Fuji TV’s series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex via Automaton). During his years at Capcom he was producer on Final Fight and Street Fighter 2, as well as racking up credits on Darkstalkers and Resident Evil games, among others….
At some point in the future, I look forward to telling my grandchildren that their new holo-GPUs are nothing like the wonderful hardware I experienced as a child. No, our graphics cards were spiky, robust bits of technology—and they came in boxes covered in art featuring robot frogs, or scantily clad cyber elves, or the…
“These discs were not burned with a CD writer, these discs were pressed in a factory”. This is the second in a two-part deep dive into the history of video games in South Africa. You can read part one here. In 1995, my family emigrated to the UK, which is why I’ll be sharing the…
At this point in my internet life, I’ve been conditioned to just assume that everything I see is fundamentally “fake” in some way, either made up by some guy or computer generated in any number of ethically or practically dubious ways. But Windows 10’s desktop background, with the blue light bursting out of a Windows…
FBC: Firebreak is Remedy’s upcoming chaotic co-op shooter / Control spin-off. I was already invested in it thanks to Robin Valentine’s FBC: Firebreak preview, which talked about all the hilarious and treacherous times to be expected, but after hearing what Remedy Director Mike Kayatta has to say about the studio’s approach to this game, I’m…
Square Enix has dropped a new trailer for the highly anticipated Bravely Default II which is coming to Nintendo Switch on 26th February next year. The Japanese trailer introduces us to a look at the magic kingdom of Wiswald and some prominent characters from the region including three Asterisk Holders. The video also showcases three…
Look, I’m not one to tell someone they’re playing a game wrong. There’s nary a yum you’ll find me yucking. You do you, man. Want to turn the Sims into a murder-house? Great. Want to talk to the monsters in Doom? Me too. Want to turn Skyrim into a pitch-perfect recreation of the single most…
Hey there, fellow FreQ! It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to talk to you about Amplitude, but with PAX East right around the corner, and looking at the great progress we’ve been making in development, it seems like a great time to show you what we are up to. Team Amplitude has…
In a new Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer update, Rocksteady says it’s “top priority” is fixing persistent login and server problems that continue to plague the game. But it’s not an easy fix, because it’s not just one problem. Suicide Squad launched two weeks ago, on February 2, but some owners are still…
Dredge was one of 2023’s out-of-left field indie greats—we gave it an 89 in our Dredge review, then later bestowed it with Best Setting award for our Game of the Year shoutouts. It wears that mantle well from what I’ve seen as a genuinely brilliant bit of bathophobia–inducing atmospheric horror, in which you man a…