally coming to the Nintendo Switch thanks to a collaboration between Frictional Games and Abylight Studios. The debut trailer has just launched and, we’ll be honest, it looks a little rough around the edges. It’s natural…