The starting village is a classic fantasy RPG cliché. From Hommlet in The Temple of Elemental Evil to Riverwood in Skyrim, it’s no surprise when we start our adventuring career dealing with small problems in a small town. Icewind Dale, the D&D game Black Isle developed in 2000, was no exception, beginning in the frozen…
Square Enix has debuted a full trailer for Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming expansion Dawntrail at Final Fantasy Fan Festival 2024. The trailer shows off a look at the new world continent and its inhabitants interacting with a diverse lineup of FF14 classics. The trailer is dominated by the generic player-stand-in Adventurer journeying towards the new…
“We tried our very best to avoid being in this position”. Bossa Studios, the UK team behind the Surgeon Simulator series, has been forced to lay off around one-third of its staff at the end of 2023. Co-founder Henrique Olifiers told GamesIndustry.biz it was the result of a “perfect storm of events” and the team…
If only. We’ve seen some impressive fan-made ports of classic games for retro systems recently, but a recent video which appears to show Elden Ring running on the Nintendo 3DS takes things to the next level – but it’s sadly not real. As reported by TheGamer, Reddit user F*ckriotgames7 shared footage of FromSoftware’s game running…
“Now I own a Nintendo PlayStation!”. We all know that the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a fusion of the SNES with a CD-ROM drive, and that Sony actually got as far as creating a working prototype, which resurfaced a few years ago. However, YouTube modder James Channel has taken this concept to the…
Final Fantasy 14‘s annual fan event was in full swing yesterday, and the announcements of new features—and trailers—from the Dawntrail expansion were coming pretty fast. The new Pictomancer was on display, the mystical painter joining FF14 as a magical ranged damage job. The intelligence-based Pictomancer isn’t just pure damage, however, and has some abilities that…
We seriously dug 2022’s headbanging shooter Metal: Hellsinger, and that rhythm based FPS just got some love from its boomer shooter brethren by way of a free DLC featuring nine tracks from Andrew Hulshult’s excellent Dusk soundtrack. A musical DLC is a much bigger deal than it might sound given Metal: Hellsinger’s rhythm-based gameplay. Similar…
“I wrote the entire design, but the implementation was catastrophic”. The ‘games of the world’ are an engrossing subject, specifically when you look past the dominant geographical triumvirate of America, Japan, and Europe (actually a collection of distinct territories, unfairly homogenised into a single label). My first professional article was in GamesTM #27 covering the…
“Here’s Toby!”. In 2023, the names ‘Charlie Brooker‘ and ‘CeX‘ will perhaps prompt two very different emotions from many people. The former is the acclaimed English presenter, author, producer and satirist who created the wonderfully dark and thought-provoking sci-fi drama series Black Mirror, while the latter is an international second-hand retailer which specialises in buying-in…
Our favourite eShop games in from December! Happy New Year lovely readers! It’s 2024, and with another fantastic year of Switch (and maybe Switch 2?) gaming ahead of us, we need to stop, think, and have one last look back at 2023 with eShop Selects this month! December is usually a quiet month for game…