Author: Garry Smith

Tales of Graces f is often heralded as having the best combat of the long-running action-RPG series, and it’s unfortunately been “stuck” on the PS3 – at least over in the West, since its initial release here in 2012. Bandai Namco only just announced Tales of Graces f Remastered, and it’s being released on pretty much all platforms–Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and PC. I had the chance to go hands-on with Tales of Graces f Remastered and talk to the game’s producer, Yuki Ishikawa. In Tales of Graces f Remastered, Asbel Lhant makes many lifelong…

Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting its first AAA game, IGN can exclusively reveal.Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive announced today a new action-RPG based in what’s called in the Avatar Legends universe, the label based on the world first introduced by Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s in collaboration with Avatar Studios, the division launched by original show creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in 2021 with the goal of expanding the Avatar universe.It’s still in early development, so details are a little slim at the moment, but the companies call it “the biggest video game in franchise history.”…

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (officially Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater) is a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid 3 that adds a full third-person mode to the game, but being able to run and gun made it so easy Konami manually bumped up the difficulty.In an interview with Famitsu translated by Automaton, creative producer Yuji Korekado discussed the two gameplay modes available in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Legacy Style and New Style. The former is an exact recreation of the 2004 game, essentially a top-down camera with a fixed perspective, while the latter features modern gameplay…

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has insisted the company is now “financially sound” after a tumultuous period in which 830 staff were laid off.In September 2023, the North Carolina studio behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine suffered a significant round of layoffs that saw 830 employees, about 16% of its workforce, lose their jobs.Separately, Epic divested music service platform Bandcamp and spun off most of SuperAwesome, a kid-safe technology company. These were acquired by Epic Games in 2022 and 2020, respectively. Around 250 people left Epic through the divestitures.At the time, Sweeney said Epic had been spending “way more money than…

Konami has said remaking the first Metal Gear Solid would be much more complicated than its incoming remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.In an interview with Famitsu translated by Genki on X/Twitter, Metal Gear Solid series producer Noriaki Okamura didn’t shut down the possibility of other remakes but made clear they wouldn’t be coming anytime soon.This is because a remake of the first Metal Gear Solid, alongside the original two Metal Gear games released for the MSX2 and Nintendo Entertainment System, would require the creation of many brand new elements.Remaking the third game as Metal Gear Solid Delta:…

Blizzard has detailed what to expect from Diablo 4’s upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion and Season 6 Hatred Rising, and published the patch notes for both the 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 updates ahead of launch.The patch notes for both updates, below, contain a long list of changes coming to Blizzard’s record-breaking action role-playing game alongside Season 6, called Hatred Rising, which kicks off October 7 at 4 pm PDT. Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4’s first expansion, officially goes live alongside Season 6 on October 7 at 4pm PDT globally.During a pre-launch livestream, developers from Blizzard outlined the post-patch 2.0 Public Test…

God of War Ragnarok is now available on PC and, while Sony itself released an option to tone down puzzle hints from companions, one fan has released the Please Shut Up mod to cut them altogether.Though 2022’s God of War Ragnarok was incredibly well received, selling a whopping 11 million copies in less than three months and earning a 10/10 in IGN’s review, one gripe players had was with companions throwing out puzzle solutions before players had a chance to solve them themselves.Sony took action almost two years later by releasing a feature that would “reduce the frequency” of these…

Throne and Liberty developer NCSoft has released the Amazon Games-published MMO’s first post-launch patch, 1.1.0. It includes bug fixes for the user interface and settings, and performance improvements.It’s worth noting that on PS5 specifically, patch 1.1.0 makes optimizations to reduce screen tearing issues, and on Xbox Series X and S, it increases the resolution of the world map.Throne and Liberty got off to a huge start on Steam this week, with a peak concurrent player count of 326,377 putting it behind only Valve’s own Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2, and the evergreen Banana. While Throne and Liberty also launched on…

Welcome to a Thursday of high-end hardware savings. For starters, you can get a chunk of change off the sumptuous screen stylings of the Steam Deck OLED. For seconds, there’s a bit of a fire sale going on for the discontinuing Meta Quest 3 128GB. Take it from an owner of both; these are very worthy acquisitions and gateways to hours of fun. In retro news, I’m celebrating the PC bday of Sonic CD, a port from the ill-fated Mega-CD. It started as a Sonic 1 enhancement but bloomed into a unique, Back to the Future romp, and my 16-bit…

Steven Spielberg’s love of video games is well-documented. There are numerous pictures of him posing next to classic arcade games like Donkey Kong, Missile Command, and Space Invaders, and he’s been involved in various video game-related projects over the years, including directing the film adaptation of Ready Player One.But while many adults lose their passion for gaming as the grow older, Spielberg is apparently still at it. There’s just one thing: he doesn’t like controllers.”He loves story games and I’m always trying to get him to play Uncharted because it’s Indiana Jones and I’m like, ‘Hey, you’d appreciate this.’ But…