More Mario? Surely not!? Welcome to the future. You, dear reader, are reading these words in the far-off, distant, sci-fi future year that is 2024. While the hoverboards, flying vehicles, and inside-out trousers have all apparently been delayed in this branch of the timeline due to some spacetime-related cock up, at least Skynet is coming…
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak wins Game of the Year. At this year’s annual Tokyo Game Awards, which are held during the Tokyo Game Show, the Family Computer — known as the Famicom or NES (to us) — won the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award (thanks VGC). That’s a rather long title for an…
Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You’ve got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But there are only so many…
In a surprising announcement Microsoft and Nintendo have announced that the sequel to the magical Ori and the Blind Forest is available today on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is now available via the Nintendo Switch eShop or alternatively you can order a physical edition. Check it out in…
I remember the first time I looked into a kaleidoscope as a kid, it was so strange and disarming to me that I threw up a little bit, and then it was confiscated by my parents. Sad, but probably for the best. It’s a memory that I pushed so far down I’d almost entirely forgotten…
Hi y’all! For the last several years, I’ve been working with Tamas Kemenczy & Ben Babbitt on “Kentucky Route Zero,” a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky. We’re happy to tell you that, as part of a collaboration with Annapurna Interactive, Kentucky Route Zero will also be available…
It’s been just shy of two months since Subnautica 2 splashed into early access, and developer Unknown Worlds is celebrating its success on X by sharing some official statistics on what players have achieved during their over 58,000,000 hours of combined playtime. According to the studio’s data, those achievements include a spectacular number of drownings….
“Never be the third best shooter”. PlatimumGames’ Vanquish garnered plenty of positive notices when it launched back in 2010, but it perhaps didn’t achieve the commercial success it truly deserved. As is the case with some of the company’s most beloved titles, it has never received a sequel, and its cult status has plenty to…
With millions of subscribers and an ever-growing world of content to explore, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has struck a chord with the larger MMO community — and it shows no signs of relenting. In fact, Square Enix revealed today that its upcoming expansion, Heavensward, will debut on June 23rd of this year. It…
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