I gotta say, it’s been a good time to come back to Overwatch. Five new heroes, plus all of the ones I missed out on in the three or four years I haven’t been playing. The Sanrio collaboration that actually had me contemplating playing Widowmaker for the first time in my life. A renewed drive…
We mentioned a couple of weeks back that Nvidia had a new toy called RTX Video HDR coming. Well, it’s here as part of Nvidia’s latest driver release for the launch of the RTX 4070 TI Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Long story short, RTX Video HDR uses AI algorithms to convert SDR video to HDR and it’s part…
Iida and producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi speak in new interview. Since leaving Konami in 2014, former Castlevania series producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi has focused his creative energies on Bloodstained, a spiritual successor to the vampire-hunting franchise produced at ArtPlay, his current studio. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was a critical and commercial success, and received…
On December 27, the official Rainbow Six Siege account posted on X that it was “aware of an incident” affecting the game, but that sort of undersells it. Hackers went berserk in Siege over the weekend, and players reported a range of anomalies: receipt of billions of credits and ultra-rare or developer-only skins, and chaotic…
King’s Field inspired Hidetaka Miyazaki to create his ‘Souls’ series. Today marks the 30th birthday of King’s Field, a PlayStation title with an incredible legacy – and one which some Western players might be unaware of. In fact, most non-Japanese players might be more familiar with a single screenshot from the game which has, in…
It’s a pretty great time for lovers of historical fiction in their videogames. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a banger. I understand those PlayStation folks are enjoying Ghost of Yotei (assuredly PC-bound at some point). Games like Manor Lords, or Hunt: Showdown, or good ol’ Crusader Kings also let us live out our dreams of…
Gust and Koei Tecmo have released a fresh new trailer for their upcoming Fairy Tail RPG which is scheduled to arrive on the Nintendo Switch worldwide in 2020. This particular trailer shows off various segments from the opening parts of the game and should be a must watch for fans of the anime show. Koei…
No, it’s not generative AI. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 developer Monolith Soft has revealed that it used significant procedural generation to cope with the vast increase in assets required to build the world of the critically-acclaimed Switch RPG. As detailed by CG World (thanks, VGC), Monolith Soft’s map model designer Yoichi Akizuki, support engineer Mitsuhiro Hirose,…
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow (Image credit: Wadjet Eye) Developer: Cloak and DaggerYear: 20122 The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow isn’t the scariest horror game I’ve ever played, but it might be the most disarming. The most powerful tool in its…
Worth the wait. Sometimes good things come to those who wait, and few things embody this concept better than ASTLIBRA Revision, the final release of a game that’s been developed by one man for over 15 years. KEIZO, a humble Japanese salaryman, started work on Astlibra because he felt there weren’t enough 2D action RPG…