PS2 classic Ico turns 20 years old

 Posted on November 19, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  391 words  |  Trudie Dory

PlayStation 2 classic Ico has turned 20 years old. In the 2001 adventure game, developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico and directed by Fumito Ueda, you play a young boy born with horns who encounters a princess called Yorda. The pair work to escape a castle, while Ico helps Yorda evade shadowy creatures. The hook - apart from Ico's gorgeous, minimalist visuals and design - is the player controls Ico while assisting Yorda. [Read More]

Star Citizen now has a city in the clouds

 Posted on November 19, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  444 words  |  Patria Henriques

Star Citizen just launched its alpha 3.14 update, which adds a city in the clouds to the space sim. The Orison landing zone is set on the Crusader gas giant, and includes a spaceport, a peace garden and other amenities befitting a sci-fi tourist destination. The trailer is below: Crusader makes use of the initial implementation of Star Citizen's Planetary Volumetric Clouds tech. The idea is to render multi-layered, volumetric clouds of varying scale within planetary atmospheres. [Read More]

Titan Souls walkthrough and game guide

 Posted on November 19, 2022  |  9 minutes  |  1888 words  |  Trudie Dory

Page 1 of 6 Next page Titan Souls started off life as a Ludum Dare game jam entry, but it wasn't long before the developers at Acid Nerve realised they were onto something really rather special. With nods to the kind of intimidating combat encounters found in games like Dark Souls, your task in the game is to steer a warrior - armed only with a humble arrow - through a number of agonisingly tricky boss encounters, where a single point of damage in each one proves fatal to your adventure. [Read More]

Umurangi Generation Special Edition review - a uniquely thoughtful game about crisis

 Posted on November 19, 2022  |  10 minutes  |  1961 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Photography opens up a complex world of timely, timeless narrative.To plan ahead, or just jump in? Umurangi Generation is a game about taking pictures, and at the beginning of each level you can begin, if you wish, by having a look at the list of specific objects you are asked to snap. These are the bounties for you to deliver. Two disposable cameras. Skateboards. Two cats, but taken with a telephoto lens. [Read More]

Zelda: Skyward Sword - The Imprisoned boss battle strategies explained

 Posted on November 19, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  1219 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

The Imprisoned is one of two recurring bosses, alongside Ghirahim, which you'll have to defeat in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Your battles against The Imprisoned will always occur at the Sealed Grounds - the first place Link visits on the surface world - as it tries to make its evil way to the temple. It will break it's seal after you've completed the Lanayru Mining Facility, the Fire Sanctuary and defeat Bilocyte. [Read More]

Ark: Survival Evolved is getting online and local split-screen on Xbox One

 Posted on November 18, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  358 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Ark: Survival Evolved is getting split-screen multiplayer both online and locally on Xbox One, developer Studio Wildcard announced in its upcoming patch notes. The developer previously teased a two-player split-screen co-op mode exclusive to Xbox One in a report from Gamespot last month. At the time Studio Wildcard said split-screen would be local-only and exclusive to the Xbox One version. We've since asked if this newly announced feature will come to other platforms and possibly support more than two players. [Read More]

Battlefield Hardline release date announced

 Posted on November 18, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  343 words  |  Trudie Dory

Battlefield Hardline launches on 17th March 2015 in North America, 19th March 2015 in Europe and 20th March 2015 in the UK, EA has announced. Developer Visceral's cops and robbers-inspired Battlefield spin-off had once been due out this month, but was delayed to early 2015 following feedback from the summer beta. The announcement came as part of EA's fiscal 2015 Q2 financial results, which saw record revenue of $1.22 billion. [Read More]

Blizzard explains $60 cost of World of Warcraft level 90 character boost

 Posted on November 18, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  516 words  |  Patria Henriques

Blizzard has explained its decision to sell World of Warcraft level 90 character boosts for $60. Those who buy the Warlords of Draenor expansion get a single level to 90 boost at no extra cost, but Blizzard will sell the boost from the World of Warcraft store so players can instantly level more characters. Last week WOW Insider spotted the level 90 boost on the store and took a picture before it was removed from Blizzard. [Read More]

Crazy Taxi on Steam now has original Pizza Hut, KFC and FILA destination names - thanks to modders

 Posted on November 18, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  342 words  |  Trudie Dory

Modders have restored the original destination names to Crazy Taxi on Steam. Sega's wonderful 1999 arcade racing game first launched with prominent product placement, including destinations modelled after real-life brands such as Pizza Hut, KFC, Tower Records and FILA. Remember FILA? There was a time FILA trainers were all the rage. I remember. The original arcade version of Crazy Taxi and its initial ports to Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC included this product placement, but when it came to the 2010 release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the 2011 release on Steam, the brands were replaced by fakes. [Read More]

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.23: is the game fit for its PSN comeback?

 Posted on November 18, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  955 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Delisted from the PlayStation Store in December last year, Cyberpunk 2077 has finally re-emerged on Sony's storefront, available to buy once more for PS4, PS4 Pro and PlayStation 5. Removed from sale over its many bugs and performance problems, its re-arrival suggests that the game has significantly improved since launch - and at the very least, it should not crash back to the PS4 front-end, behaviour we noted in every single patch update we tested until now. [Read More]