These days, it’s rare to come across a game that feels bad to play. We’ve reached a point where you can hop into a new game in any established genre and largely be off on your merry way. But then I played Crimson Desert, which sees you fumbling across the keyboard trying to remember the…
Once, when I was in China, a Danish colleague of mine got invited by a business-type to attend some kind of fancy high-powered conference. Thinking it’d be a novel experience at least, she agreed, only to find herself on-stage, in a suit: a deer in headlights presented to shareholders as an exec from a foreign…
A website has also been launched. The Japanese developer and publisher Edia has revealed that it is now working on a revival project based on Telenet Japan’s Celtic-inspired RPG series Tenshi no Uta (thanks Gosokkyu!). Tenshi no Uta (sometimes translated to “Song of the Angel” or “Angel’s Poem”) was one of the launch titles for…
Hello there! It feels awesome to be on PlayStation.Blog with some great news! This time we want to tell you about She Wants Me Dead on PS4 — an unforgiving rhythm game with an evil cat that really, really wants to kill you. On the beat. To a dance song that will probobly dominate the…
Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer (and, recently, creative director) has retired from Wizards of the Coast after 28 years at the company—as announced on his Bluesky profile late last week: “Today I retire from Wizards after 28 years,” Perkins writes. “With D&D’s 50th anniversary wrapping up and the revised rulebooks doing gangbusters, this is…
Ready for day one. Nintendo has released a day one update for Donkey Kong Bananza, bringing the game to Version 1.1.0 and introducing some predictable, but welcome additions and improvements (thanks, Nintendo Everything). The update should automatically download when you receive your game then, but if in doubt, you can always manually check for any…
Also served as director on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. We have just learned that Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden franchise and director/scenario writer on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, has sadly passed away due to complications with an ongoing illness. The news comes via Rabbit & Bear Studios, the development team responsible for Hundred Heroes…
First reported by Ars Technica, the “big cheese” of online search appears to have really curdled things, and in the heart of America’s dairyland, no less. An ad for Google’s Gemini AI that played in Wisconsin during the Super Bowl was first shown online last week with a “hallucination”—that is to say, a bald-faced lie—visible…
The trailer for Lost Soul Aside shown at Sony’s State of Play showcase really buries the lede. A girl dreams about an invasion of monsters, but you’re the chosen one and official only hope, blah blah blah. Your best friend is a floating crystal dragon head who sounds like he’s doing a Liam Neeson impersonation,…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, first encountered PC…