Month: June 2021

Square Enix and Luminous Studio Productions are aiming for the “highest quality visuals ever seen in an open world game” with Forspoken (formerly Project Athia). That’s according to Luminous Studio Head and General Manager, Takeshi Aramaki, who recently talked about implementing AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution in Forspoken. “Our studio’s vision is to create games unlike anything experienced before, fusing the
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This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming. As I entered a second hour of trying to hammer Distant Worlds Universe into a playable state on Windows 10, two thoughts occurred. The first is that I hope the upcoming Distant Worlds 2 is the 4X
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DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power reviewed on Nintendo Switch by Sarah LeBoeuf. Narration by Max Scoville. Even if it doesn’t do anything new or exciting, DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power has its charms. The heroes and villains of Metropolis High School are endearing and expertly brought to life by their voice actors, though
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the very first Sonic the Hedgehog game. Sonic 1 released on the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991, and even though SEGA and Nintendo have since become good friends in the decades that followed that intense 90s rivalry, the blue blur’s legacy hasn’t been forgotten. In fact, Famitsu has an
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After an apology from Bethesda’s Pete Hines made the rounds for Starfield’s Xbox exclusivity, General Manager of Microsoft Studios Aaron Greenberg wasn’t so cordial. “I’m not sorry. I’m not sorry,” Greenberg said in a Twitter Spaces chat between himself and Hines. The response from the Microsoft executive is understandable, given the purchase of Bethesda by
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Elden Ring was finally revealed during Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live, with a full-length trailer that announced the highly-anticipated game’s release date: January 21, 2022. Elden Ring is an open-world, third-person action RPG, from the studio behind the Dark Souls franchise, FromSoftware, in collaboration with Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin. Since the game
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The wonderful thing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet – and so, theoretically, anything is possible with enough effort, imagination, and collaboration. That’s the thinking behind Mercedes-Benz’s latest initiative, which is designed to create a conversation around one idea: “Let’s imagine futures together”. Play Video If there’s one thing we love to
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Last week, we reported on the launch of Cave’s acclaimed shooter, Mushihimesama. After an appearance in the Japanese Nintendo Direct, the game surprise-launched on the Switch eShop, ready for retro shooter fans to download and enjoy immediately after the show. Unfortunately, since that launch, the game has disappeared from the European eShop. Its removal was
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance reviewed on Xbox and PC by Travis Northup. Also available on PlayStation. I badly wanted Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance to be an awesome co-op version of the pencil-and-paper tabletop RPGs I’ve loved for decades, but it just isn’t. It’s a bland, boring trek through repetitive encounters that’s filled with
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Nintendo Treehouse’s Bill Trinen had plenty to say to IGN about what The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 is, even though he couldn’t reveal anything new about the game itself. One topic in particular had been about comparisons to Majora’s Mask, and if the game is really its own thing. Trinen understands
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A lightning quick hedgehog is the perfect oxymoron for a video game character, and it is one that has served Sonic the Hedgehog well for a whopping 30 years now. And the blue blur has been through almost as much as a regular 30-year-old during that time: girlfriends, betrayals, facelifts and reinventions, Thanksgiving parades, cloning,
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