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At first glance, this might look like any old 1970s television, its modest-sized screen encased in a massive wooden console. But look deeper and you’ll see that it’s actually one of the rarest and most special televisions in existence.
The obscure 2002 Game Boy Advance RPG Tomato Adventure is finally playable in English thanks to a fan translation patch released last week, arriving nearly 20 years since the role-playing game first came out in Japan.
Game payment company Xsolla is reportedly planning to lay off 150 people for being “unengaged and unproductive.” CEO and founder, Aleksandr Agapitov later wrote on Twitter, “Work your fucking ass off or get your fucking ass out.”
It’s a big old mess made more complicated by the CEO’s continued follow-up remarks that…
The original Metroid released 35 years ago today! In honor of the milestone, we’re talking about the best Metroid games of all time.
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The FFXIV Moonfire Faire is coming back in August 2021, giving people a chance to get a Polar Bear mount and more furniture for homes.
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The latest SMT V demon digest trailer focuses on Eligor, a fallen angel in red armor that always rides on a trusty steed in games.
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Aksys revealed its next 3 Otomate Switch game English localizations will be Lover Pretend, Paradigm Paradox, and Kimi wa Yukima ni Koinegau.
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Aksys announced the September and December 2021 release dates for its Switch otome games Olympia Soiree and Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani.
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The Metroid franchise is now officially 35 years old, as the very first game was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1986. Since then, the series has grown with multiple main series games, spin-offs, and appearances in other media.
For 35 years, we played as Samus Aran the bounty hunter as she traveled across hostile alien planets to protect the galaxy from the Space Pirates that want to harness the power of the Metroids. The Metroid games mix platforming elements with exploration, and they usually place players in isolated experiences.
While the original game started the series as a 2D side-scroller, the franchise has taken steps into the first-person perspective with the Prime games. Even though Metroid hasn’t always been a top seller, the game has retained a dedicated fanbase, and Samus, along with other characters, have appeared in Super Smash Bros. and other games.
Not many games can say they’ve inspired an entire genre; Metroid is responsible for defining the Metroidvania genre of games that feature nonlinear, explorable worlds.
As we celebrate Metroid’s 35th anniversary and look forward to upcoming games in the series, we want to see just how much you know about the franchise. Only true Metroid fans will be able to ace this trivia quiz about the series. Think you know everything there is to know? Take this quiz to find out.
Yesterday, Nintendo released the first substantial update for Mario Golf: Super Rush. In this brand-new Super Rush update is a new course, a new playable character, a new mode, and several improvements to make for a more enjoyable experience out on the Mushroom Kingdom links.
Most notably is the arrival of an all-new course, New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey fame. It looks like the map was lifted directly from Odyssey, looking oh-so-familiar in all the best ways. This particular 18-hole course is a special one because like Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour’s Congo Canopy and Mario Golf: World Tour’s Sky Island, New Donk City is entirely comprised of Par 3 holes.
Essentially, New Donk City is 36 all-new holes, because there is an amateur tee and a pro tee choice players can choose at the start of their rounds. Both feature different tee and green locations.
In the four seasons, it’s been an anime, Attack on Titan has proved itself to be one of the most impressive shows ever made, featuring amazing fight scenes and insanely detailed storylines. Unfortunately, the live-action adaptations haven’t hit the same mark, as it just seems to be a difficult transition to make things work with CGI compared to animation.
One animator is proving that it isn’t impossible for Attack on Titan to look sick using live-action, which you can see down below.
In the post to the official Attack on Titan Subreddit, Redditor Againnagainforever showed off an animation that was created by Masashi Imagawa. In the short clip, we get a shot of the Beast Titan transforming, the Walls of Paradis, and even some Survey Corp members using their vertical maneuvering equipment to get to the scene faster.
We’ve made it to the end of another long week, so what better way to celebrate the weekend than by looking at some hilarious anime memes. Whether it’s talking about banging OPs or the fact that we’d rather watch anime than do our homework, you won’t want to miss everything we’ve got for you done below.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy all of the hilarious memes we found this week. Be sure to let us know which ones were your favorites in the comments below. Also, don’t hesitate to leave any other great memes that we may have missed down there to help make us all laugh.
Less than a month after its initial announcement, Valve have invited a group of techies out to put their mitts on the upcoming Steam Deck handheld. Valve handed them over to several different sites to take for a spin with a selection of games including Control, Doom Eternal, Hades, and others. Not your RPS crew, alas, unless I massively missed a memo about Katharine being in Seattle.
In liu of us getting our own hands on the thing, here's what everyone who got to did had to say about it. The long and short is pretty positive: comfortable controls despite the large size and good performance even if the battery life may trend towards the low end of Valve's targets.
