Salmon point. Whilst it wasn’t part of the original release 11 years ago (yikes), Salmon Run has become a core part of the Splatoon experience, as important as Turf Wars and bizarre single player adventures. Splatoon Raiders is Salmon Run to an extent, but it feels to me like a side mode from ‘Splatoon 4’…
One of this year’s GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam. There’s a whole bunch in Harrington’s recollections to pick out: like when she gave her nephew some…
Even after a couple of hours with Full Metal Schoolgirl, I’m not entirely sure what it wants to be: a shooter, a roguelite, a campy yet lewd robo-corpo hack-and-slash? It’s a little bit of everything, and doesn’t particularly excel in any aspect. Yet I’m weirdly endeared to its bizarre late 2000s jankiness. It reeks of…
The sandbox MMO DreamWorld raised almost $65,000 on Kickstarter in 2021—not nearly enough to fund much of anything in the way of a videogame, let alone an “infinite open world MMO” that promised to host millions of players and thousands of biomes on a single shared world. But it had the backing of startup investor…
CEDEC 2020, a game developer conference, was held this past weekend. There, Nintendo had multiple Animal Crossing: New Horizons developers talk about the game, explaining how they created the game’s villagers. They said that, to make the villagers more interesting to players, the team wanted to diversify their appearance so that players would “want to…
Reader’s digest. Updated with Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Bahnsen Knights! Hold it (and enjoy!). The portability of Nintendo Switch makes it a great system to play a wide variety of genres, and while visual novels can be enjoyed perfectly well on your TV, there’s something about playing them on a handheld which just…
at a glance (+) BratwurstHigh performance; minimal noise; pleasing aesthetics. (-) Veggie DogRelatively expensive; a little on the husky side. Feet firmly planted in Serious Business territory Nvidia’s new Maxwell generation of video cards breaks down into two categories: the GTX 970 and GTX 980. As its numbering implies, the 970 is the less-expensive and…
Alongside the 1995 underwater sim ‘Aquanaut’s Holiday’. Earlier today, the Japanese studio Artdink announced a new ‘Game Log’ initiative to release some of its older titles on Nintendo Switch & PC (as spotted by Gematsu), with the first couple of reissues that were revealed being based on games created by Doshin the Giant creator Kazutoshi…
Big fish in a small pond Samsung has built a good reputation for fast and high-quality SSDs. It introduced the 470 to desktops four years ago, and its SSDs were in high-end laptops before that. The company also distinguished itself by designing its own controller chips and manufacturing its own NAND flash memory. Indeed, Samsung’s…
If 2022 was the year OLED finally hit the desktop was 2023 the year OLED went mainstream on the PC? Arguably not, what with pricing that still starts around $700. But we did get a lot more choice when it comes to proper OLED monitors. Several manufacturers joined Alienware in the 34-inch ultrawide OLED segment,…