While either Sony or Microsoft will “struggle mightily”. DFC intelligence, a long-standing research and consulting firm for the video game industry, has projected that the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ will be the “clear winner” of the next console generation in its ‘2024 Video Game Market Report and Forecast’ (thanks, wccftech). The report states that the Switch…
“There’s pride in it for me”. Jeff Minter is, perhaps quite rightly, referred to as a legend within the gaming industry. His career following the founding of Llamasoft in 1982 has spawned dozens of the most unique and recognisable titles in existence, including Tempest 4000, Akka Arrh, Polybius, Attack of the Mutant Camels, and Gridrunner….
Modding project Tamriel Rebuilt’s quest to make the rest of Morrowind continues apace, even over two decades after it began. The team has just released Grasping Fortune, its biggest expansion yet, bringing with it the sprawling city of Narsis. As House Hlaalu capital, Narsis took years to put together and features over 600 interiors, which…
Another Friday heads up for you all, as we’ve recently been told by Saberman. That the previously announced Arcade to Amiga conversion of Irem’s classic 1982 scrolling shooter of ‘Moon Patrol’, has now been teased with the first alpha download for you to play test by JOTD and n09(music). For those of you who don’t remember…
We all know that if a company provides a service for free, then it’s being funded through things such as affiliate marketing, shopping links, or data scraping. The most common method is, of course, advertising, and it’s absolutely everywhere, though there’s one sector that’s yet to be really hit by it, and that’s AI. But…
Finding and fighting Monster Hunter Wilds’ unnatural monsters are, naturally, the game’s core appeal. But while you’re breaking the bones and carving the hides of these mythical beings, have you ever wondered: would a Rathlos actually move like that? Does Anjanath’s crazy bone structure actually have some basis in reality? Our latest series, Reality Check,…
It’s not a huge surprise because we saw this happen in 2024, but Prime Video’s Fallout series has once again led to a huge uptick in people playing the Fallout games on Steam. Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, and even Fallout 3 and the original Fallouts have essentially doubled their daily concurrent players on Steam…
Yes indieed. What’s that? You’re still catching up on the news from the last Direct? There’s no time for that! Nintendo has another showcase up its sleeve, an Indie World to be precise, and it’s right around the corner! Yes, Nintendo is keeping the presentations coming today, with the Indie World set to kick off…
Every other week we seem to get a tech CEO or some other bigwig telling us how great AI is and how revolutionary the AI era is going to be. But whenever they start talking about what exactly that will look like, I’m reminded of the frightening strength of historical variability and humanity’s incapability of…
During its first iteration, PowerWash Simulator had some of the best collaborations in videogames. Seriously, it’s up there with Fortnite, or at least it is in my opinion. But with its sequel comes new chances for crossovers, and it looks like the first stop in 2026 will be in the Land of Ooo, aka Adventure…