PLAION is listed on now-deleted rating. A now-deleted ESRB rating has triggered hopes that we could be getting a new piece of Neo Geo hardware. The rating was posted by PLAION, the company which produces devices like The Spectrum, Intellivision Sprint, A500 Mini, Atari 7800+ and The C64 Mini systems. These are reproductions of the…
Tencent-owned Swedish developer Sharkmob, which announced in October that the supernatural battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt will be taken offline in April 2026, says it will lay off an unspecified number of employees as part of “planned changes to its organizational structure.” The studio said Exoborne, the “tactical open world extraction shooter” announced…
Never work with children or animals, so goes the famous advice for stage performers, entertainers, and anyone having to present something live in front of an audience. Perhaps smart glasses should be added to that list, if yesterday’s Meta Connect 2025 livestream is anything to go by—as the new Ray-Ban Meta glasses took the opportunity…
The early bird can’t catch the worm. It was only a matter of time after US retailers reportedly started receiving Switch 2 units, but now some are sharing screenshots of the console in their home. However, there’s a catch — the console is unable to play any games right now. YouTube account a2dubai has shared…
Another month goes by, another highly-anticipated survival game is poised for a big launch. But Solarpunk, which has over 1.2 million wishlists on Steam, has issued a warning to players before they buy it on June 8: make sure you know what you’re actually getting. “Is Solarpunk for you?” developer Cyberwave asked in a post…
The developers at Guerilla Games are making a last-minute pivot for their live service co-op game set in the Horizon universe after receiving negative player feedback during recent playtests, Bloomberg reports. Horizon Hunters Gathering was supposed to be a live service co-op action game where you group up as a team of animated heroes and…
Generative AI has gotten its deep learning tentacles into many parts of gaming life, and tabletop is no exception—take Dungeons & Dragons for example. While Wizards of the Coast has endured controversy after controversy for accidentally putting AI art in sourcebooks, and has a generally anti-AI stance, Hasbro’s CEO Chris Cocks has been on the…
The popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch has received a number of patches and with those updates come the unavoidable nerfs. Dataminer Ninji is reporting that the 1.2 patch has seen some bug rates reduced drastically. These include Peacock butterflies which have seen their spawn rate numbers dropped a staggering 80-90%. Ninji…
A top-tier wired headset to satisfy your aural fixation We’ve had the G633 on hand here at Maximum PC for quite some time, but we’ve wanted to hold off on reviewing the unit for a few reasons. Now that we’ve had it and used it to its full potential, we can confidently say that this…
Remember remember. Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to rank some covers? Before we head into this week’s competition, however, let’s check out what happened last time. We got all agricultural as we matched up two covers for Harvest Moon 64 in celebration of it landing on NSO. They…