PlayStation Plus August Lineup Is Headlined by LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Sony has just unveiled the August 2024 lineup of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. By far, the most exciting addition is LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
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'I can’t thank streamers enough': Palworld developer's CEO weighs in on Japanese visual novel discourse in the wake of streaming controversy
If your first response to that headline was «what are these words, and why are they being put in that order?» That's understandable—the present discourse taking place in the Japanese gaming community is, after all, centred around a genre we don't get to talk about too often over here: The visual novel.
Assassin's Creed subreddit promises bans for anyone who keeps complaining about 'historical accuracy' and Yasuke: 'We are all exhausted of this tedious discussion'
Whether or not Yasuke, an African man who briefly served feudal lord Oda Nobunaga in 16th-century Japan, was «really a samurai» is a somewhat interesting question for scholars of the era, and comes down to how the historical records of his life pair with use of the term «samurai» at the time. Biographer Thomas Lockley, as one example, has said that Yasuke was indeed one of Nobunaga's many samurai, the title simply referring to warriors who served a lord (see: this Smithsonian article).
Palworld's community manager says our 'dead game' fixation is ruining gaming: 'I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out'
John «Bucky» Buckley, community manager for Palworld developer Pocketpair, has waded into the «dead games» discourse once again. Speaking in an interview with the YouTube channel Going Indie, Buckley pushed back against the idea that the only measure of a game's success is how long it's able to maintain the highest possible player count. «I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out,» Buckley said.
Ducky Zero 6108 review
If there’s one keyboard manufacturer I’ve often considered to be underrated, that honour would go to Taiwanese brand Ducky. It was one of the first brands I really took notice of when I got into mechanical keyboards as a wee nipper nearly ten years ago. Back then, it was making headlines for manufacturing a special ‘board with handmade ceramic plates to mark the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac, or a limited edition keyboard with eleven different MX switch variants: the Ducky One 711.
Helldivers 2 gets fired up with a new Warbond that'll let you wield a flamethrower in every weapon slot
Helldivers 2's next Warbond is about to have troopers cooking up a storm with new fiery weapons like two new flamethrowers.
The Steam Tower Defense Fest is here, bringing sales on games where buildings do the battling
With the Summer Sale a few weeks behind in the rearview, we've re-entered the march of Steam's genre-specific festivals, offering shorter-term savings on specific flavors of game. And speaking of marching, that's precisely what you're supposed to prevent in the games headlining the latest fest sale. The Steam Tower Defense Fest kicked off today, offering sales celebrating the tactical placement of defensive fortifications until 10 AM Pacific on August 5, 2024.
An Elden Ring streamer killed Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss in one hit and only needed to juggle 5 consumables, 3 weapons, 4 helmets, and 5 talismans to do it
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree earned an immediate reputation for its punishing difficulty, to the point that it suffered a brief barrage of negative reviews from players who thought its boss fights were excessively brutal. The DLC's final boss, as you might expect, is particularly nasty—so nasty that it took legendary boss-deleter Let Me Solo Her three hours of attempts. Seems like all the fuss might be a little unnecessary, though, because over the weekend, Elden Ring streamer Ainrun killed Erdtree's last boss with a single hit.