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Players are exploring the possibilities in Pokemon Pokopia, Nintendo’s new sandbox based on the ever-popular pocket monsters. The greatest creation thus far, at least as far as we can see, is a functioning calculator, built entirely out of what the island offers.Twitter user Taronow0530 is behind the incredible bit of digital engineering. On a gigantic screen are groups of lights, laid out like an old LED display to allow for two single digits, separated by what can be a plus or minus sign, then below them, an equals sign, and another digit.Through individual buttons for each light, one can input…
Saturday. We meet again. I see you’ve brought your old friends Blustery Wind and Chill In The Air with you. I expected better of you, you know those two just bring you down. You’ve so much potential. What don’t you hang out with T-Shirt Weather and Gosh, That’s Bright anymore? They’ve got their personified heads screwed on right. No? We’re stuck with this chilly winter for one more weekend? Fine, I didn’t want to go outside anyway. I’m happy to stay in and play videogames.
I attended an all-girls Catholic high school. Religion then, for me, is complicated. It’s always been a set of guidelines: don’t do bad things, treat others the way you want to be treated. But, by the end of my time at school, I had seen its uglier side. The people who claimed to be good Catholics bullied other girls for being of a different race; they cast out queer people simply for loving the people they loved. Yet, nothing was ever done about it. Why – how could the acolytes of something so inherently good be so inherently bad? It’s…
Overwatch creator Jeff Kaplan and ex-Blizzard engineer Tim Ford, both co-founders of new studio Kintsugiyama, keep flaunting their upcoming open-world cowboy game The Legend of California in beefy 10-hour streams, and if you watched the most recent one and saw a Kintsugiyama dev trapped in a T-pose, no you didn’t.”What’s going on with Blanchie in the T-pose?!” Kaplan exclaims around the three hour, 57 minute mark in their March 21 stream about a dev’s character Blanche – an homage to the Golden Girls in Kintsugiyama’s Rust-like FPS set in mythological California. Blanche clearly couldn’t handle being so far removed from…
Broadly speaking accessibility features still have a long way to go in most games, however, one that has been cropping up more and more are phobia-sensitive options. It cannot be understated how many don’t like spiders! So the increase in such features is welcome as someone who perhaps doesn’t have a phobia but would still like the option to not look at the eight-legged devils. And according to March’s Slay the Spire 2 newsletter, sorry, neowsletter, a phobia accessibility mode is on the way. There’s no specific date attached to this right now, with co-creator Casey Yano explaining…
I bought a PS4 solely to play the first game, so you can bet that I was all in when Death Stranding 2 was finally announced. The sequel is everything a follow-up should deliver, expanding the world while still nailing the narrative themes, but also changing the gameplay just enough that it’s still fantastic. The PS5 console-exclusive made me laugh, cry, and become frustrated during intense deliveries, and now, Death Stranding 2’s PC port has got me feeling all of those things once again. I make it no secret that, despite the weird scenes and bizarre plot, Death Stranding 2…
While The Boys season 5 might be the end of the mainline show, the universe is set to live on with multiple spin-offs, including Vought Rising.That show will be a prequel starring Jensen Ackles’s Soldier Boy and Aya Cash’s Stormfront, and it sounds like it won’t hold back.”If Gen V was our take on a coming-of-age college show, then Vought Rising is our tone mixed with a ’50s detective show,” The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke told SFX magazine. “It’s a lurid, pulpy detective story, but done in our tone. So really graphic, really profane, lots of sex and violence. It’s…
Marathon has entered its second week of existence, even if it somehow feels like it’s already been around forever (perhaps that’s the discourse I’m remembering now that I think about it), and Bungie have been ticking away at updates bit by bit. Just this week an update was introduced that made UESC enemies a tad weaker, and now Bungie have outlined what you can expect from update 1.0.5 which is coming to the shooter next week. For starters, your vault space will be looking a bit roomier. That’s because you’ll be able to stack greater quantities of consumables, ammo,…
What if Disney had made Doom 100 years ago? And what if, instead of a grizzled marine, it starred a noir-tinged hardboiled detective that also happens to be a mouse named Jack Pepper? That’s the wavelength that Mouse: P.I. For Hire from developer Fumi Games and publisher PlaySide is working on. None of this should exactly be news to many people – the trailers for the game have previously gone some level of viral – but actually sitting down and playing Mouse: P.I. For Hire on the Nintendo Switch 2 during GDC 2026 is a bit like seeing the magic…
You know, I wish there were more morally dubious protagonists in the world of video games. I know why there’s not, many people want to identify with the characters they’re embodying. But then I think about every other storytelling medium out there and how some of my favourite pieces feature people that aren’t supposedly good or heroic, and long for the same in games. So, I’m quite interested in WITCHHUNTER.exe, a throwback text adventure game that actually has quite a lot of pretty pixel art where you play as a priest that must uncover witches in a rural town…