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Pokémon Unite, the TiMi Studio Group-developed MOBA released last month, is super fun. But the best thing about Pokémon shifting genres is getting to see the eponymous pocket monsters engage in a much different kind of competition.
It’s any given moment in time, and you all know what that means: It’s time to celebrate everyone’s favorite fluffy little bundles of chaotic indifference, cats. Whether they’re sneaking through the back streets of a cyberpunk dystopia or being loaded into a cannon to be sacrificed for the greater good, everyone but…
Early last month, Apex Legends was effectively shut down by hackers who claimed to be attacking the game in an effort to “save” Titanfall. A website, SaveTitanfall.com, was believed to be connected to the shutdown; however, the site pushed back, saying it had no connection to the hackers. Now new information indicates…
Kerbal Space Program studio Squad has finally brought development of its acclaimed space flight sim to a close, over a decade after the game's first public release.
Kerbal Space Program - which initially launched into early access via Squad's website in 2011 - gives players the opportunity to build and pilot their own fully-functional spaceships, rockets, and vehicles (while managing all aspects their alien race's quest for the stars if they choose), using actual proper science-y systems, from realistic aerodynamic to orbital physics.
Since leaving early access back in 2015, Kerbal Space Program has remained in active development, receiving numerous updates and expansions along the way - there's even a free "next-gen" update for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S due this autumn. However, Squad has now confirmed - after warning players the space flight sim's 1.12 update would be its last major release back in June - that its decade-plus-long journey is officially at an end.
After a sudden rollback to the pandemic-induced extended ranges for Gyms and PokéStops in Pokémon Go, Niantic faced heavy pushback from fans. You can catch up on the specifics of the changes and initial backlash in Andrew Reiner’s reporting here. On Thursday morning, Pokémon-focused site PokéJungle joined the chorus with an open letter to the Pokémon Go developer demanding the COVID-era changes stay. Last night, Niantic made an official response to PokéJungle’s letter and those angry over the change, assuring fans it’s looking to find a way to move forward.
In its message to the Pokémon Go community, Niantic acknowledges the grief of the player base, saying, “We appreciate your letter and all of your feedback. We hear you. We are humbled by your response. Not every game has such a passionate, global player base that we’re fortunate enough to have.” The letter addresses the developer's steps to bring exploration back to the game in places where social distancing guidelines have been lessened. While the current wave of the COVID-19 Delta variant isn’t mentioned, Niantic does say, “we will continue to monitor health and safety guidance related to outdoor activities, and will make future changes if necessary.”
Besides the original game, enhanced features, and new multiplayer content, the director’s cut of Ghost of Tsushima will also include the Iki Island expansion. I’m jazzed to have a reason to jump back into the world again. A new island to explore and fresh storylines? Sign me up.
But here’s the thing. I’m still not over the game’s saddest moment. For anyone who hasn’t played Ghost of Tsushima yet – you really should, but I get it if you are waiting for the upcoming release – this is the time to bookmark this story for later and walk away because I’m jumping into massive spoilers.
Earlier today, Stranger Things released a sneak peek for its fourth season, teasing that something big is coming. In the video below, we also learned that Stranger Things 4 will not be releasing until 2022.
While it doesn’t offer too much new information, the Stranger Things 4 sneak peek does show off David Harbour’s return as Jim Hopper, the group playing DnD, and fan-favorite Steve swimming underwater for some reason.
For anyone that needs a quick recap of the events so far, Netflix has provided an official synopsis of the previous three seasons, which you can view down below.
Stranger Things: A love letter to the ’80s classics that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is set in 1983 Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.
Battling your nightmares may not be so fun as whacking 'em with yo-yos in real life, but it sure is in Dreamscaper. This action roguelike about defeating your inner demons every night has just escaped from early access into a full launch. It's still rather pretty, and has gotten some decent-sized updates since the last time we took a good look at it. Now that it's fully launched, you can help Cassidy vanquish her darkest emotions for good.
The biggo demo festivals that Steam started running last year are now going to be a recurring part of our reality. They can be a bit overwhelming, with bite-sized versions of hundreds of upcoming games to try. According to Valve, they have actually made an observable impact for developers who participate though. I mean, they would say that. It's Valve though, so they've prepared the numbers to back it up. Not only do games in the Steam Next Fest see increased wishlist additions, they also have a better rates of converting those wishlists to eventual sales, Valve say.
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The PlayStation 2 is a great console, but does have one annoying flaw: It’s not portable. So one YouTuber, GingerOfOz, decided to fix this glaring design deficit and in the process created a sweet-looking handheld console he named the PS2 Eclipse.
