Fixing the fixes. Off the back of My Time at Sandrock‘s huge update last week, Pathea Games has brought in a new patch to make sure that the fixes are running as they should be on Switch. The ver. 1.1.4.2 update is now available and while it is substantially smaller than the beefy one that…
The challenge was simple, really: Honour Mode had told me exactly what I was in for before I started. One save, no backsies, no cheeky Alt+F4s to safety. If the active party wiped even once, even to something stupid, then I could only keep my save file with an asterisk—I’d be shamefully knocked down from the…
Here’s a deal to get your trigger finger twitching. Fanatical’s Build your own Shooter bundle offers 23 cracking action games from small and independent developers for less than $2 each. While the focus is on lesser-known shooters, there are some pretty big names in the package. Most notable is probably the Dusk/Amid Evil pack, which…
Still up on other storefronts. Hollow Knight: Silksong‘s Switch eShop listing has disappeared from the North American storefront. Spotted on the Silksong subreddit (via Wario64), the page was seemingly removed earlier today. Now, when you search for Silksong on the eShop, you only get a result for Hollow Knight. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“I remember discovering awesome half-finished-then-abandoned bosses and rejected stages”. Recently, we spoke to Tetsu “Tez” Okano, a former SEGA employee and the director of games like SEGAGAGA and Astro Boy: Omega Factor. During this chat, Okano spoke about various games he’s worked on over the years, sharing some incredible insights into some of the projects…
With the launch of its RDNA 4 GPU architecture and FSR 4, AMD leveraged the power of machine learning to improve its upscale and frame generator. However, even if you rushed out to buy a new RX 9070 graphics card, your chance at checking out FSR 4 depended entirely on devs adding it to their…
Extremely cool not-an-April-Fool’s-joke news alert: Armored Core 6 is co-op now. I loved the mech combat in Armored Core 6 when I reviewed it last year, and it was a strong enough singleplayer action game to run away with our best action game of the year award, just like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in 2019….
Summary How social deduction games function through clarity. Improved understanding by adding new languages. Customize your localization at a granular level. The last thing you want in a game about lying is to look suspicious just because you didn’t understand what exactly was happening. Forest of Deceit, the social deduction party game created by Ghost…
“The first Sega Mega Drive’ side-scrolling deathmatch”. The French homebrew developer Gonesbrew has announced it is working on a new title for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, which it believes to be the “first Sega Megadrive’ side-scrolling deathmatch” released for Sega’s 16-bit console. According to its developer, Vector F (as the project is called)…
Out today on Switch and Switch 2. Square Enix has dropped a day one patch for Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, which is out now on Switch and Switch 2. The patch is a pretty small one, admittedly, but it does make a few small tweaks — adding in a few more voice…