Maybe it’s just years and years of games like Fallout and Dying Light and Metro, plus a few decades of movies like Mad Max that take place after some civilization-shattering calamity… but I’m just a bit burned out on post-apocalyptic wastelands. Bleak, barren landscapes. Ruined buildings and rusted metal. Grubby survivors wearing tattered clothes. I’ve…
Including all ports and DLC. The upcoming ‘Definitive’ Switch version of Xenoblade Chronicles X has gotten us all excited about not just the Wii U gem coming in from the cold, but about the wider series in general. Tetsuya Takahashi’s baby has grown and flourished throughout the Switch generation to such an extent that ‘Operation…
CES is becoming more of an automotive show than anything else. Every year there’s more car companies and more car demos. This year was no exception. The PC industry really needs to have its own show. Thankfully, there are still plenty of nuggets to be found and ASUS showed off some goodies this year. ROG…
O.Gat reportedly fuming right now. Somebody find a way to distract Akira Nishitani, and fast. The former Capcom developer is apparently getting itchy coding fingers, tweeting out some craziness about rebalancing 1994’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo – globally recognised as the fairest and least broken fighter in history. Nishitani – whose previous design work…
Credits include Master of Orion, Conquest of the New World and Castles II. Writer, board game designer and video game developer Alan Emrich has passed away at the age of 65, we’re sad to report. His death was reported on the ConsimWorld forums (thanks, Game Developer). During his career, Amrich penned multiple strategy guides, founded…
Today saw the introduction of the final character for Fighter Pass 1, who as you have seen, is Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The second Fighter Pass has been announced and will be available for pre-purchase on 28th January, which is the same day as Byleth comes to Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The Fighter…
State of Play returns Thursday, September 3 with two broadcasts airing back-to-back. First, tune in for a new State of Play featuring updates and announcements from PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners, concluding with an extended look at the vast world of Final Fantasy VII Revelation from our friends at Square Enix. Immediately following, stay…
If you know your noise rock from your industrial, your ambient noise from harsh noise wall, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy the chaotic screeches of an ethernet cable plugged into a Eurorack module. If not, you might find it a little cool anyway, like I do. As spotted by Hackaday, creator Wenzellabs recently showed…
PlayStation Now is the first and only console game subscription service that uses cloud technology to deliver an unprecedented breadth of games through streaming and downloading. Today, I am truly pleased to announce new updates to the service that take our subscription gaming efforts to the next level. Starting today, PS Now will be offered…
The closest I ever came to ascending to godhood was on Christmas day in 2003. I was nine and a half years old, and I had been given a weapon. Beyblade was at the height of its popularity in my hometown, and I’d asked my parents for an imported Driger V2 from a website selling…