“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”. If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles,…
I didn’t realise a criminal empire would lead to so many early mornings. Yet, here I am, waking up at 7 am every morning and skateboarding around my regulars, making sure they’ve got enough stuff to get them through the day. The cash from the morning’s take goes to a hole in a wall, and…
A Steam success. Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse and developer Eremite Games have today announced that the award-winning dark fantasy roguelike city builder (is that enough genre terms for ya?) Against the Storm will be making the jump to Switch on 26th June. This one launched on Steam in late 2023 and has since gone…
Hello soon to be Alchemists, I’m Mateusz, Game Designer of Alchemist: The Potion Monger, here to convince you to buy property surrounded by gigantic vines (a small annoyance) on a faraway island. This fresh opportunity is now available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S owners! Purchase Agreement Includes: Solving puzzles to brew potions and…
I confess that I’d forgotten all about Mafia: The Old Country, the fourth game in the long-running series and the second developed by Hangar 13 (not including its remake of the OG Mafia). Indeed, the last time I’d thought about Hangar 13 was a few years ago, after it laid off a substantial amount of…
A “cross-buy” offer. Deltarune will be releasing the same day as the Switch 2 and ahead of the big launch, Toby Fox has provided an update in his latest newsletter about how you’ll be able to access his game on your new Nintendo system. If you’ve already bought the game on the original Switch, or…
What series would you like to see next-gen? Ubisoft recently confirmed it would be supporting the Switch 2 with Star Wars Outlaws and this was followed by a rating for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Now, the third-party publisher looks like it could be teasing a few other games on its social media pages. Ubisoft Brazil recently…
Following the trend of slapping the AI tag on everything, MSI’s newest additions to the Crosshair gaming laptop family highlight the fifth-generation Tensor Cores of Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs. It’s a testament to just how proud laptop manufacturers are to play host to some of the most proficient gaming technology today. Whether the MSI Crosshair 16…
Bonjour, evildoers. Today’s Triple-i Initiative showcase promised us some Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse news, and we got a little bit of that during today’s presentation. In the short new trailer up top, featuring commentary from Motion Twin — the lead developer on Konami’s revival, who also created Dead Cells — we got a look at some…
Hey, did you know these Valve guys are doing pretty well for themselves? Handily going toe-to-toe with Amazon, making more money per employee than Apple, and having a center of gravity so huge that even Microsoft looks set to come crawling back to it. And I’m willing to bet that Monica Harrington, one of the…