2 the max. One pleasant surprise of the Switch 2 launch, beyond the advertised upgrades — free and otherwise — to various Switch games, has been seeing how some Switch games that once struggled to hit their frame rate targets have gotten a nice boost on the new console. It seems that Switch 1 games…
Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered this year’s keynote address, sharing a lessons learned from a game development career spanning from his days as lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft 3 to founding his own studio at Bonfire, developers of…
I consider myself to have a pretty high bar for tolerating the unnerving and weird. But watching a long-armed Linguini slap players around in Deadlock triggers a fight or flight response in me that my ancestors probably felt when they saw a prehistoric cave bear for the first time. The Linguini and Remy over Mo…
“Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, everybody’s done something”. Electronic Arts has been in the headlines for all sorts of reasons over the years, but Hazelight Studios founder and director Josef Fares (who is known for expressing his honest opinion) can’t help but feel the third-party video game giant is still “getting more s**t” than it deserves. His…
“That’s why I’m very anti-AI right now”. We’re currently going through a period in tech history where AI is getting put inside pretty much every facet of modern life. Gen-AI is everywhere you look online, while manufacturers are falling over themselves to include AI in every appliance you could mention – whether it makes sense…
Yesterday, Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit pushed its “first BIG post-launch patch” to the game’s opt-in beta branch, giving players a chance to test the update’s changes ahead of their eventual implementation on the main branch. The beta patch brought “a huge balance pass,” retuning enemies, artifacts, and both the costs and effects…
The hack has been dubbed “F-Zero: Vintage Velocity”. Back in November of last year, we told you about a new ROM hack that introduced almost all of the stages from the GBA game F-Zero Maximum Velocity into the SNES original. Well, now it appears that a new group has also done the exact opposite, implementing…
Jason Momoa is “in talks” to star in the 2026 live-action movie adaptation of Street Fighter, as reported by Deadline, alongside a number of other actors who were named in the same article. Momoa’s name was accompanied by Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, and WWE superstar Roman Reigns, who are all apparently in talks of joining…
“The perfect musical bed ahead of the ensuing chaos”. “Boomer shooter” Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun has to rank as one of 2023’s more pleasant surprises. Developed by Auroch Digital, it takes the grimdark universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 and transforms it into a Doom-style FPS, packed with gory kills, pixel-drenched visuals and fast-paced action. “We’d…
Noctua seems to be on a bit of a roll this year, chucking its fans into other companies’ products left, right, and centre. And now it looks like the maker of the world’s best and brownest fans is throwing some at Japanese system builder Sycom for use in some Silent Master RTX 50-series graphics cards….