“Pure, unadulterated love for the NES, packaged in an unofficial history book”. Ninty Media, the publisher behind GameBook, GameBook Color and GameBook Advance, is preparing to release a new tome which celebrates Nintendo’s first true home console, the NES. “We’ve been making books for more than 5 years now, with Paul Murphy (Ninty Media’s owner)…
Fond Memories I got my first job in the game industry in 1999 which is right around the time Crash Team Racing originally launched. I was a huge fan of the Crash Bandicoot series at the time, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard a brand-new kart racing game starring Crash was coming…
The next game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio was originally teased at the last Game Awards show, and back then it stood out for taking place in 1915 Japan. The trailer that just dropped at the Summer Game Fest showcase names the game at last: Stranger Than Heaven. But given that it’s a noir thriller…
There’s some big news in the world of graphics cards today. Scott Herkelman, the head of AMD’s Radeon GPU business, has announced he will leave the company by the end of 2023. Herkelman has served as the senior VP and general manager of the Graphics Business Unit at AMD since 2016. Herkelman tweeted: “May you…
Apparently jealous of AMD and Intel’s god-awful CPU branding, Samsung has cooked up a doozy for its latest QD-OLED panel tech for PC gaming monitors. We give you Samsung QD-OLED Penta Tandem, a brighter, more durable panel tech with a baffling brand name. Samsung says the new panel is 1.3 times brighter and twice as…
CAVE legend Junya Inoue worked on the game. Today, the name CAVE is synonymous with amazing arcade shooters, but the company can trace its lineage back through time to other companies, with Toaplan being perhaps the most notable. When Toaplan declared bankruptcy in 1994, its staff splintered off to establish their own studios, one of…
Atelier, a Japanese RPG series, is—as you might expect—filled with conventionally attractive anime people. An upcoming entrant in the series, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, is no exception—and it has big shoes to fill. See, the game’s past protagonist, Ryza, made waves among its fanbase due to having body fat…
Premium editions with early access periods, love ’em or hate ’em (let’s be real, you probably hate them), we can’t deny the fact that they help make the line go up for studios because, er, well. They keep doing it, so it’s clearly profitable enough to tank the negative PR. The Outer Worlds 2, despite…
Final Fantasy 14’s gonna be shaking up how it handles difficulty come patch 7.35, after a mini-disaster with patch 7.25’s Occult Crescent back in May. To put a long story short, Creative Studio 3’s somewhat fumbled approach to content difficulty came to a head; the Forked Tower somehow managed to thread the needle, becoming a…
I spent half of 2023 being cranky about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. I caught a theater demo at Ubisoft Forward in June and came away confused and disappointed that Ubi wasn’t making the Avatar Assassin’s Creed I’d been building up in my head. It seemed so obvious—you could climb up trees, ride an alien horse,…