At the same time as playing Taco Tom 2, I have been reading the Bob Mortimer autobiography, and I get the sneaking suspicion that Bob would like Taco Tom 2. There’s a kinship in the gleeful childishness; a surreal madness. Experiencing them both at the same time is enough to splutter my brain out of
Month: July 2022
When Rogue Lords became available to review, we were feeling roguelike fatigue. Our calendar on the wall with ‘Days since the last roguelike’ was only showing a week or so, and we were hankering for something with a beginning, middle and end. Perhaps a story to lead us by the hand. But for all our
It’s a new era for the world of Formula 1, with some of the biggest changes seen in the sport in four decades shaking up not only the status quo, but also the spines of the drivers as teams wrestle to rein in the engineering quirks of this year’s new cars. Codemasters has followed suit
Almost a decade ago, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle had been released. A remaster of the game, which is called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle R, is coming soon. That said, publisher Bandai Namco and developer CyberConnect2 have released a new trailer that features characters from part 4, part 6 and part 8
Bandai Namco has announced this morning that the popular Monster Rancher series is coming to the west later this year on the Nintendo Switch family of systems. The game is officially titled Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher which sees the Monster Rancher series team up with the iconic Japanese superhero Ultraman and will see you raising
The approval ratings for the various Nintendo directors has been revealed for 2022 and most of them have slightly declined over last year, especially those for Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa, who had a 96.86% approval rating in 2021 which has slipped to 88.32% in 2022. The votes were cast during Nintendo’s 82nd Annual General Meeting
Square Enix and developer Lancarse has announced the worldwide release date for their upcoming strategy RPG, The DioField Chronicle, and it is coming to the Nintendo Switch on 22nd September. Prospective purchasers will also be pleased to hear that a demo will be available on the eShop from 10th August giving you a chance to
Nintendo has been spending most of this year releasing new profile pictures, backgrounds, and borders that Nintendo Switch Online members can get using gold coins that they can earn. These rewards are usually themed around various games, such as Animal Crossing New Horizons and The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. Well, a user
Audio player loading… God of War Ragnarok’s release date was reportedly going to be revealed today. But there’s been a change in plans. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier who says a God of War Ragnarok update was on the cards for today. According to a tweet (opens in new tab) he put out earlier
Audio player loading… The first non-promotional picture of Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 has been released, showing us just how streamlined the upcoming VR headset really is. Developer Bit Planet Games uploaded a picture of a PSVR 2 system on Twitter. Although the studio was quick to delete the post, likely for breaking an internal NDA
Samsung TVs just got a great new way to play Xbox games – and you don’t even need a console to play them. By downloading the Xbox app from the newly launched Samsung Gaming Hub platform, you’re now able to stream Xbox Series X|S games via the cloud. The only catch, as detailed in the
Audio player loading… Whoever runs EA’s Twitter account has royally plowed the hornet’s nest with a tweet dismissing single-player games. Let’s bear in mind the stable of amazing single-player titles under the EA umbrella, to appreciate the true boldness of the tweet. There’s Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and long-running classic, The Sims, to name a
Audio player loading… Ubisoft has announced plans to use in-game events in games such as Riders Republic and Skull and Bones to raise awareness around the impact that climate change has on our planet. The plans were developed as part of Ubisoft’s participation in the Playing for the Planet Alliance’s annual Green Game Jam, which
Ubisoft are switching off online services for several older singleplayer games, including Anno 2070, Far Cry 3, Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. For several of those games, that means that as of September 1st, “the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable,” according to an Ubisoft support page.
I can’t tell you how much I’d prefer to ignore brandter, in which corporate Twitter accounts pretend to be people with terrible senses of humour. Alas, in this instance I cannot. Yesterday EA tweeted a terrible meme and related it to single-player games, and in the process drew the ire of several current and former
Final Fantasy 14’s next patch, 6.2, is scheduled to launch in late August. Among its many additions will be a new “Island Sanctuary”, a personal island where players can gather materials, build facilities and look after creatures. It sounds like a slice of Stardew.
You can once again buy the fan-created ScummVM release of 1997’s Blade Runner adventure game via GOG. The fan version was removed from the store a little over a week ago when Nightdive Studios released their own Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, then swiftly bundled together with that remaster when people complained.
YouTuber Bryan Paul of channel PSVR Without Parole, who’s got a pretty good track record when it comes to PSVR news and leaks, has claimed to have heard that the PSVR 2 cable can be detached and replaced. As we’ve previously learned, the end of the cable that goes into the PS5 console is USB-C while