Shift Up’s PlayStation 5 exclusive has some graffiti that could be construed as a bit racist, but Sony already swears that it will disappear from the game after the Day 1 patch is installed…   Digital Foundry did a technical analysis of Stelalr Blade, which runs on Unreal Engine 4. So the engine is a bit outdated (5.4 is already available to developers), but Shift Up goes all out, including volumetric lighting, to make the game look nice. There are also none of the annoying shader compilation stutters that have been a major annoyance with Unreal Engine 4 titles over the past few years. Th ..read more

Nintendo has released a 5-minute overview (in Japanese only, for some reason…?) of the more modern version of the Intelligent Systems game so you can get to know the RPG better; since the original was a hit on GameCube, it’s sure to sell well on Nintendo Switch.   The nefarious X-Nauts are after the treasure behind the Thousand Year Door! With a map from Princess Peach and the help of some locals, Mario travels through a colorful world made of paper to find them first. To succeed in this quest, you’ll have to level up Mario and his friends, master timing-based attacks and badges to impres ..read more

With the Fallout 4 next-gen update, Bethesda breaks the game’s compatibility with one of the most popular mods on PC, confirming players’ players’ concerns…     Fallout 4 next-gen update breaks the popular F4SE mod on PC. Released on April 25, the update brings performance improvements, additional Creation Club content and more to F4 amid increased interest in the franchise thanks to the recent Amazon TV series. But it obviously doesn’t work well with existing mods. Fallout 4’s next-gen update has been in the works for some time, with an initial release slated for summer 2023, but th ..read more

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has lost 99% of its players in less than three months and has just hit an all-time low on Steam…     It is designed to be a live service game that can live for ten years. But unfortunately, the story of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League seems to be coming to an end less than three months after its release. The game has hit rock bottom if Steam’s trackers are anything to go by. In the last few hours, it reached the lowest number of simultaneous users of all time. On the afternoon of Thursday, April 25, only 92 people played the game. This st ..read more

It’s now official that the name that appeared earlier was not fiction, and that Rockstar Games was indeed planning to dress one of Grand Theft Auto V’s main characters as an agent…   Steven Ogg was Trevor’s actor in Grand Theft Auto V, which was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 over ten years ago. There was no single player DLC for the game because Rockstar and Take-Two focused more on Grand Theft Auto Online, which made much more money than the planned but canceled single player DLC. One of the DLCs was to be called Agent Trevor, and Rockstar also had two other DLCs planned (one c ..read more

The Fallout universe is full of controversial or downright horrible Vaults, but 68 and 69 are particularly rough…     Creativity and a lack of ethical constraints seem to characterize Vault-Tec’s technicians when it comes to designing experiments in the legendary Vaults of the Fallout universe. Among the many strange experiments, one caught the colleagues’ attention at Mein-MMO: Vault 69. Sure enough, it’s exactly what you think and as bad as you can imagine. According to the information gathered, Vault 68 and 69 are unique creations within the Fallout universe, an underground shelte ..read more

Manor Lords, one of today’s most anticipated PC strategy games, does not yet have a wall-building tool – and what it has instead, you can “break” the game by abusing it, according to the creator…     This day has come: one of the most anticipated PC strategy games of 2024 will be released today! Manor Lords is expected to be massive and capable of satisfying everyone’s needs. This is proven by the three million players who laid eyes on it on Steam. However, since developer Slavic Magic knows that it faces a huge market thanks to Game Pass, it wanted to warn and encourage us not to “p ..read more

The developers have had a bit of a troubled time lately, announcing a brand new game and then having to cancel it the same day after laying off more than half of its staff.   Flaming Fowl is a studio based in Guildford, UK, that was opened in 2016 by developers who left Microsoft (and Lionhead Studios). Their first game was Fable Fortune, a card game based on the Fable license, and they released a hit game, Gloomhaven, in 2021. On Tuesday, they announced their next project, Ironmarked, which already had a demo on Steam, but is on hiatus due to the unusual financial situation in the gaming ..read more

And Dean Carter got to give his opinion to none other than the BBC! (The BBC News interview gives the mod national exposure…)   Carter said that Bethesda never once contacted the modders who made Fallout London. As we’ve written before, the original planned release date had to be pushed back because of the announcement of a next-gen patch for Fallout 4, and because they know from the example of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition that the script extender could ruin a lot of mods, they pushed the post-apocalyptic London adventure back indefinitely… “April 23rd was a date that would ..read more

Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P), the producer of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI, wanted to do something different, so after the dark fantasy style of the latter, he wanted to work on something lighter.   The two games differ not only in genre (the former is an MMORPG, the latter a single player), but also in style (the former is a lighter fantasy, the best of the franchise with stories, the latter is a dark fantasy like Game of Thrones). Michael-Christopher Koji Fox worked on both games, as he was Square Enix’s senior translator, and in an interview with MinnMax he said that Final Fa ..read more