The first time I encountered a Game Boy was not long after it came out. My family lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. Our friends were mostly Americans who attended an international school with us. Although video game systems and handhelds were not easily available to us in Argentina proper, we would get those…
If I’d been asked this morning to guess what’s been going on in Ark: Survival Ascended, the survival game with dinosaurs, and my options were “they added some new dinosaurs” or “they made a Mickey Mouse sidescroller in it,” I definitely would’ve been wrong. This week, Studio Wildcard updated the Ark Development Kit mod tools…
Last week, we asked you to climb to great heights and share images from above in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares Aloy taking a hot air balloon ride in Horizon Forbidden West PattyGnand shares the four girls sitting on a lookout ledge in Lost Records:…
FULL ONE-HOUR INTERVIEW: genxgrownup.com/GK One of the coolest benefits of being a content creator is having the opportunity to actually speak with some of the key figures who laid the foundation of the video game industry, and my guest for this video is without a doubt one of those individuals. He was there in the…
“Keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time”. Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the most acclaimed entries in Square Enix’s long-running series, and certainly one of the best PS1 games of all time, so when the rumours were confirmed recently that the 32-bit classic is getting a remaster…
Big update rolls into view Well that was fast. In this new era of Windows as a Service (WaaS), Microsoft has released its first cumulative update for Windows 10, which some are calling Service Release 1 (tongue in cheek, of course). Microsoft lists the update as KB 3081424 and it’s a big one. It replaces…
One of the more memorable moments in the 2022 Game Awards came courtesy of a kid who crashed FromSoftware’s acceptance of the Game of the Year award for Elden Ring. Don’t expect something similar to happen in 2023, though, as TGA founder and host Geoff Keighley said during a recent Q&A livestream that “we definitely…
Last week, Blizzard learned just how little Diablo 4 players want to avoid traps while doing dungeons. Reddit and social media were ablaze with criticisms over season 3’s new vaults and the robot companion. It was as if the success of season 2 was an anomaly and Diablo 4 would go back to being the…
It’s a special week in the world of PlayStation, as the legendary adventure game Grim Fandango returns to the spotlight in a gorgeous, remastered edition for PS4 and Vita. Welcome back, Manny! In Grim Fandango Remastered, players are (re)introduced to Manny Calavera, a travel agent working at the Department of Death. Manny sells travel accommodations…
Coming to “Nintendo Switch(es)” this June. Last year, the “hand-drawn 3D platformer” Ruffy and the Riverside was announced for the Nintendo Switch. In an update, the German indie developer Zockrates Laboratories has now confirmed the game will be coming to “Nintendo Switch(es) on June 26th, 2025”. Make of this what you will, but given Nintendo’s…