“He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game […] and they all crashed.”. In a new interview with PlayStationInside, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida has shared a story, in which he claims to have “partly saved” the original Gran Turismo from failure by convincing its developers to tone down the handling of the…
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has addressed the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign, stating that end-of-life support for old online games ‘a far reaching issue’ that the publisher is ‘working on’ but that ‘nothing is eternal’ when it comes to videogame services. Guillemot was asked about Stop Killing Games—which advocates for increased regulations to prevent…
“7.4% the volume of an original Wii console”. If you’re the kind of person who always seems to have painfully limited storage space under your TV, then Wii must have come as a breath of fresh air when it launched back in the mid-2000s. Unlike the Xbox 360 and PS3, Nintendo’s console was compact, sleek…
According to a detailed post on X, Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPU will be getting over double the cores of its existing Arrow Lake chips. The top Core Ultra 9 model allegedly packs a staggering 52 cores. But it’s arguably the mid-range Ultra 5 that’s most interesting given it boasts more cores in every…
Now it’s less than a month away. Gosh, time really flies, huh? It’s now been one whole year since Nintendo – specifically president Shuntaro Furukawa – publically acknowledged the Switch 2 (thanks, Stealth40k). Yes, back on 7th May 2024, Furukawa took to Nintendo’s official social pages and stated that the company would “make an announcement…
Who wanted New Kids on the Block: The Official Video Game back in the day? As long as video games have been around, we’ve had unreleased titles—and the NES has its fair share of those, as The Video Game History Foundation’s recent GDC 2025 exhibition attests. The VGHF has a history of unearthing and highlighting…
“There were many points that made me think ‘Wow, that’s amazing’”. Final Fantasy XIV director and Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida, commonly referred to as Yoshi-P, has been heaping praise on Nintendo lately. And in an interview with Famitsu, where he talks about anime and his love of Super Mario Bros. 3, he’s particularly…
Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and the driving force behind much of the company’s unique philosophy, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev, a channel that’s more business-focused than games but, hey, this is Gaben. The full interview is yet to surface but a few shorts from the conversation have been released,…
Capcom has released its financial report covering April 2024 to March 2025, and the big takeaway is that Steam is now the publisher’s single largest revenue driver. Sales on Steam over the period totalled 52.723 billion yen ($363 million), an increase of 61.1% over the previous fiscal year, which makes Valve’s platform responsible for 31.3%…
A new episode of Nintendo Minute is now live. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is just a week away from releasing, so the game is the topic of discussion in this week’s episode. Kit and Krysta said in the video description that “we are trying to be patient and wait for Animal Crossing: New Horizons but…