It’s a big day for World of Warcraft secret finders. The final steps of a puzzle that took them over a year to solve have been discovered. Specifically, the 11th and 12th orbs that surround the mysterious Felcycle mount have been lit and the secret is, well, no longer a secret. A little over a…
Goodbye, Mr. E. I thought I knew what to expect from Yoshi and the Mysterious Book when Nintendo invited me to a recent hands-on preview ahead of the game’s launch next month. I had played a good chunk of Crafted World and Woolly World (still waiting on that Switch port, Nintendo) in years gone by,…
“GameBoy Link Cable without a cable?”. The 8BitMods VMU Pro is one of the most impressive aftermarket memory cards we’ve seen in a while. Not only does it offer almost unlimited storage for your game data, it also boasts a colour display, MP3 playback and support for a host of emulators, one of which allows…
“I’ll likely have to hand over the work to someone else”. Sega veteran Yosuke Okunari has revealed to Famitsu that he’s creating a massive in-house database of all the company’s games – and, once it’s complete, he wants to make all of the games playable (thanks, TheGamer). “For the past few years, I’ve been working…
Pain and pleasure. Hollow Knight: Silksong didn’t need to do much; it just needed to be ‘more Hollow Knight‘. That’s a huge task in itself; a slightly bigger, slightly better version of an already amazing, genre-defining game. But it’s clear that, after seven years of refining and perfecting and toiling, Team Cherry wanted more than…
I’m Colin Harvey, Lead Writer on London Studio’s ode to action cinema, Blood and Truth. In the past I’ve worked across different media such as books, comics and audio. My games work includes writing and narrative design for Rebellion’s Sniper Elite 4, as well as uncredited work on The Getaway 2 and the ‘lost classic’…
The US Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into “AI chatbots acting as companions,” seeking to determine how companies including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and X “measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens.” The rise of AI-powered chatbots has been accompanied by disturbing and sometimes horrific stories about…
Reverse card. Today, 31st January, is National Backwards Day in North America (no, we didn’t know it was a thing either). It’s a day for doing things with a 180° twist, a quick Google told us, whether that’s wearing a shirt the wrong way round like the kids do — maybe? — or moonwalking over…
“I call it the GB Bridge”. An in-development emulator has been revealed which “ports” existing Game Boy games to the GBA, taking advantage of the additional screen space, colours and resolution. It’s the work of renowned Game Boy game enhancer Iván Delgado (@toruzz), who reveals he dropped the first hint about the emulator six years…
Square Enix has confirmed this morning that Nintendo Switch owners in Asia will be able to pick up a physical edition of the beloved Final Fantasy IX. This edition will be arriving in Asia this winter and if you desperately need it then you can always use an import site such as Amazon Japan or…