The latest software and hardware charts are in from Japan and it has been an exciting week for games with the Switch family available and the newly released PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S. Both of the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft sold out of their allotted shipments and more stock is…
When I think back to my original Nintendo Game Boy, I don’t just remember a piece of gaming hardware. I remember a specific time in my life, a season, a university campus, and a particular version of myself. The Machine I was at the University of Arizona in the fall of 1989 (Go Wildcats!),…
Epic Games has announced that from today onwards the price of V-Bucks, the in-game currency of Fortnite, have been permanently reduced by twenty percent. This includes the Nintendo Switch version. To celebrate what the company calls the Fortnite Mega Drop, they have announced via their blog that they are also gifting all active players with…
We’ve been reporting plenty on the ongoing memory shortage, supposedly thanks to the AI boom, including data indicating that prices went up 30% in a week and 170% in a year. Now it seems things have gotten so bad, at least one retailer in Japan is actually placing restrictions on purchases. PC Ones announced on…
“A small love story”. The Saturn never got a full-blown Sonic outing, but it did get the excellent NiGHTS into Dreams, a 3D adventure from Sonic Team that still has plenty of fans, despite not getting a new mainline entry since 2007’s NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on Wii. If you’re like me and have to…
Now that’s worth buying a console for! Yes, friends. We’ve spent the past few days pushing and pulling at our new Switch 2s as we get to figuring out just what this baby is really capable of. And, well, it seems as though it’s capable of some quite twisted stuff. Or at least a bit…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—probably better known to the world as the Oscars folks—have drawn a firm line in the sand against the use of generative AI, changing its eligibility rules to exclude AI-generated performances and scripts. The new rules, via The Wrap, state that in acting categories, only roles “demonstrably performed…
Fallout 76’s next update launches today, alongside the new season, Appalachia Under Siege. With it comes a new hostile encounter that sees different factions or forces claim up to “40 unique locations” only to be driven out by you, the player. Instead of introducing a massive map expansion, new events, and NPCs like we saw…
Hello, last month we introduced cross-play to No Man’s Sky, and it has been extremely satisfying to see our PS4 community finally able to play with their friends on other platforms. We have seen a flurry of multiplayer activity as long-lost friends and complete strangers alike meet up to explore the universe, visit each other’s…
Becoming an agent of chaos or just enjoying the freedom of an entirely different space is all part of the open-world appeal, and the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog* is bursting with options. But we’re here to help. Check out 13 must-play open-world to get you started on your journey, including Star Wars Outlaws available starting…