One of the best things I did in a game this year was spend ten minutes riding an oxcart from one city to another in Dragon’s Dogma 2 because its fast travel system is so limited (intentionally) as to functionally not exist. The second best thing was turning off the wayfinding settings, quest log, and…
Category: Xbox Partner Preview Xbox Partner Preview: Every Announcement and Trailer From Our Third-Party Partners Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published October 25, 2023 Thank you for joining us earlier today for our inaugural broadcast event, Xbox Partner Preview! This show focused on many of our wonderful third-party partners like Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Remedy…
Hello everyone, I’m Yonghe Wang – Creative Director at Pollard Studios and today I am very excited to announce on behalf of my team and our publisher Wired Productions that Karma: The Dark World will be launching on PlayStation 5 on March 27. The game will also support PS5 Pro enhancements. To celebrate, we thought…
The FromSoftware aesthetic is best summed up by the famous quote from Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki. When presented with an early, gross and gribbly design for the Undead Dragon in Dark Souls, Miyazaki returned it with the comment that it should be more dignified, saying, “Can’t you instead try to convey the deep sorrow…
The Marathon server slam is now a day underway and seems to be doing reasonably well. Some players love it, some are a little iffy, and of course there are complaints—not so much about the servers, which seem to be holding up well enough, but more basic elements of the game itself. In an update,…
Over the years, games on the Nintendo Switch eShop have sold for as little as a penny, but now it would seem Nintendo has a new rule in place that stops any digital game from being listed for less than $1.99. In the past, quite often you’d see some of the chart being dominated by…
Not starring Joe Musashi. Shinorubi feels like a game that came about by providing prompts to an AI specialising in video game building (coming soon, no doubt), feeding it information on various historical works of a particular nature, and then publishing whatever it spat out. That might sound mean to the humans that created it,…
The course of history has a habit of plucking individuals from its stream and making them, by complex processes, tribunes of a class—figureheads onto which the demands of an era are projected and through whom they find voice. Martin Luther, Maximilien Robespierre, Karl Marx: these are less individuals than they are avatars of their epochs….
This is an interview done by Galloping Ghost’s superstar and International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee Pete Hahn with World Champion Galaxian player, David Lyne. Pete Hahn: First of all, congrats again on your awesome achievement! How long was your entire entire 2 million+ point run, and how did you maintain concentration for such…
If you want to be a real go-getter in Miraland, you’re going to want to make sure you get all of Professor Aventura’s quiz answers correct. You’ll run into this intrepid academic all over the first zone of Infinity Nikki and he’s always armed with a tricky question about the details of a nearby point…