Microsoft has rolled out the latest in its ongoing series of free World Updates for Microsoft Flight Simulator, this time with a focus on Australia. Microsoft Flight Simulator World Update VII: Australia adds four handcrafted airports (Longreach, Mount Beauty, Paraburdoo, and Shellharbour), and adds extra detail to 100 others, courtesy …
There’s the seed of a good idea at the heart of Gravity Chase: an anti-gravity racing game, but one that plays more like a Tempest-style tube shooter. The race track is a cylindrical tube, and rather than turning corners, your main form of movement—other than accelerating, obviously—is spinning around its …
Nova-box, the studio behind interactive graphic novels like Seer’s Isle and Across the Grooves has a new project on the way: End of Lines, a story about a family’s search for a home after a climate-induced apocalypse. Due out on Switch and PC later this year, End of Lines depicts …
A new trailer for Touken Ranbu Warriors dropped overnight, and alongside an overview of game systems and introduction of a mysterious new character, there’s a preview of a beautiful opening theme by Akiko Shikata. Prolific as she is in the videogame music scene, Shikata’s layered vocals and evocative compositions will …
It feels like an Oceanic data centre for Final Fantasy XIV has been a long time coming, but the wait is, finally, almost over: the new servers will open a couple of weeks earlier than originally planned, on January 25. The new data centre is called Materia, and will house …
Nintendo Switch continues to be the unlikely home for lewd, fanservice-filled games, with eastasiasoft and Idea Factory teaming up for a Western release of sexy pirate-themed comedy RPG Seven Pirates H in northern spring / southern autumn 2022. Seven Pirates H is an enhanced port of Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates, …
Good news: Compile Heart’s excellent dark fairy tale-themed dungeon crawler Mary Skelter 2 is coming to Steam, and very soon: January 14 (NZT)! Mary Skelter 2 originally came out for PS4 in Japan in 2018, and then globally on PS4 and Switch a year later. Rather than a direct sequel, …
While everyone else was getting excited about what a FromSoftware / George R. R. Martin mashup could bring, the announcement of Elden Ring honestly just made me feel tired. What could the Game of Thrones author bring to the table that Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team don’t already do better? …
Earlier this year, Sony made the extremely unpopular announcement that it would be closing the digital stores for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, removing any way to buy digital goods for those systems. Unsurprisingly, it sparked a lot of blowback—despite their age, both systems still have passionate and active user …
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage doesn’t officially launch in the West until later this year, but for anyone who can’t wait until then to take Miku’s latest mobile rhythm game out for a spin (guilty), there’s good news: starting today, Sega and Colorful Palette are holding a two-week beta test. The …
