Wo close, yet wo far. The Soulslike genre has started strong on Switch 2, with the likes of Lies of P and Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition thriving on Nintendo’s console with minimal drawbacks. The same cannot be said, however, for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Complete Edition. This port of Team Ninja’s Sekiro-inspired action game –…
New York has a New Problem. Tengo Project, purveyors of fine pixelated fare, are currently developing the next title in the studio’s range of dazzling, modern-day remasters. As announced by publisher Winning Entertainment Group, the studio’s next release will be Cybernetic Attack Final Mission, an updated edition of the classic 8-bit shmup Final Mission. Originally…
With Persona 4 Revival giving my favourite game a modern-day makeover, I was hoping Atlus would use it as an opportunity to reintroduce features that didn’t make the cut the first time around. You know, like a certain romance between protagonist Yu Narukami and his bestie Yosuke Hanamura. Both English and Japanese voiced dialogue was…
“No AI was used for the coding of this game”. The 3DO hardware has something of a complicated legacy. Developed and conceived by The 3DO Company’s CEO, Trip Hawkins, who had risen to fame as the Electronic Arts’ original founder, it took a slightly different approach from the other consoles available at the time. Rather…
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…
With Fable (it’s just called Fable, but it’s technically Fable 4) set to release on February 23 next year, we finally have its system requirements. And for a big budget game launching in 2027, they’re not too bad. That’s according to the newly updated Fable FAQ, which says you will need an Intel i7 6850K…
A thing that often happens in this line of work is: a developer or PR person enthusiastically trying to convince you that a not-especially-interesting game is actually incredibly innovative and exciting. The Gamescom demo for Nekome: Nazi Hunter is the first time I have been in the reverse position: I thought the game was interesting,…
“I’m not making this up. It really is this insane”. Arxel Tribe’s point-and-click adventure Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen hardly got pulses racing when it launched on PC in 1998. While it sold over 600,000 copies, contemporary reviewers largely savaged it, with IGN even calling it “abysmal at best” in a 2.7/10 review. Like…
A new co-op king? The review embargo for Orbitals has lifted, so we’re starting to see a bunch of verdicts making their way online ahead of its Switch 2 launch on 3rd September 2026. Now, we thought it was a cracking co-op experience, and so we awarded Orbitals a score of 9/10. Here’s a snippet…
The MSI Crosshair 16 Max HX E2W is in many ways the polar opposite of the other MSI laptop I recently tested, the Stealth 16 AI+ B3W. The latter is an ultra-expensive, sleek and subtle machine that limits its power for the sake of thermals, efficiency, and form factor. Not so with the Crosshair: it’s…