The irony has been pointed out many times: When game engine Unity revealed its new per-install fee last week, game developers were possibly the most united they’ve ever been—in disgust. Even developers who don’t use Unity expressed anger or criticized the unprecedented change of terms. Perhaps the best example of this game dev rallying occurred…
If you watched the incredible KPop Demon Hunters and thought, “Damn, I wish there were a game of this,” then allow me to introduce you to People of Note. It’s incredibly serendipitous that this musical RPG has been announced so soon after the animated movie took over the world. As seen at the PC Gaming…
I’ve had to contend with far fewer dicey data management situations than all that spy-fi I watched at an impressionable age led me to believe—just like quicksand, it’s just not a day-to-day thing I need to worry about. Well, TeamGroup has unveiled a portable SSD that’ll allow me to live out my youthful Mission: Impossible…
Japanese publication Famitsu has published its weekly video game software and hardware sales charts for the week of 25th January to 31st January 31, 2021. The highest new release this week is Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny which proved to be most popular on the Nintendo Switch, shifting 23,551 copies on the platform. Talking of…
Pushing the pedal to the metal The number of people who overclock their desktop PCs is growing, according to data found in the latest HWInsights Quarterly Report. We have no idea how HWInsights tracks such things, but apparently there was a 50 percent uptick in the annual growth of overclockers from the first quarter of…
Since we launched the micro-strategy game Kingdom Two Crowns, monarchs have been building their Kingdoms in the classic medieval and feudal Japan-inspired lands. While we have many ideas on new locations, especially historical settings, our first new setting since launch is inspired by a fan-favorite. Every year in the prequel title, Kingdom: New Lands, we…
Survival horror returns in an all new episodic adventure! Resident Evil Revelations 2 picks up right after Resident Evil 5 ends and tells the tale of Claire Redfield and Moira Burton, who have been abducted and imprisoned on an abandoned island facility. Upon getting a distress call from his daughter Moira, RE legend Barry Burton…
I love deckbuilders. I don’t have any children (at time of writing), but if I did, I would love my deckbuilders more. I’m not comfortable admitting how many hours I’ve spent slaying a certain spire. Odd, considering I’m actually proud to tell you that I’m coming up to 1000 hours in Monster Train. Yikes. 2023…
A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…