Nintendo Announces Completely Bonkers New Game That Turns Your Photos Into Minigames
Pictonico! is due out at the end of May as a freemium mobile game
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Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi praises AI slop trailer for a FF6 remake, earns himself a light ribbing from battle designer on the first 2 games
If there’s one thing that the rise in AI slop has ‘given’ us, aside from the existential dread and CEOs pushing the brave new future no matter how many studios need to be shut down to make it happen, it’s…
At last, The Bullet Heaven genre – popularised by hits like Vampire Survivors – has been sanctioned by Steam
The bullet heaven genre, poplarised by relatively new hits like Vampire Survivors, finally has a dedicated tag on Steam. Read more
Microsoft launches Xbox Player Voice portal to listen closely to player feedback, fans immediately ask for “great game exclusives”
It’s been roughly three months since Asha Sharma took over Xbox, and changes to corporate and business direction haven’t stopped coming. From scrapping the “This Is an Xbox” ad campaign to dropping Game Pass prices in exchange for new Call…
Steam’s NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of “more descriptive” ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp
Valve have revealed a round of changes to the tags which can be applied to games on the Steam store. The ones designed to give you a brief idea of the genres or themes you’re in for if you opt…
CI Games and Epic Games terminate Lords of the Fallen II publishing deal
The agreement would have seen the upcoming sequel made available on PC exclusively through the Epic Game Store.
The Da Vinci Code was ahead of its time in one brilliant way
In 2003, author Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code, the second entry in his Robert Langdon trilogy after 2000’s Angels and Demons. The novel bolsters its murder-mystery framework with speculative retellings of religious myth, such as the legend of…
ARC Raiders patch 1.29.9 notes: Nomadic Envoy trader, new grenade launcher, and durability adjustments
ARC Raiders patch 1.29.9 introduces a new trader, Ermal. Designed for endgame players, Ermal offers unique rewards for your high-value ARC drops. The patch also introduces a new grenade launcher and adjusts durability on several weapons, following player feedback. Here’s…
Microsoft continues to build towards a passwordless future by phasing out an authentication method that’s become ‘a leading source of fraud’
Everyone wants your data, so that means everyone would like you to make an account with them. I don’t know about you, but more accounts simply means more passwords I’m bound to forget—at least there’s multi-factor authentication methods like SMS…
Stardew Valley doesn’t have any microtransactions because Eric Barone values the player ‘more than the money I could squeeze out of everyone’
Stardew Valley celebrated its 10 year anniversary earlier this year, and after over a decade of supplying fans with feel good farming its creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has reflected over what keeps him happy and why the sim stays so…