I’ve already used my quota for Gen Z slang for the year in the headline—as a 33-year-old man, I’ll keep things age-appropriate from here on out. And nothing has made me feel older than this programming language my colleague just put me onto that exclusively uses Gen Z slang and was dreamt up by Anthropic’s…
Japanese physical video game software and hardware sales tracker Famitsu has published the charts for the period beginning 14th December, 2020 to 20th December, 2020. It seems clear that the Switch is the gaming platform of choice in the land of the rising sun, after smartphones. The Nintendo Switch family of consoles has shifted an…
PS5 is here, and with it comes a new way to capture your unforgettable moments in gaming: the Create button. To celebrate, we’ve given Share of the Week a bit of a makeover, with a new logo and updated submission hashtag, opening up our weekly highlight series to welcome a new generation of players. Starting…
When Goldilocks wasn’t breaking local wildlife laws and putting her life in peril by trying to sleep with dangerous creatures (interestingly, in an early version of the story, all the bears were male), she was probably a PC gamer. A streamer, in fact, given her choice of ostentatious outerwear. I have no evidence to back…
Online gaming site Video Games Chronicles has published a juicy rumour this afternoon. The site says that Nintendo has big plans to celebrate Super Mario’s 35th Anniversary and plans to re-release a number of classic Mario games for the Nintendo Switch platform. The site has also heard that this will include a brand new Paper…
The gods created man, and man created stories. In the beginning there was Romancing SaGa, the first entry in a classic 16-bit RPG trilogy. The beloved adventure was later remade on PS2, titled Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song-. On December 9, Red Art Games will release an enhanced version of the PS2 game on PS5 and…
Borderlands 4 has had a complicated launch. Initial critical response was fairly positive, but some sites—including PC Gamer—didn’t receive pre-release code and were unable to offer their own opinions at launch. And once the clock hit go time, early Steam reviews were dominated by reports of performance issues and crashes that we experienced in our…
Who owns the game? French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Valve demanding that it alter its policy to allow for the resale and transfer of PC games on Steam, the company’s digital platform. The ban on the resale of games through Steam is one of a dozen clauses the association says…
Now with added Pikmin. After almost 20 years of ‘New’ games, 2D Mario was in desperate need of a shakeup, and in 2023, Super Mario Bros. Wonder did just that. Equal parts throwback to the glory days of the SNES and something entirely fresh, the platformer was a delight from start to finish, and while…
It’s rare, but occasionally a bit of videogame or movie news breaks not with a well-manicured trailer or a press release emailed to a media outlet. Like, sometimes a gamer will just ask a movie star a direct question on Twitter and the movie star honestly answers. Rarely. Very rarely. But it happens. Like today,…