During a 10th-anniversary livestream where Kojima Productions announced its own saké and a credit card (seriously), it’s probably no surprise that Death Stranding is getting an anime. Death Stranding Mosquito is its working title, and it’s in production at ABC Animation Studio, with Hiroshi Miyamoto as director (Sonic Team, Eiga Hugtto! Precure x Futari wa…
I’m of two minds about Crimson Desert‘s patches—on one hand, Pearl Abyss has been shaving off some of the friction that made its bizarre, madcap action game interesting. On the other, there were a lot of really irritating quirks that needed to be sanded down, and it’s downright impressive how dedicated the studio’s been to…
I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…
Remappy days. The long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally released in December, and well, not everyone is happy with it. The game’s focus on NPCs and a literal desert of an open world did not resonate with gamers as well as Retro Studios had hoped. I hate to admit it, but I agree with the…
As Europe’s summer heatwave smolders on, a novel way of tracking the record-breaking temps has emerged, namely crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs. That’s according to a Firefox developer at Mozilla (via Techspot). The implication is that the exceptionally high ambient heat currently hitting parts of Europe is enough to push 13th and 14th Gen Intel…
Every new Rockstar game is more simulation-heavy than the last, and Grand Theft Auto 6 aims to bring players closer to real-life in a variety of ways. One of these is the addition of vehicle refuelling, which will require players to stop off at gas stations (or petrol stations if you’re a Brit like me)…
Jump Festa 2021 Online has been taking place this weekend and one new title from the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Konami announced that it is Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel, which is a card-based game. Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel will see players battle various characters which appear in the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime….
The official Bandai Namco account has tweeted this afternoon that there’s a new character coming to Jump Force as downloadable content. The character is is the male fire demon Hiei from the anime and manga series, YuYu Hakusho. You will be able to obtain the character next year on the Nintendo Switch system. For now…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
People of PlayStation the world over, God of War is launching April 20, 2018. I would love to write a long blog post here but, apparently, I have a game to get done by 4/20 so I gotta get back to work as soon as possible. God of War | Gallery First, let me say…