With PCs being ever more capable and expensive, lots of people are using their rigs for more than just gaming. Video editing, offline rendering, and generative AI are great ways to make a little extra on the side and use your computer to its fullest. However, these also need lots of RAM, more than games…
Yep, we’re confused too. It has been a strange few months in Nintendo land. There hasn’t been a Direct since August, but a series of strange announcements have been trickling out of the House of Mario nonetheless. There was Alarmo, Nintendo Music, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, and more random NSO drops than we can…
I’ve made cozy gaming most of my personality in the past several years, but even I sometimes feel numb to the aesthetically-mandated cotton candy color palette. Sometimes I want to play a cozy game while giving my eyes a little rest from the pastel apocalypse. I also just like trying to slip in some chill…
Afterlife sim. There’s no shortage of games where you have to cleanse a town of ghosts. But do those games let you cleanse the ghosts themselves? Spirittea does. Canadian solo developer Cheesemaster brings us this Japanese- and Korean-inspired afterlife sim. It’s a brew of Spirited Away, Stardew Valley, and other things that mostly goes down…
During today’s State of Play, Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja announced Nioh 3, the latest installment of our dark fantasy action RPG series taking place inside Japan’s historically turbulent Sengoku period. To help celebrate the game’s announcement, we’re releasing a free limited-time demo of Nioh 3 exclusively on PlayStation 5, available today! Whether you’re…
Zero dawn. Can you believe we’re now less than 40 days away from the launch of the Switch 2? Gosh, it feels like yesterday we were sat peering at blurry photos of the motherboard, and now here we are. In the meantime, we have some games to play, but let’s first recap some of the…
Auspicious tidings, intrepid wanderers! I’ve come to shed light on all things Shiren! In anticipation of the July 26 launch of Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate on PS Vita, I’d like to take a brief stroll down memory lane as well as focus on some interesting features in…
It wouldn’t be a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired RPG unless it featured character creation, and Larian’s character creators have certainly improved over time. While Baldur’s Gate 3 is easily the studio’s best in terms of sheer fidelity, Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a bit more personality—cannibal elves, playable skeleton versions of each race, and so on….
Whenever I disappear back into the wood from whence I came, I’m always greeted by the glower of a Ring doorbell on the porch of my childhood home. Sure, it’s pretty neat the app notifies us with snapshots of curious deer on the family’s doorstep, but I can’t quite banish the question of how easy…
Dan Marshall was 24 when he picked up C++ for Dummies. “I’ve left this too late,” he thought. “I’m too past-it to be learning a new skill like programming. Damn it, why didn’t I learn this in school?” Two decades on, Marshall has led the development of no fewer than three games with 80+% review…