In a new VGC interview, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed that the upcoming JRPG is looking at a 200GB install size, bigger than almost any game out there, and certainly an outlier among singleplayer RPGs. Hamaguchi was responding to a question about Revelation’s retail, physical version. It was previously disclosed that Revelation…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Recruitment sessions start next month. There’s no doubt that the Nintendo-owned studio Monolith Soft is cooking up something for Switch 2, but what it’s working on remains to be seen. Whatever it has planned for the future, it looks like the studio needs a couple more hands on deck as it has announced that it’s…
Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward. Today’s wealth of…
Dream Land. If last weekend’s Mario Movie Direct wasn’t enough for you, Nintendo has today announced that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream will be getting a Direct presentation of its own later this week. As revealed on Nintendo Today!, the presentation will kick off on Thursday 29th January at 2pm GMT, and promises to clue…
Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars. A slightly more eventful post happened when the X…
The Mother Original Soundtrack will be available for Japanese consumers on Christmas Day and will be published by Sony Music Direct. The double vinyl analog recording will be priced up at ¥5,500. Here’s the track listing for those curious: Disc1】Side A01： POLLYANNA (I BELIEVE IN YOU)02： BEIN’ FRIENDS03： THE PARADISE LINE04： MAGICANTSide B01： WISDOM OF…
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced their annual candidates for induction into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This year the complete list of nominees includes Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), Defender, Frogger, Goldeneye 007, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, NBA 2K, Quake, and…
We need to do some kind of wellness check on the Team Fortress 2 community. Sure, the game might have gotten a big summer update and smashed its all-time concurrent player record in the last year, but it’s hardly the apple of Valve’s eye in 2023. Players of the venerable shooter were left to gaze…
Coming February 1st on PS4 & Nintendo Switch. Hamster has revealed that Tecmo’s horizontal shooter Silkworm is coming to Nintendo Switch & PS4 later this week as part of Arcade Archives. It will begin distribution on February 1st. Originally hitting arcades back in 1988, Silkworm was a sidescrolling action game that featured a unique multiplayer…