Tencent’s ambitious attempt to build a rival to Grand Theft Auto appears to be floundering, as Last Sentinel developer Lightspeed LA has laid off 80 people following the publisher’s loss of confidence in the project. If you’re not familiar with Last Sentinel, that would be forgivable. The cyberpunk open world has been in development for…
On both Nintendo Switch & PS4. During its live stream earlier today, Hamster Corp, the company behind Arcade Archives, revealed the next Namco title being released as part of this year’s “Namco Month” will be the 1994 vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up NebulasRay. According to the announcement, it will be released for Nintendo Switch and PS4…
“We want to deliver a fantastic fighting game for Lynx fans”. Songbird Productions has announced that it is reviving a lost Atari Lynx game from the early 1990s called Ultravore. Created by Beyond Games (Battlewheels, Ultra Vortek), Ultravore is a one-on-one fighting game which was picked up by Songbird 25 years ago. Read the full…
In the brick of time. Lego’s snazzy new 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s classic Game Boy is finally in stores and, if you’ve been keeping up with reviews, it’s gone down a right treat with master builders thus far. Of course, being something of a master builder ourselves *shines counterfeit master builder badge*, we already got…
Michel Ancel, former developer behind the critically acclaimed Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil franchises, recently left Ubisoft and subsequently departed from all things video games. Amidst the accusations surrounding poor leadership, Ancel has taken to Instagram to address matters and has said that the accusations are not true. The news about his apparent actions…
Electronic Arts’ all-conquering EA Sports FC, the game formerly known as FIFA, can now with certainty be called a successful re-branding exercise. EA Sports FC has become a ubiquitous sight at all levels of matches, with it being near-impossible to watch a Premier League game in particular without having the logo tattooed on your eyes…
Get ’em while you can. We’re officially in the spooky season, and apart from an eShop sale, it appears Nintendo will also be offering some Halloween icons. These icons will be made available between 28th October and 4th November, and you’ll need to have a Switch Online membership to redeem them. As you can see,…
I love lockpicking minigames, especially when representatively they’re as far away from the act of lockpicking as possible. While I admire the elegance of Bethesda’s bobby-pin/screwdriver system seen in Fallout 4, I’m much more interested in the weirder solutions like Splinter Cell‘s baffling pin-flicking system, or Gothic Remake‘s absurdly elaborate sliding puzzle system. I love…
About a month away from the release of Until Dawn on PS4, we had the opportunity to sit down with Jason Graves, the man responsible for scoring Supermassive Games’ branching interactive horror. Jason is an award-winning composer boasting an impressive CV, including work on The Order: 1886, Evolve, Tomb Raider and the Dead Space series….
We mean Soccer, not that ‘other’ football. Updated with EA Sports FC 24. Enjoy! Football is the world’s most popular sport, from the elite level of child-like millionaires with dazzling skills and impressive diving techniques, to actual children on playgrounds using jumpers for goalposts. Being a football / soccer fan that owns a Switch, however,…