Indiedeed. Ah yes, just when you thought October couldn’t get any busier! Nintendo’s next Indie World Showcase is right around the corner, promising 15 minutes of news and announcements on all those incredible indies heading to Switch 1 and 2. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Rayman Legends Retold is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro on December 3, and Astro Bot’s iconic design is featured in the game as an exclusive costume, bringing the iconic platformer pairing full circle after Rayman made a cameo in Astro Bot (2024). The PS5-exclusive Astro Bot costume in Rayman Legends Retold will…
The mass effect of mass affects. Last week, legendary RPG studio BioWare announced that it was shutting up shop as part of EA’s latest round of layoffs. It was one of many studios hit by cuts from the company on the same day, which supposedly wiped out around 400 jobs. One week on, and several…
“It’s still standing and looks nearly identical”. The Nintendo Entertainment System is an iconic piece of gaming history that set its parent company up for global success at a time when the situation in North America’s future was anything but assured. The 1983 video game crash had dented retail and consumer confidence in console gaming,…
(Image credit: Pearl Abyss) Crimson Desert’s first Charting the Unknown DLC is releasing imminently, despite its initial delay, a mere seven months after the base game released, during which time Pearl Abyss has updated it with content relentlessly. Charting the Unknown releases on October 29 or 30 depending on where you live, but it’s a…
Xanadu! Xaaahaanadu! Some delightful news for classic RPG fans: Falcom’s PC Engine CD release of The Legend of Xanadu has received a brand-new fan-translation patch, courtesy of homebrewer “Elmer” and interpreter “SamIam”. The patch is now available to download from GitLab. Originally released for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM 2 in 1994, The Legend of…
Final Fantasy 14‘s “Evolved” jobs—that is, the new redesigns—feel like a much-needed way to shake the game out of its homogenisation rut, but they’re also a huge departure from the status quo, which is why Square Enix will be giving all the old jobs “Reborn” modes that function as they did before the switch-up for…
Most Overwatch fans will know its origins by now: as the recycled product made from the scraps of Project Titan, an MMO that was abruptly cancelled by Blizzard after seven years in development. After this, the team was just given six weeks to come up with a new pitch, something that could rival the revenue…
New experimental biomes! Blocks! Projectiles! Minecraft launched on Switch 2 earlier this week, and Mojang was quick to release a new update to make sure that everything is running as it should. The biggest additions this time around mainly fall into the ‘Experimental Game Drops’ category, with the Ice Cave biome, Ice Crystals, Icicles, and…
You can teach an old dog new tricks. Fans of Metroidvanias are used to the genre’s design conventions: obtain new abilities, and tantalisingly inaccessible areas of the map gradually open up. What sets Goodboy Galaxy apart is that, despite giving you upgrades, its design is ultimately far more interested in what happens when it takes…