Tonight at The Game Awards, Prime TV’s Fallout series walked away with more than just some scavenged scrap metal and a handful of caps. The show took home the award for Best Adaptation, and on hand to accept it was director Jonathan Nolan, Ella Purnell, who starred as Vault Dweller Lucy, and Todd Howard, who…
At today’s Day of the Devs stream, Sithe Ncube, producer at South African game studio Nyamakop, shared a sobering statistic. “A French government report estimated that 90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage is in the possession of Western collections,” Ncube said. “That is millions upon millions of deeply important cultural, spiritual, and personal artifacts—including human…
Samus’ new mission arrives next week. A week out from the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Switch 2 and Switch, the Entertainment Software Rating Board has shared its official rating summary of the game. It once again highlights the title’s ‘T’ for “Teen” rating, as the game features “animated blood and violence”….
A little while back, I decided to make some shorts that show parts of a cover, backside and the game and see if you can guess what it is before the reveal at the end. I never thought I would ever do 100 of them. I finally posted the 100th video (see below). It has…
Fangamer’s videogame tie-ins have drawn our attention multiple times in the past, from the Stardew Valley boxed edition complete with farm-ownership deed, to the angry psychic squid from Into the Breach in huggable plushie form. They recently released a fancy vinyl edition of the soundtrack to Myst sequel Riven, but this time the response has…
As someone who grew up with an Atari 2600 it sure is nice to be able to talk about an upcoming Atari game with positive anticipation. That’s how I feel about Lunar Lander Beyond, a forthcoming sequel to a game so old it’s developed a pot belly and taken up jogging. Atari’s original Lunar Lander…
Painfully high graphics card pricing has become a seemingly permanent norm and at least some of that comes down to the impact of the burgeoning AI boom. Are SSD and system memory prices poised to go the same way? According to analysis by Tom’s Hardware, the unfortunate answer is yes. Tom’s claims that, “nearly every…
We live in an age of state-sponsored cyber warfare, one where conflicts have a parallel and intangible digital battlefield. The most obvious manifestation of this is propaganda, good old information warfare, with things like photos, videos and records being obtained and then framed and circulated online. The other side of it—concentrated cyber attacks on infrastructure,…
The game was first announced in 2017. If you pre-ordered Metroid Prime 4 on Amazon multiple years ago, you might want to check the status of your order. Amazon customers have been receiving emails recently, confirming the cancellation of this item “due to a lack of availability” and providing refunds. A user on the Metroid…
The Sims 4 is now well into its nostalgia-fueled “Motherlode season” celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary and also revealing the next Sims 4 expansion pack: Businesses & Hobbies. After the Life & Death pack at the end of last year we’re apparently in a double word plus ampersand expansion era—who do I have to pander…