The island of Tsushima is a beautiful place to explore, made of many tiny details lovingly crafted by our team. It’s also considerably different from our last game, Infamous: Second Son, which was full of superpowered visual effects. I’m Matt Vainio, lead visual effects artist at Sucker Punch. I like to describe my job as…
Another free upgrade. Stardew Valley is the gift that just keeps on giving — just a few weeks after ConcernedApe announced it was working on a 1.7 update, today’s Nintendo Direct also unveiled a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the beloved farming sim. And of course, the upgrade is 100% free too. Plus, it includes…
Category: ID@Xbox December 8, 2025 A Sneak Peek at “Samurai Space Opera” Sol Shogunate Coming to Xbox Guy Costantini, CEO and Chaos Agent at Chaos Manufacturing The team at Chaos Manufacturing is thrilled to announce our debut game, Sol Shogunate–what we call a “samurai space opera.” So, what does that mean? Sol Shogunate is a…
Launching end of April. Jupiter Corporation has announced a new Picross entry to its growing lineup: Picross S Konami Antiques Edition. Launching on 30th April 2026 for the Switch eShop, the new game will introduce several classic Konami properties, including: – GRADIUS series– TwinBee series– Castlevania series– Ganbare Goemon series– CONTRA series Read the full…
Remember when the prevailing wisdom of consumer tech was ‘smaller is better’? And then it turned out there was such a thing as too small, as we kept losing our toasty-but-tiny-tech? Confronted with the bloat of today’s Windows install, I do wish certain software peddlers had committed to a similar philosophy of ‘less is more.’…
Battle.net, Blizzard’s own PC game launcher and storefront, and your only port of call (for now) to play games like Diablo 4, World of Warcraft, and other Blizzard games, is having technical issues. A tweet from the Blizzard CS EU account from earlier this morning says the company is “currently investigating an issue” affecting its…
Wake up the Nintendo way. Nintendo’s brand synergy goes deep. Real deep. If visiting Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan wasn’t enough Mario for you, you can now rent an Alarmo for the night at some of the park’s hotels so you can even have Nintendo on the mind while you sleep. In a…
Sink your teeth in. Poncle has just released a brand new gameplay trailer for its upcoming Vampire Survivors spin-off, *deep breath* Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors, which is coming out some time in 2026. And it probably should come with a health warning, because the chaotic blobber-inspired (that’s a term used to…
“If you’re looking to order a Framework Laptop or Desktop with a lot of storage, now is the time to do that.” So says Framework CEO Nirav Patel in the latest update to the company’s ongoing blog post about the memory crisis.We’ve reported previously on numerous occasions on how Framework is handling spiralling RAM and…
The Nintendo Switch version of Samurai Shodown is coming to the west, but SNK has been having a tough time with its release date. In Japan, it has been slated to release on the Switch in December 12th for a few months now. As for western regions, SNK has confirmed that Samurai Shodown will be…