As the games industry marches towards ever-higher game prices and $80 Mario Karts, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal than getting a pile of games that'll only cost you around 22 cents each. Over at Itch.io, you can pick up the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle, which'll get you 74 indie games for less than 20 bucks—all the proceeds of which will go to a good...
French studio Sandfall Interactive is enjoying a well-deserved victory lap as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the company’s first game since its founding in 2020, sells like hotcakes — though maybe crepes would be the more appropriate baked good — and garners positive reviews and word of mouth. A lot of this success revolves around its active turn-based battles and engaging story, but it’s hard to deny the part that Clair...
World of Warcraft senior game director Ion Hazzikostas dropped a bomb in a Blizzard broadcast today, one that many suspected would someday hit: At an undetermined point in the future, WoW will stop allowing add-ons to read combat events or auras.Currently, WoW's most popular mods, including all damage meters, boss encounter information systems such as Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs, and almost all WeakAuras (mini-mods made using the WeakAura framework)...
Even before I fully became an anime fan, I knew about The Rose of Versailles, one of the greats of the shoujo genre. I’d seen pictures of gender-nonconforming aristocrat Oscar François de Jarjayes in her French military uniform, luxurious blond hair tumbling over her svelte shoulders. Even without knowing much about who she was, I was intrigued by her striking looks and gender ambiguity. I never read Riyoko Ikeda’s 1972...
Outrage on a Reddit forum is hardly a novel concept. Outrage at AI is likewise not exactly a major newsflash. But in a new twist, the latest unrest is a direct result of Redditors being subject to an AI-powered experiment without their knowledge (via New Scientist).Reportedly, researchers from the University of Zurich have been secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion. Members of r/ChangeMyView, a subreddit that...
Game delays are a common part of life in videogames, but game advances—where a game's release date is moved up instead of back? Not so much. It happens, but it's a rarity—in most cases, developers are hammering away on games practically right up to the moment of their release. So eyebrows understandably went up yesterday when Gearbox moved up the release of Borderlands 4 by more than a week, from...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has already exceeded expectations as a debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive. It’s got lovable characters, memorable enemies, and a dynamic combat system. The story is also incredibly propulsive. In this dark fantasy, an evil godlike being called the Paintress disappears the citizens of Lumiére once they reach a certain age. You play as the members of Expedition 33, a group who hopes to kill the Paintress...
Get ready to light up the stage like never before – Smash Drums is launching on PlayStation VR2 on May 15, and it’s more than just an upgrade. We’ve fine-tuned the experience to take full advantage of PS VR2’s power — from razor-sharp visuals with eye-tracked foveated rendering and native 120fps gameplay, to immersive headset haptics and adaptive triggers that bring the action to life. Hang on to your sticks....
Tame dinosaurs to survive an island paradise, mix and match card decks to win big and head to the far-future for some retro shooting action with May’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup. Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun will be available to PlayStation Plus members from May 6. View and download image Download the image close Close Download this image Ark: Survival Ascended | PS5 Are you ready...
Which Marvel shows are canon Marvel Cinematic Universe and which aren’t? The fan debate rages on unchecked, but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige semi-answered the question when he implied that the multiverse business that’s dominated the MCU for the last few years makes everything semi-canon, somewhere. Still, some Marvel shows — particularly the Disney Plus run beginning with 2021’s WandaVision, the point where Marvel Studios stopped licensing its characters all...