In 2010, at the launch of Star Trek Online, the spacefaring MMO opened on the Klingon War. In typical fashion, the Federation was desperately trying to sue for peace, while a klingon ambassador was doing everything he could to thwart it. STO has always been a massive theme park full of nods to the classic…
Some serious ‘Firewatch’ vibes here. Publisher Annapurna Interactive has released a new trailer for its heartfelt single-player adventure Forever Ago, due for release on the Switch 2 this autumn. Revealed during the recent Xbox Partner Showcase, the new trailer displays some heavy Firewatch vibes, with lots of rural environments to explore and a narrative that…
There’s a brand new Transformers game coming to consoles and PC towards the end of the year and it is titled Transformers: Battlegrounds. The game is by Outright Games and Coatsink and judging from the brief trailer embedded below it looks set to feature open world gameplay with plenty of wacky action thrown in. You…
Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or download here Join the Blogcast gang as we enjoy a quieter, more intimate show (read: Sid couldn’t make it this week) and continue our discussion about gaming masterpieces. Inspired by this week’s release of Firewatch, we recall games that nail the feeling of loneliness and isolation, veering dangerously close…
May 12th was supposed to be the day that Star Wars Episode I: Racer was intended to release on the Switch and Playstation 4. Unfortunately, the game, which originally released on the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color in 1999, has been delayed. It was announced on Twitter that “due to the ongoing work from…
I accepted long ago that I have what can be generously described as ‘a face for radio.’ We can’t all be supermodels, so I focussed on building other skills. However, that doesn’t mean I think a career in modelling is a cake walk, or that models aren’t also hard-working creatives like me. As such, with…
As much as we want to see it… There’s nothing like a bit of patent discussion to get us Nintendo fans all excited, eh? While the latest legal bagsy from the Big N isn’t quite as juicy as the potential hardware features we’ve seen in recent weeks, it does speak to a visual style that…
It’s a pleasure to meet everyone. I’m Hokuto Okamoto, the producer of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age. I’m ecstatic to announce the release date for the latest installment in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest XI, for everyone in the West: Septebmer 4, 2018! Dragon Quest XI was developed so that it…
Game, set and match! The number of Dreamcast games you can play online in 2026 is seriously impressive – and now we have another stone-cold classic to add to those ranks. Shuouma, a hacker who has gotten several classic Dreamcast games online again, has worked their magic on Power Smash, the Japanese version of Virtua…
Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) is among the best you can find. But let’s just lay it out there: these sims are a bunch of…