Since the series’ 30th anniversary celebrations last year, Bandai Namco has been doling out remasters of the Tales Of games at a steady clip. Last year Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xillia both got the remaster treatment, and in February we got Tales of Berseria. The first two were welcome: both were PlayStation…
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have sent out a statement today to press to inform them about what has happened regarding the Pokemon Sword & Shield leaks which emerged on social media in early November 2019. Please read the full statement from both Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, below. “In early November, Nintendo identified a…
Back in my day there were only three channels on TV and one Minecraft update per year. For years, Mojang’s schedule revolved around the annual title update crammed with new mobs, new biomes, blocks, and enemies. That mindset changed in 2021, its general manager says, when the Caves & Cliffs update grew so ambitious that…
Shiren The Wanderer didn’t quite invent the traditional roguelike genre, but this long-running, rarely localized Japanese series sure as heck came to define it: Environments have to be grid-based Everything must be scavenged from monster-filled dungeons. And above all else, a true Shiren game (and thus a true old school roguelike) must be challenging, and…
Back in 2015, Until Dawn arrived on PlayStation 4, and we all fell (and screamed) in love with this instant classic. Now, we’re beyond excited to finally announce an all-new sequel for PS5… and if that’s not enough, we’ve got the world’s first trailer, right here, just for you. Play Video Until Dawn 2 is…
You ever thought the Rubik’s Cube needs a 21st-century iPad kid glow up? Me neither, and yet the $299 WowCube is now officially available to preorder. The Rubik’s WowCube comes with 24 LCD screens and an AI-based application that tracks the time you’ve spent playing with it, alongside the number of twists you’ve made. The…
‘Changeable Guardian Estique’ arrives 2026 on PC & consoles. The Nintendo Famicom/NES homebrew Changeable Guardian Estique is heading to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S next year, its publisher AMATA Games has revealed. Developed by Takayuki Komabayashi and his company, Cat Hui Trading, the 8-bit-style shoot ’em up was originally published on…
The game industry is—to use the lightest possible language—in an interesting spot. While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper, we’ve had a few consecutive years of brutal layoffs and studio closures, as well as all of the knock-on impacts that the advent of generative AI (and the subsequent and boneheaded insistence that it’s…
I thought I’d heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was wrong. AI code review platform Graphite has published a blog detailing its use of “dogfooding” to help develop its onboarding process, a particularly ugly term that apparently equates to “being forced to eat your own dogfood”….
There’s a hubris to reviewing a unanimous classic decades after the fact—this mostly applies to guys on YouTube not named Mandalore. Yeah buddy, sure, you’ve got something to say about Earthbound that nobody cottoned on to before. You really couldn’t have said it in less than five hours? Thank god, then, that I’m not charged…