Lost Sphear, the second title from Tokyo RPG Factory, will be released on January 23rd, and I am very excited to deliver this new RPG for fans to play. Many people played our first title, I am Setsuna, and we received a lot of feedback. We thoroughly reviewed that feedback during the development process for…
Fortune recently had the chance to interview Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser. Mr. Bowser was asked about the recently released Switch Lite platform and what Nintendo’s goal was with the platform given that consumers can purchase the original Nintendo Switch. Mr. Bowser said the end goal is to diversify and to reach out to…
Six months after the massive “teraleak” that unleashed literally decades of Pokémon art, design documents, and other development material upon the world, Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind it. As reported by Polygon, the company has petitioned a California court to issue a DMCA subpoena ordering…
Last year I made a quiz all about recognizing a game logo from just a single letter—and yes, I did all 26 letters of the alphabet. While I was laboriously putting that quiz together I noticed something interesting: a lot of games use a very stylized letter A in their logo. There are several logos…
We’d like to thank everyone in the Bloodborne community for their continued feedback and support. We’re humbled by your dedication. This amazing community has made Bloodborne an exciting game to spectate and share. To add to this, we’re happy to announce that we are releasing a free SHAREfactory Theme of Bloodborne on June 2nd. We…
In an interview with Edge Magazine earlier this year, Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galente said that, prior to launching the overnight sensation that wound up spawning its very own genre, he almost gave up on game development. Vampire Survivors, he admitted, was the first game he’d made just for fun. And fun, he surmised, would…
The most recent incarnation of Microsoft’s long-running flight simulator series is a genuine marvel, whether you fancy yourself an ace pilot or just want to crash spectacularly into the Eiffel Tower. Speaking more to the former instinct, Microsoft is teaming up with Boeing to put that high-fidelity simulation to work in a virtual training program…
We had a great time at PSX 2017, but there’s no time to rest! We’re back this week with interviews on Firewall: Zero Hour and Donut County, as well as an extensive discussion on why you never show the monster in a horror movie. Plus: Final Fantasy recommendations, the Harry Potter mythos, and so much…
PC gamers have been accustomed to the presence of physics in games since first launching a toilet at a Combine soldier’s head with Half-Life 2’s gravity gun. Yet while there are countless games that play with simulations of Newton’s laws of motion, few games engage with physics as a subject or theme. This is what…
If you’re anything like me, your myriad social media feeds have become a rolling timeline of atrocities to which you feel compelled, uselessly, to bear witness. But here’s an opportunity to do something, however small: Itch.io is currently hosting Play for Peace – Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle, an enormous 382-game pack that you…