Console price remains unchanged for now. Nintendo’s president, Shuntaro Furukawa, has stated that price changes for the Switch 2 may occur in the future depending on how the current tariff situation shakes out. Speaking to investors (via Yahoo News, translated by Genki), Furukawa said that the focus for now is to “quickly popularise” the Switch…
In December, Wizards of the Coast committed to not using AI art in Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, saying it requires its artists, writers, and other creative contributors “to refrain from using AI generative tools” to create its products. Despite that, MtG fans are accusing the company of using AI to create the…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. If you’re reading this website, you almost certainly use Steam. In fact, I’ll go one further: you probably use it…
BEFORE WE GET STARTED: There is a Yo-Kai will a butt, for a face. http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104392/ben-assfleck Yes, you read that right. Remember that episode of “South Park” where Trey Parker and Matt Stone make fun of Ben Affleck and Cartman calls him Ben Assfleck? Something like that. For reasons like this and thanks to a…
“I feel like I made an adventure game starring Hugh Hefner”. The award-winning designer Brenda Romero has a piece of advice for developers wishing to make great games: “Look at whatever company you want to work for and see what their Metacritic rating is.” If the Metacritic score is 85 or higher, “go join that…
Where Winds Meet has a pretty intricate character creator to play around with, but with great customization options comes great responsibility to not make Shrek. Alas, this mighty responsibility has been ignored yet again, with more character codes for Shrek out there than my eyeballs can handle. Shrek aside, apart from one nightmare fuel entry,…
Samsung has divulged some updates on its next generation memory products—including GDDR7 memory—at its annual Memory Tech Day in San Jose. Alongside GDDR7, Samsung announced its Shinebolt HBM3E memory, which is being developed for upcoming AI and compute GPUs. GDDR7 memory has been in development for some time. It’s set to appear in next generation…
I’ll be honest, I never really understood all the ardour for The Crew, but that’s no criticism. There are plenty of games (hello, Mafia 3) that I love to the absolute bafflement of my friends and loved ones, and I’d be very sad if they got taken away. So even if I don’t know what…
Storied game designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary. “11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while,”…
Hello, fellow explorers! It’s been a while but, finally, I’m happy to say that thanks to our friends at Rising Star Games, the western release of La-Mulana EX on PS Vita is right around the corner! The game is already out in Japan and the response from Japanese fans has been overwhelming, so I hope…