Sjoerd De Jong, an Unreal Engine expert from its early days who joined Epic Games full-time in 2014—first as “lead evangelist” and most recently as the senior director of an unannounced project—has left the company, he revealed last week in a LinkedIn post. “After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games…
Through the parting clouds, a vision of your future has arrived. This week, the Tetris® 99 game on the Nintendo Switch system joins forces with the action-packed Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition game. Prepare yourself for the Tetris 99 14th MAXIMUS CUP event, which summons all the Titans of Tetris to the field of battle. […]
Funcom recently announced that Dune: Awakening will release on May 20, and alongside that news, the publisher wants you to know that sandworms are independent annelids that obey their own rules and don’t need you to decide when and where they go places or what they do when they get there. In a community FAQ,…
Ubisoft’s Gods and Monsters, which is coming to Nintendo Switch, was revealed at E3 last year and there was understandably a lot of excitement around the announcement as many were quick to point out the similarities between it and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We’re now way past its initial release date…
Fuji TV’s series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex via Automaton). During his years at Capcom he was producer on Final Fight and Street Fighter 2, as well as racking up credits on Darkstalkers and Resident Evil games, among others….
In August 2024, Bandai Namco announced that it was shuttering service and cancelling Europe and US launch plans for Blue Protocol, its anime action MMO that had been playable in Japan since 2023. Players grieved. They wept. In January, they danced in their virtual world’s final moments as Blue Protocol went offline forever. You can…
Troika’s Temple of Elemental Evil came out in 2003, adapting an old school tabletop adventure into videogame form while being remarkably true to the then-current third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons rules. It’s pretty good! I like the bits where you doss around the village of Hommlet and the piratical cove of Nulb more…
Falcon Age is a game about Ara bonding, hunting, fighting, and reclaiming her land from automated colonizers. It’s available tomorrow from PlayStation Store for PS4 in non-VR or if you have a PS VR you can pet a falcon in virtual reality. We spent a lot of time getting the falcon to look and feel…
AMD’s FSR 3 upscaling technology is set to make its debut tomorrow, on September 29, or September 30 depending on where you live in the world. AMD’s Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming solutions and marketing made the announcement today via Twitter (or X if you really must call it that). FSR 3, or…
The holiday pickups. The final full week of 2024 has been and gone, and by the time you’re reading this, it might even be 2025 where you are — hello from the past! Anyway, in the UK, we’ve got the final full 2024 results for the boxed charts, and it’s another solid and predictable week…