Eclipsium is a game about removing your own heart—to no obvious personal detriment—in order to power a great and unfathomable machine. Eclipsium is a game about cutting an enormous hole in your hand that you can peer through to see secret pathways. Eclipsium is a game about transitioning from great heights to profound depths with…
Stalker 2 gets away with a lot because, as online editor Fraser Brown said, “We stan a janky weirdo.” It’s a big, ambitious, deeply engrossing game that’s also pretty busted in some pretty major ways. The fact that it’s nonetheless regarded as one of the best games of 2024 is a testament to just how…
“Navigate through a dark and twisted castle in search of escape”. One-man game studio Sunamii Games has just released a short clip from one of its future projects, Twilight Bastion. Described as a “PS1-Style 3D Metroidvania”, the developer cites Square’s cult PS1 classic Vagrant Story as a key inspiration. “You navigate through a dark &…
My new horizon. Remember when Nintendo called Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update the final major free update to the game? It turns out, a lot can change in four years. And here I am again, back on my tropical island paradise, playing through another big free addition – and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition…
‘The Epic Games Store launcher sucks less than it used to’ is not very high praise but it’s about as far as I’m willing to go. It has improved, undeniably, but it’s still painfully slow, awkward, and just not pleasant to use—not to the point that I refuse to use it, but if I have…
Former Arkane Austin head Harvey Smith recently announced his new studio, Black Pony Immersive. As the name suggests will be dedicated to making immersive sims in the tradition of Deus Ex and System Shock. It’s a commitment that I wholeheartedly support, though as is always the case with this genre, there’s a concern over whether…
The FM Towns ‘eroge’ fighter now has more English text. Three years ago, Derek Pascarella released the first version of his English patch for the FM Towns eroge fighting game Ningyou Tsukai, better known in the West as Metal & Lace: The Battle of the Robo Babes. Pascarella has just announced that he has released…
Stop following me! All the major browsers come with a private browsing mode of some sort so that you can, ahem, shop for birthday gifts and, uh, plan surprise parties without leaving any trace of what you’ve been up to. Or, more realistically, to visit seedier sides without leaving a potentially embarrassing trail. Whatever the…
Super Mario 64 is perhaps one of the most well-understood, picked-apart games in existence—a storied speedrun community with years of experience and inquisitions into the game’s code means that, every so often, you stumble across a piece of eldritch knowledge that has no impact on the world whatsoever, but is nonetheless true. For example, did…
Hi everyone! Jay and Tim here with some helpful tips for Disc Jam, our arcade sports game that joined the PS Plus free games lineup for this month. In our previous post we announced the beta and detailed the updates to our doubles game mode. Now that the game has launched, we’re going to dig…