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…
Let there be light Waterblocks aren’t overly interesting, not outside of their function, anyway. But with so many parts of a build getting blinged out by manufacturers, it was only a matter of time before a company gave the same treatment to a waterblock. That company is Zotac. Inside Zotac’s booth at CES, we had…
Textures? in this economy? In the mid-’90s, with the Nintendo 64 looming, Nintendo was still looking for exciting new titles that would placate its enormous army of SNES owners. Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island are all examples of games that squeezed every last drop of juice out of…
Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here PlayStation · Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 371: Ghosted Welcome back! This week Justin interviews the folks at Easy Day Studios about Skater XL, Kristen shares her rousing hands-on impressions of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and the team celebrates the launch of…
In a rare act of restraint, it took me an entire four days to watch the eight episodes of Netflix’s new Castlevania series, Castlevania: Nocturne. It really was worth savoring: season after season Powerhouse Animation Studios has upped its game, and it’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since the final season of the show’s original run…
Down 33% in 5 months. Nintendo’s share price has been on a downward turn over the last several months, currently sitting at 9,950 yen following an all-time high of 14,795 yen in August 2025. Fluctuations are inevitable in this business, but according to Kantan Games‘ CEO Dr. Serkan Toto, Nintendo’s investors are “spooked” by the…
Who runs the world? Girl(bug)s! If you haven’t yet made it to the end of Hollow Knight: Silksong — one of our favourite games of 2025 — then be warned, there are major spoilers for the entirety of the game below… Many insects are matriarchal creatures. For termites, honey bees, praying mantises, ants, and spiders…
As I’ve asserted elsewhere, every game has two lives: The first begins on its launch day; the second when a modder inevitably puts Goku in it. Provided enough time, all games eventually conform to this axiom—sometimes even those that had already hosted a Goku to begin with. But the universal drive to mod Goku into…
Category: ID@Xbox March 20, 2025 How Promise Mascot Agency is Being Built with Accessibility in Mind Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor There are numerous features developers must consider implementing when developing their games. These could be large, overarching ones – ‘How big should the game world be?’ ‘Will it need to support multiplayer?’ – or…
TSMC is the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world with 70% foundry market share. Its chip fabs are mostly based in Taiwan, but it does also have one fab in Japan, two in China and, more pertinently to this story, two in the USA: one 8-inch fab in Washington, and one 12-inch fab in Arizona….