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David ‘Phreak’ Turley has confirmed that he’s no longer working as a game designer on League of Legends. In his patch 26.07 rundown video, the former LCS caster confirms that he’s stopped working on the MOBA directly and has instead transferred to another team within Riot. The 26.07 patch rundown will be his last video “for a while,” then, which some will lament, but others will no doubt rejoice over. Despite accruing a loyal fanbase during his time on the LCS broadcast, Phreak’s contributions to League of Legends as a game designer have left the community divided. Rightly or wrongly,…
Was Returnal too hard? That’s a question that Housemarque, the Finnish Sony first-party studio behind Resogun, Matterfall, and Super Stardust, wrestled with when developing its latest PlayStation exclusive, Saros.“For us, it was about not diluting the Returnal experience and actually just making sure that it could be more approachable to more people,” said creative director Gregory Louden.“The game is still going to kick you down. But the difference in Saros is that you come back stronger. It’s literally our tagline. But it doesn’t mean that it’s not a challenging game. It’s challenging and rewarding. So every death is valuable. For…
A poster for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has revealed that Fox McCloud, star of the Star Fox and Smash Bros. games, will appear in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. And our Super Smash Bros. Movie dreams have taken one giant leap towards reality.In the poster, which can be viewed below, Fox can be seen posing in front of Arwing, his signature spaceship, being admired by an unidentified (but impossibly cute) monkey. Fans were somehow able to identify Fox in a previous teaser by just a blurry screengrab of his leg alone, correctly speculating his appearance in the film.Fox McCloud…
Perhaps sensing competition in the field of Japan-flavoured arcade racing games, Forza Horizon 6 devs Playground Games have revealed the open-world vroomer’s system requirements. Agreeably, they’re a sensible balance of attainable low-end fare – at 1080p, a GTX 1650 and 16GB of RAM are apparently all that’s needed for 60fps – and the kind of hulking graphics bricks that you’d expect for 4K ray tracing. Only the most baby-oiled of hypercars for the RX 9070 XT owners, you understand, though support for lil’ handhelds like the Steam Deck is confirmed as well.
The Minecraft Tiny Takeover has arrived, transforming the sandbox game’s younger cast with new-look models, complete with fresh sounds. Whether you’re setting up a farm or love having pets around the house, it’s an overhaul that brings a little more personality to proceedings, and even offers you the secret to eternal youth – at least for your critters. Ahead of its launch, I spoke to Minecraft senior product manager Anna Lundgren to ask her about what went into this especially cute update. With more than 100 new textures, Tiny Takeover is one of the biggest cosmetic overhauls Minecraft has seen,…
Xbox is hosting its next big presentation today, promising a look at some upcoming titles.Today’s showcase will be an Xbox Partner Preview, meaning you shouldn’t expect to see much (if any) news on upcoming first-party Microsoft titles such as Halo: Campaign Evolved, Fable or Forza Horizon 6.Instead, the Partner Preview will focus on some of the big third-party releases coming to Xbox Series X/S in the coming months.Xbox is promising “news on upcoming games from partners including Sega, GSC Game World and Owlcat Games, plus brand-new reveals, world premieres and Xbox Game Pass announcements”.The Xbox Partner Preview presentation will be…
Seven years after he first teased it, Andy Muschietti has confirmed that he’s “going to do” a six-hour supercut of It and It: Chapter Two – but we won’t be getting it until after It: Welcome to Derry season 2.When asked for an update on the combined version, which will reportedly feature newly filmed sequences as well as deleted scenes, by SlashFilm recently, the horror director explained: “We didn’t have time to do it because we were involved in all kinds of projects. The show had a priority over the supercut.”We’re in a moment now where we can definitely go…
AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series of gaming CPUs might not have provided the hefty uplift in performance that we expected, after the revolution that the AM5 socket chips first brought, but they’ve nonetheless proven to be more efficient and slightly quicker options than the Ryzen 7000 chips they replaced. Slap bang in the middle of this range of options is the Ryzen 7 9700X, an eight-core and 16-thread processor that can be had for decent money. It’s currently $265 from Amazon US in the Spring Sale, working out to a genuine reduction on a decent option for most folks that makes…
Glass mouse pads are back. Nearly 20 years since they last fell out of fashion, the durability, easy-cleaning ability, and ultra-fast-gliding appeal of this sort of mouse surface has seen them make a resurgence. Not wanting to miss out on the trend, Corsair has unveiled its own version, in the shape of the imaginatively-titled Corsair MM Glass. Hoping to wrestle its way onto our best gaming mouse pad guide thanks to its huge size, sound dampening, and super speedy gliding surface, Corsair’s latest joins the likes of Attack Shark, Qpad, Razer, Superglide, and Wallhack in adding a glass option to…
The critically acclaimed Mewgenics may be coming to Switch 2 and PS5 soon.Ports running on both systems were posted on social media on Wednesday, suggesting it’s only a matter of time before they’re officially announced and dated.Mewgenics artist and co-designer Edmund McMillen posted a video on his X account showing a pre-release build of the game running on Switch 2, with the caption “oh hi Switch 2!”This was then replied to by Tyrone Rodriguez, who is credited under ‘special thanks’ in Mewgenics and previously helped with porting The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth to consoles.Rodriguez responded with “oh yeah?”, showing a…