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Honogurashi no Niwa, a cozy but spooky new farming sim announced for launch in Japan back in July 2025, is coming to the west this Fall as Village in the Shade, developer Nippon Ichi has revealed.The western announcement trailer for Village in the Shade explores a hand-painted and exceptionally cozy Japanese mountain settlement called Kagatsu with fields ripe for the sowing. Nippon Ichi says you’ll plant crops, customize your pad, and get to know a variety of “intriguing characters.””Relax by the brook, watch the cherry blossoms with your neighbours, or take a stroll through town,” reads the official description. “With…
Ben Starr, the actor best known for his role as Final Fantasy 16 protagonist Clive Rosfield, had the misfortune of going up against the extremely challenging antagonist he plays in Hades 2, and he had such a tough time that he says he “hated” himself in that moment.Starr plays Prometheus in Hades 2, widely recognized as one of the hardest bosses in a game known for its brutal boss fights. In a recent interview with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, he admits to having been utterly entranced by Hades 2 but also incredibly frustrated by his own character.”There…
Like many people at companies preoccupied with discovering the next “goose that lays the golden egg”, Half-Life 2 and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw has been “poking around” with generative AI. He and a small team at Valve have been testing out different applications, in what Wolpaw assures us isn’t a “concerted” effort at implementing the soul-regurgitating, workforce-abrading gadgetry in any particular new game. Wolpaw’s current feeling is that generative AI isn’t very good at anything “creative”, like cracking jokes. But he does think Large Language Models could make for entertaining NPC voice reactions in games such as Grand Theft Auto…
Will Wright blazed through the early video game industry like a comet – he co-founded Maxis, created the very first SimCity, The Sims in 2000, and released the ultimate life sim Spore in 2008. Much more quietly, Wright has spent the last decade on an AI-enabled, psychoanalytic thing with huge ambitions and zero budget, but he’s determined to keep it breathing.”Kind of like Frankenstein,” Wright tells Vulture in a new profile. It’s called Proxi: Yesterday’s You Tomorrow, and Wright’s studio Gallium Studios revealed it at Game Developers Conference in 2018, though the idea of it has been nagging at Wright…
The Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless has been a long-time favourite mechanical keyboard of mine. That’s because of its highly functional, near-full-size layout, its smooth, lubricated switches, and just the sense that the entire package feels thoughtful and well-put-together. I tried looking for a deal for in in the UK, sadly to no avail, though our US pals will be happy to learn it’s currently $130 from Amazon US in their Spring Sale (that, for some strange reason, is happening over a week after the UK one ended).
Earlier this week, reports emerged that Sony was shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party studio led by Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran Jason Blundell. Today, Blundell confirmed the news on a Twitch stream hosted by another member of the Dark Outlaw Games team, JCbackfire.”We have to respect confidentiality so we can’t go into every gory detail,” Blundell said during the stream, as highlighted by Kotaku. Neither dev revealed much about the project, but JCbackfire did confirm that it was not a live service game.Despite promises for extensive live service games, Sony seems to have been backing away from…
Following Epic Games’ mass layoffs, a Fortnite producer has said that the devs left behind “cannot even fully understand” the sort of impact the job cuts will have on the game during this year and into the future.
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 is now streaming on Disney Plus, and the ending of the season premiere sets up an interesting dynamic between Matt Murdock and one of his arch-enemies, which star Charlie Cox says will lead to big things in the rest of the season.Before we continue, be forewarned we’ll be getting into some Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 spoilers, so turn back now if you haven’t watched it yet.In the final scene of the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Matt Murdock is unexpectedly saved from being executed at the hands…
High-resolution monitors have become a lot cheaper over recent years, in contrast to a most internal component types, which are currently in a race to see who can plunge us into financial destitution the fastest. It wasn’t that long ago that the 4K, 160Hz, 27in panel of the Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG would put it out of reach for anyone who didn’t have access to a sovereign wealth fund, yet here it is, discounted to just £319 / $299. That’s only about half what it would cost to buy a new graphics card capable of actually running 4K games.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Official Teaser | HBO Max – YouTube Watch On The first HBO Harry Potter trailer is here, and it’s nothing like the beloved film franchise… and we promise that’s a good thing.In the trailer, which you can watch above, we meet a sad, bullied Harry Potter who gets his hair crudely chopped off by Petunia Dursley… and it looks like, rather than jump right into his adventures at Hogwarts, we’re going to spend a bit more time in his hellish existence in the muggle realm at the hands of his aunt and uncle…