“It was the worst game we ever sold”. Yesterday, we published our interview with Bruce Lowry, the former vice president of sales at Nintendo from 1981 to 1986. In the interview, Lowry shared his insights into what it was like launching the NES in North America, told us of his regret of leaving Nintendo to…
Last week, someone reportedly threw an incendiary device at OpenAI chief Sam Altman’s house. Though Altman reports “it bounced off the house and no one got hurt”, he has taken to his blog to share his thoughts on the incident. Altman initially lays out his beliefs. He claims that “working towards prosperity for everyone” is…
Video game music has the unmistakable ability to trigger memories even decades after the game was played. The coin chime in Pac-Man became an instantly memorable hit in the 1980s. These sounds don’t simply invoke memories of playing games in arcades. They changed the emotional gaming landscape and made everyone unable to forget those social…
The European Commission (EC) has opened a ‘call for evidence‘ (via LWN.net) to inform the “European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy.” In other words, it’s looking for experts and relevant parties to help it figure out how to push towards open source software. This has the SteamOS-loving and Linux-pining part of myself getting all excitable on…
It’s been a whole year since we launched PS4 Pro – how times flies! If you’ve just picked up a PS4 Pro and a 4K TV, or maybe you’re thinking about taking the plunge over the holidays, you’re probably on the hunt for as much 4KTV-friendly content as possible. So the PlayStation.Blog team put together…
There’s life in the old dog yet. The Wii U GamePad is surely one of Nintendo’s most contentious innovations. On one hand, it offered asymmetric gameplay possibilities that had never been witnessed before, and also allowed you to play games on the controller when the main TV was being used for something else—a feature which,…
Team Ugly is a studio or workshop, as we like to call it, formed by four entrepreneurs and developers blinded by the romanticism of the indie game world. It all started more than five years ago when Gerard Singuerlin, the first stray bullet of this story, was attempting to transform some napkin drawings into a video…
It’s another bump in the road for beleaguered heist-shooter Payday 3 as Starbreeze Studios has delayed an update that was expected to go live today and says it also needs to do yet more server maintenance. “We’re extremely sorry for this, but we’ve chosen to delay today’s planned patch to ensure its stability,” Starbreeze tweeted….
We’re almost at the bottom of the volcano. After descending into the fiery depths, fighting through waves of Fire Prelates, Finger Creepers, and Flame Chariots, the ancient altar is finally in sight, promising us the ability to forge our own legendary weapons. Just as we approach the special smithing table, a Magma Wyrm bursts from…
Phar too hard? The original Hollow Knight was no pushover, but it’s safe to say that its sequel is hitting a whole new level of difficulty. You only need look on social media to see that some folks have been struggling with their journey through Pharloom. A few are even going so far as to…