With an easy user interface, anyone can play Tsugunohi, if they dare.
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The Ascent is a solid experience that, unfortunately, wasn’t created equal across all platforms. The cyberpunk co-op shooter is available on Steam as well as Xbox platforms, including Game Pass for console and PC. However, players quickly discovered that features present in the Steam version, such as ray tracing and DLSS, were missing from the Game Pass version. The experience has also suffered from numerous bugs. Players are justifiably miffed about the whole thing, and developer Neon Giant has taken the first step in righting the ship by releasing a patch aimed at correcting a number of issues.
The new patch is now live for Steam players and will be coming to Windows 10 and Xbox “shortly”, according to Neon Giant’s patch notes. You can read the full list of fixes here, but some big improvements include:
Today Cloud Imperium Games released the much-awaited update Alpha 3.14 in its growing space simulator Star Citizen.
The biggest feature of the update is the introduction of Orison, the landing zone floating over the gas giant planet Crusader, basically a beautiful “city in the clouds.”
We also get new gameplay features and the introduction of the RSI Constellation Taurus starship variant.
Here’s a list.
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Psychonauts 2 has officially gone gold — a point in development where the game is finished and sent to factories for mass production. After a long and turbulent development cycle, the game is set to release on Aug. 25 and will be on Xbox Game Pass day one.
Psychonauts 2 will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (through PS4 backward compatibility), PC, Linux, and Mac.
Every now and then, I take out the glossy, red Samsung point-and-shoot I have living in the top drawer in my bedroom. I knew it'd end up being the last of its kind I'd end up buying, and it remains one of the few items I have from an era when designers were bold in ways we perhaps don't experience anymore.
As someone born in the 90s, you can then imagine the elation I felt when I stumbled across a Twitter account dedicated to the forgotten Y2K styles, attitude and fashion of the 90s and early 00s. Evan Collins and Froyo Tam, two designers based on the American west coast, are cataloguing these for all to see, with images extracted from books, magazines, mass-produced CDs and product exhibitions, creating a formal taxonomy all designers can use. I had to get in touch. During one moment in our group Skype call with them, I casually mention how even the graphical work and typography of old computer component packaging was so much more flamboyant than it is now.
"Yeah, we definitely explore these types of collateral. It's very much about what people purchase, but it doesn't mean it's highbrow," says Tam, who has also produced events focussing on digital photography. Collins talks about these ubiquitous designs too. "Because it wasn't highbrow, it just wasn't tracked as well. They're not gonna publish as many books on it, like how the high art world is pretty well documented." He goes to the heart of the issue of preservation, saying, "That disposability led it to get a little bit lost, and that's where finding these old books is interesting."
Today it is finally the weekend and I'm going to have a waffle and ice cream for my dinner, and none of you can stop me! That's the true power of being an adult, and neatly demonstrates why the idiom that childhood is "the best years of your life" is a lie. I was never allowed to have waffle and ice cream for dinner as a kid. And after dinner comes delicious video games! Here's what we're playing this weekend.
A sweeping community investigation has claimed the recent Apex Legends "SaveTitanfall" hack was part of an elaborate scheme to revive a cancelled Titanfall spin-off.
On 4th July, Apex Legends on PC was hacked to display the URL "savetitanfall.com", with the subheader, "[Titanfall 1] is being attacked so is Apex."
Players also received an "important message" at the end of each match that requested they "visit and repost savetitanfall.com".
A total of five manhole covers will feature various Pokemon, including an Alolan Dugtrio in all its blonde-haired glory.
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Bandai Namco released a new batch of trailers about its upcoming cross-generation JRPG Tales of Arise.
The trailers showcase a few recurring artes in the series, and how they evolved from the older games all the way to Tales of Arise.
We get to see Explosion, Talon Storm, Sword Rain, and Demon Fang.
You can check them out below.
Atlus has released one more gameplay trailer focusing on the over 200+ demons of its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V.
The demon showcased today is Basilisk, another returning demon that has been part for the series for a long while.
Following the launch of version 2.0 of Genshin Impact and its new region, Inazuma, Mihoyo released a new trailer introducing one of its new characters.
We get the introduction to Sayu, the “pint-sized ninja.” She will be available via the game’s gacha soon, on August 10.
You can check her out below, both with English and Japanese voice acting, depending on your preference.
It’s always magical when a book or game or film lands in your life at the precise moment when it will speak to you the most. Playing No Longer Home, a new game about two friends facing the end of their time together in a London flat, was one of those rare experiences for me. There’s a remarkable honesty and depth of…