It had been a long time coming, so when the MidBoss team decided to form a game studio and asked me to be the Director and Lead Artist, things just kind of slid into place. We had just finished running the first of what became the annual GaymerX convention, so the words “make your own…
I’m getting close to wrapping up my Baldur’s Gate 3 honour mode playthrough—all I’ve got to do is not beef it on the last couple of deadly fights and I’m there. In the interest of survival, I’ve been skipping a couple of key story beats. I have a cosy setup that works, and I can’t…
Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 5, is suing PlayerAuctions, a Chinese-owned site known for facilitating the trading and selling of player accounts and digital currencies in online games. That’s as per a report by Polygon late last week, which states that Take-Two is alleging “the website PlayerAuctions.com offers a vast online marketplace containing…
When it was first announced that Hitman: World of Assassination developer IO Interactive was taking on the James Bond franchise with 007: First Light, it sounded like the perfect match of license and studio. The Hitman games focus on stealth, cunning, planning, and improvisation — a perfect fit for the legendary spy. I recently went…
The next Battlefield game has been in an early playtest for a while now, with EA deciding to take a new angle on community testing by introducing its Battlefield Labs initiative, a new way for players to test out potential features for the upcoming game. The only problem being that, despite an NDA, participants have…
A young king’s work is never done. Return to the enchanting world of Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom to join Evan on a new quest in the upcoming Tale of a Timeless Tome DLC! This brand-new chapter of the captivating RPG adventure includes new characters, missions and battle content to continue building your kingdom….
Only alchemy could make a title that long. The catchily-titled Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is set to land on Switch next week on 21st March, but ahead of that, Koei Tecmo has revealed a new gameplay trailer and the promise of an upcoming free demo. We’ll start with that…
A “Do’h!” moment for a DDoS protection company A security outfit that prides itself on DoS and DDoS attack protection and mitigation was itself the victim of a DDoS attack late last week and over the weekend. Staminus Communications first disclosed the attack to the public last Thursday in a Twitter post, calling it a…
I like a 4K 32-inch OLED, I do. And MSI’s models have offered one of the most affordable options to achieve that 4K OLED experience. So, the good news is that MSI has updated its 32-inch 4K OLED offering with Samsung’s latest panel tech. So, it’s brighter and mostly fixes at least one weakness of…
In a retro market typically dominated by high concept companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by a group of gaming enthusiasts, although its actual…