“A unicorn is worth more than riches”. In 2009, in the run-up to Christmas, I remember poring over a recent issue of Official Nintendo Magazine looking for games I might want for the holiday season. Flicking through the pages and taking in every single word, one review in particular jumped out at me. The art…
Between wrangling a full-time job and parenting two young kids (including one born smack in the middle of development), I built The Abandoned Planet from a tiny corner of a Florida bedroom that doubles as office, nursery, and general chaos zone. Picture a Moleskine notebook taking up the last bit of empty space on a…
Our first game, Hyper Light Drifter, is a very personal story. I began work on the game during a brutal low period, stemming from a lifetime of health problems. The game reflected these personal struggles, and development on the title helped to focus on a creative outlet that could sustain and help to build something…
Just a few days ago, GPD announced it would need to strip the battery out of its upcoming device to fit AMD’s beefy Strix Halo chip, and now Ayaneo says it can do so while keeping a “built-in high-capacity battery”. That’s a big claim, and one I’m quite excited for. As announced on the Ayaneo…
Today we’re excited to launch Stories: The Path of Destinies on PS4, an action RPG set in a beautiful world full of fantastic locations to explore. It’s also brimming with evil Imperial Ravens to defeat using fluid and stylish Sword Fu. In addition to the storybook aesthetic and fast-paced action, one of our key interests…
Despite studio being “on the brink” of closure. The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy has proven to be a huge hit with those who have played it so far, boasting an incredibly engaging storyline with a total of 100 potential endings. Despite developer Too Kyo Games being “on the brink” of collaspe, co-director Kazutaka…
Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, 2020, which means that the fifth anniversary is just over a week away. Despite that age, and the fact that it’s a singleplayer RPG with no live service grind, its peak concurrent player count today on Steam—and only Steam—was nearly 44,000. That’s genuinely astounding, especially when you consider that…
Note: Major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 7! Back before Fallout Season 2 began, I plugged my brain into a bunch of computers—Mr. House-style—so I could calculate the odds of certain characters from the Fallout universe appearing in the show. Unlike Mr. House, I’m not particularly good at predicting the future, though I’m still…
If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be reviewing a laptop with 192 GB of RAM and an RTX 5090, I’d think you were pitching an episode of Black Mirror. Yet here sits the Acer Predator Helios 18 AI—a machine that bulldozes right through the line between desktop and laptop. If you’re…
One month after SXSW 2020 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, and things have not seen any improvement. For SEGA, they announced last month that their SXSW Sonic announcements would be in “an all new format”, and it would be happening in April. Well, it is now April, and that is no longer going…