Switch up. Despite trade-ins and pre-owned sales being one of the core pillars for the UK specialist retailer GAME for many years, recent reports have indicated that the firm will be ending physical trade-ins next month on February 16th, 2024. So far, GAME itself has kept schtum on the matter, while staff from multiple UK…
Once upon a time I happily handed over $170 (plus shipping and import taxes) for a brand new copy of Ys: The Oath in Felghana for my trusty Windows XP machine. Does that sound like a lot? It certainly felt like a lot at the time, but I didn’t regret my purchase. That was just…
It’s often not assumed that composers scoring games are themselves gamers (a travesty I have no explanation for), but in my case, my entire life has been marked by countless memorable titles. In my profession, I’ve been very lucky to score some remarkable story-driven narrative projects like Journey, ABZU, and The Banner Saga trilogy, and…
Last week, we asked you share romantic moments from a game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: bluegreenherb shares Tifa and Aerith each holding one of Cloud’s arms in Final Fantasy VII Remake Amianan_NiRaGuB shares Astarion lovingly gazing up at the player character who romanced him in Baldur’s Gate 3…
Leslie Benzies, former GTA producer and Rockstar North president, and founder of developer Build A Rocket Boy, unveiled the first gameplay trailer for his upcoming game, MindsEye, coming this summer. The third-person action game is set in a futuristic world “where AI and human greed collide to bring earth to the precipice of collapse,” which…
Online gaming publication Siliconera has translated parts of the extensive Famitsu interview with respected Nintendo developer, Shigeru Miyamoto. The interview is in part to celebrate the Nintendo Switch’s third anniversary. Mr Miyamoto talks about a number of things including his love of Apple products, Mario, video game streaming, the Mario movie, and much more. Read…
RimWorld‘s latest expansion, Odyssey, promises to add a pretty amazing amount of stuff to the game’s already deeply layered space colony simulation. Between the customisable spaceship, orbital exploration, new biomes, quest system, and a whole machine hive mind threat to deal with, on paper it seems like the biggest expansion yet. What’s piqued my interest,…
On May 20, three Super NES™ games and one NES™ game are joining the Nintendo Switch Online service, bringing the total number of classic games that can be enjoyed for no extra charge with a Nintendo Switch Online membership to 82. Joining the Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ – Nintendo Switch Online library for the Nintendo…
Hype is high Benq today announced that its 27-inch RL2755HM “blazing fast professional gaming monitor” is now shipping, meaning you should be able to find it online, if not now then soon. Selected as the official console gaming monitor of both Major League Gaming (MLG) and UMG, they hype machine is in overdrive on this…
Dragon Quest is one of the most acclaimed and influential series in gaming. If you’ve ever played a Japanese (or Japanese-inspired) RPG, it probably owes a debt to this amazing franchise. And it all started with Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II. These games captivated players by sending them on epic adventures across expansive…