Maybe someday? Until then, I’ll just be zooming round the Super Nintendo World website, which offers something of a virtual tour of the site, and our first official look at the attraction in motion. Scroll down through the website to fly around the site, the entrance to its Bowser’s Castle ride, a look at its Yoshi’s Adventure train, its Kinopio’s Cafe (Toad’s Cafe) restaurant, 1UP Factory gift shop and more....
Emulation became widely available with the launch of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion pack last year, although subscribers to the £35-a-year catalogue reported a number of general issues at the time of launch, including lag and low frame rates. A couple of games also feature more specific problems, including Mario Kart 64, Sin and Punishment, and Mario 64. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time included strange glitches too, including graphical issues that prevented the game from properly rendering fog....
Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade at the end of June, publishers and developers around the world - including Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Bungie, Naughty Dog, Double Fine, and Bethesda - released statements in support of reproductive rights. Take-Two was one of the few major publishers, alongside Activision Blizzard, not to respond publicly to the news. Three weeks on, though, Take-Two has now released its own statement across a limited number of social media channels, including its own LinkedIn page and subsidiary Zynga’s Twitter feed....
After its reveal earlier this month, Nintendo recently afforded us another, more detailed look at Game Builder Garage. At its very heart are the Nodons, anthropomorphic embodiments of the building blocks of each creation, and each with a distinct personality. The Nodon that controls the camera function, for example, is a luvvie, while the Nodon assigned to each button is a hardy little thing. Elsewhere the Nodon that governs the in-game timer is a thing of strict logic, while the retry button is an old-timer filled with regrets wishing he could do things over again....
The detail, listed on the game’s new Japanese website, has raised eyebrows since Symphonia on GameCube was presented in largely 60fps (with 30fps only for the world map). Instead, this new remaster features a blanket 1080p 30fps across all three platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Fans believe the issue here may stem from the fact that the version of Symphonia being updated for these remasters is not the GameCube original, but the subsequent PS2 port which had a smattering of extra content included - and which was also locked to 30fps....
Below, we’ve assembled our own picks for the best champs in the game, based on our own time playing and several other sources that we’ll reference along the way. If you’re looking for more on TFT, meanwhile, our Teamfight Tactics item cheat sheet and general Teamfight Tactics guide and strategies for getting started are worth checking out. Update (July 19th): The Teamfight Tactics tier list is up to date as of patch Patch 9....
Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead first released on 24th April 2012, and, over the course of Season 1’s five critically acclaimed episodes, would establish not only the template for pretty much every one of the studio’s releases from that point onward - blending real-time events and persistent choices - but a host of other narrative-driven adventures too, most notably the work of Life is Strange developer Dontnod. However, as revealed by The Walking Dead’s season design and direction lead Jake Rodkin in the newly released mini-documentary, Telltale could have ended up with a very different zombie experience if it’s original plans had come to pass, given the project started life as a pitch to do a narrative side-story within Valve’s Left 4 Dead universe....
In the video below spotted by Kotaku, Gaming with Griff Griffin shows us that Neon Giant’s The Ascent looks just as good in first-person, with an impressive level of detail on display when you’re viewing the world up close. We see detailed character models, environments and even objects in shops (The Ascent’s shops are great!). I love the Neuromancer nod, too. Griff Griffin used a tool called the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker to move the camera about (details are in the video description)....
It offers a brilliantly moody monochrome look within the factories of Italian brake manufacturer Brembo - a place I’d thought might have been fairly mundane, but the tense Hollywood soundtrack and loving shots of all that machinery have convinced me otherwise. By the time those pads had been bolted onto a GT3 Audi R8 I’ll admit I was on the edge of my seat. There’s plenty more new Gran Turismo 7 footage in the trailer too, showing what’s sure to be a spectacular looking game....
Reiterating what it said earlier in the week, the developer assured players it’s “listening to your feedback”. The Callisto Protocol director also Glen Schofield echoed this sentiment, saying “we hear you”. Meanwhile, further PC and console optimisations are “in the works now”, with the The Callisto Protocol team asking everyone to “stay tuned” for more information. The original story continues below. ORIGINAL STORY 05/12/2022: Striking Distance has released a new patch for The Callisto Protocol’s console versions....
