Final Fantasy is about as Japanese as Yakitori, karaoke, and knowing full well that tentacles don’t belong in animated series. Fans of the franchise over in Japan recently voted for their favourite games and characters in the franchise, and guess what? Final Fantasy X came out on top.
The latest patch for Cyberpunk 2077 finally mutes that annoying AI whenever you get near one of his pilfered taxis.
It’s time to crack open a fresh LP of Boyz II Men, because we’ve once again come to the end of the road for a piece of the gaming industry’s legacy. Last week it was reported that Sony would be pulling the plug on its PS3, PS Vita, and PSP online stores, news which Sony confirmed last night. The PS3 and PSP stores will go offline on July 2 this year, with the PS Vita following its brothers into obscurity on August 27.
Logitech’s G Pro X is an admittedly expensive piece of hardware with a singular focus on gaming, but there’s no denying that it’s a superb piece of hardware for anyone who’s a fan of feeling their gameplay through their fingertips.
Undoubtedly one of Nintendo’s best ever pure handheld devices, the 3DS leaves behind a legacy of excellence and triumph that few other systems could hope to beat, let alone replicate. In the video game Hall of Fame, it deserves a section all to itself for paving the way for Nintendo to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
YouTuber DIY Perks got their hands on the wonderfully symmetrical PS5 Digital Edition (the one that comes wothout a disc drive baby bump) and set to work removing the boring plastic bits, replacing them with a more exotic material: Brass.
Having been in production for over a decade now, GSC Game World’s return to the very real nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl looks like a dirty and grubby game of survival. Plus it has really bad teeth for its NPCs, but on purpose!
Microsoft held an ID@Xbox showcase over the weekend, which must have clearly been put together by Zack Snyder as it ran for a gargantuan number of hours. Reports of a gaming industry follow-up, Zack Snyder’s Nintendo Direct, are still mere hearsay at this point. Anyway, dozens of games were shown off from a number of smaller developers, but the key takeaway here is that 22 of those titles will be coming to Xbox Game Pass in the near future.
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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