Last week I wrote about a particular bug in Stalker 2 and how similar it was to a bug I encountered in Stalker: Call of Pripyat way back in 2010. I wasn’t mad about it: it gave me a warm fuzzy “some things never change” feeling you might have for a quirky old car whose…
Birdwatching seems like the kind of hobby that would instil an indescribable zen within you, but the unpredictability of it all makes it feel a lot more chaotic than you realise. Not only are you practically under the control of the weather, but there’s never any guarantee that you’ll see anything good. That’s why in…
It’s Yoshi time! After a special Star Fox release last week, Nintendo Music is now celebrating Yoshi with the soundtracks from his NES and Game Boy puzzle titles. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Microsoft reiterates it will remain exclusive to Xbox. There’s been conversation about Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service potentially being released on rival platforms, but at the end of last year, the company’s gaming CEO Phil Spencer ruled this out. If you were hopeful this might change one day, it seems not. In Xbox’s latest business…
A confession: I’ve never played the original PS2 version of Metal Gear Solid 3. Though I had (and loved) MGS1 on PlayStation, I became an Xbox—and then PC—boy thereafter, which meant I only got access to the series’ sequels when they got Bluepoint HD editions in 2011. Those same Bluepoint HD editions would become the…
If there’s a recent game-dev story I’m ravenous to hear more about, it’s this: what the hell happened with Hardsuit Labs’ version of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? If you can cast your mind back to the heady days of 2019, you might remember the game’s initial announcement, when Paradox got Brian Mitsoda—writer on…
The concept vetoed by Miyamoto. Right back at the start of this year, we discovered that after inventing Waluigi, the team behind Mario Tennis, Camelot Software Planning, was planning another ‘Wa’ variant of Princess Peach. It was a shudder-inducing thought, we’ll admit, and one that was rejected by Shigeru Miyamoto before even looking at the…
Slay the Spire 2 was an immediate success, delivering a top-selling launch day performance. But as more data emerges, it’s become increasingly clear that Slay the Spire 2’s launch is a historic record-setter. According to Newzoo, PC Gamer’s official data partner, StS 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and it’s leading by a massive…
Barrel roll. Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via Nintendo Today. As noted by the redoubtable Wario64, the video tease on the app shows only the logos of the Danish company and the SK series, with a little brick barrel rolling from right to left across a wooden tabletop: Read the full…
“I can’t deny the fact that the PlayStation is selling well around the world.”. While the Nintendo 64 managed to secure a second-place position in the console wars in the West, it was a slightly different story in Japan. According to Nintendo’s own figures, the console only managed to shift 5,540,000 units in the region,…