Pickpocketing is back in Assassin’s Creed Mirage as the latest game returns to its stealthy roots. You’ll be spending a lot of time sneaking around ninth-century Baghdad, and there are plenty of pockets in need of emptying. If you keep your nerve and don’t draw any unwanted attention, you can make a decent living off…
One of my favourite movie tales concerns Marathon Man, a 1976 thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Known for his method approach, Hoffman stayed up for three days in preparation for a scene in which his character was sleep-deprived. When he found out about this approach, the urbane Olivier apparently said to the young…
Goof Troop, Little Mermaid and Bonkers on the way, too. Retro game streaming service Antstream Arcade has announced that it has teamed up with Disney to bring “three of the most iconic Disney video games ever” to its platform. From today, Disney’s The Lion King, Disney’s The Jungle Book, and Disney’s Aladdin will all be…
REPO’s dev team loves its players and modders, but it’s kindly asking everyone to optimize their mods so they don’t fry the servers. The REPO devs answered some questions from players in a Q&A video posted on Saturday, including one question about semiwork’s “stance on mods.” Their response was positive, but with one small ask…
Get up, get up, get out of here! Though it may feel like the ‘quirky’ branch of indie JRPGs has become a played out trope by now, it wasn’t too long ago that a confusing, humorous, and parodying take on the standard template was seen as a novel concept. One of the most significant examples…
Embark is enjoying the organic trading culture that’s emerged in Arc Raiders, but when it expands on trading in the future, it won’t be in the form of an Escape From Tarkov-style auction house. That’s because, according to design lead Virgil Watkins in an interview with GamesRadar+, they tried it during development and found that…
There comes a time in your life when all you can think about is packing up your belongings, moving to a new place, and opening a coffee shop. It sounds like the kind of thing I’d persuade myself everyone feels when in reality that’s just not the case, but the love for the Coffee Talk…
Puzzling out how to change appearance in Nioh 3 is likely one of the first things you’ll wonder how to do, especially if, in typical Soulslike fashion, you either regret the monstrosity you’ve created, or they somehow don’t look anything like they did in the character creator. I swear, I spend 30 minutes designing a…
The famous Nintendo tune returns. Nintendo mentioned how there were all sorts of surprises to discover in Mario Kart World and a week after the game’s launch it looks like Totaka’s Song has been discovered. As highlighted on social media and elsewhere online (via Nintendo Everything), you can hear Yoshi humming this Nintendo tune in…
Hey everyone, today we’re announcing Absolute Drift: Zen Edition for PS4, a collaboration between Flippfly and Funselektor Labs. For those of you who are familiar with Flippfly’s Race The Sun, you’ll understand why we were really attracted to Absolute Drift’s minimal aesthetic, and why we wanted to help bring the game to PS4. I mean,…