EA announced it had signed an extension to its multi-year UEFA club competition licence, which means the Champions League and Europa League will remain exclusive to the FIFA series. EA nabbed the Champions League licence from football rival PES back in 2018 after Konami’s 10-year deal with UEFA came to an end. Meanwhile, EA said it’s expanding FIFA with six in-development mobile games, “ranging from authentic simulation to unique arcade formats offering new ways to play for everyone”....
Available exclusively via iOS’ Apple Arcade subscription, Little Orpheus now includes a ninth narrative instalment, named A Rush of Onion to the Head. Described by The Chinese Room as “an epic conclusion” to its tale, it sees the game’s hero Ivan Ivanovic return from the centre of the Earth. Here’s a look: “Sprightly platforming action marks a change of pace for The Chinese Room in this bold if brief adventure,” Vikki Blake wrote last year in Eurogamer’s Little Orpheus review, adding that it was “a delightful platforming sprint from the masters of the walking sim”....
But still, the headline is that all versions now run at 60fps, lifting the 30fps cap from the last-gen experience. It feels vastly smoother of course, transformative for a third person shooter, and there are improvements to loading times too - plus improved texture filtering on Xbox Series consoles. In terms of resolutions, The Division 2 retains the game’s impressive temporal reconstruction technique, meaning we had to jump through hoops somewhat to discern actual native pixel counts....
There are, of course, lots of great games on sale, too. We’ve picked out a few of our favourites worth playing when you’re taking a break from the sunshine. Control Ultimate Edition Control is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure from Remedy Entertainment. Control features open-ended environments Remedy’s signature world-building and storytelling which creates an expansive and satisfying gameplay experience. After a corruptive presence has invaded the Federal Bureau of Control, you must use the world as a weapon to fight back....
It was a game that one initially couldn’t see working on anything but the DS, but this is Square-Enix, of course, so ports to everything from smartphones to the Switch ensued, all losing the second screen and a little of the strange magic with it. Now the game has a proper follow-up, in the form of Neo: The World Ends With You, which is headed to Switch and PS4 in July, then the Epic Games Store later this summer....
Logitech has a few different sensors across their range of gaming mice, and they’re all very good. If you’re desperate to get rid of your old office mouse for something proper for as little money as possible, then the Logitech G203 is here to save the day. It has Logitech’s 8,000 DPI gaming-grade sensor that can be customised in the Logitech software, and right now Prime Members can get it for just £13!...
There is obviously a longer story to tell here about the Chinese state’s sensitivity to criticism, the culture of Chinese patriotism online and the country’s strained relationship with Taiwan, but when I approached Red Candle for an interview in February, it was simply to hear about the creation of a complex and powerful artwork. Set across three periods in the cramped domestic life of a mother, father and daughter in 1980s Taiwan, Devotion ties prejudices about mental illness to the pressure of gender expectations and the lure of the irrational in troubled times....
In an investor’s report, Sega Sammy says that between March 2020 and the end of the fiscal year in March 2021, the fan-favourite franchise has sold almost two million copies. The main Megami Tensei series - from which Persona is a spin-off, of course - has sold 17.7 million copies, although Sega Sammy points out that these figures also include pachislot and pachinko machines, too. PersonaCentral points out a little discrepancy, though, as the same report says the series had sold three million copies, and some of the timelines provided go beyond the end of the fiscal year....
Still, Pentiment has good writing - wonderful writing, actually - and in this case I do know what it means. This game’s writing is witty, it has tempo and timing, it is genuinely, wickedly funny. It is also, above all, natural - something that so often seems impossible in games, things where you’re so often controlling a character impulsively, pulling their puppet strings on a whim. How do you write around that?...
I’d first been introduced to the Speccy three years earlier. Growing up, everyone seemed to have that one friend whose parents bought them everything. Mine lived across the road, and one Saturday morning, I strolled into their lounge where he had a 16K Spectrum set up, the tiny computer dwarfed by the large television and furniture. We soon had a game loaded, and, of course, I recall which one: Escape by New Generation Software....
