The people of Moonglow Bay fear the ocean — and for good reason. For them, it’s an abyss filled with more than just fish: It’s brought a whole lot of pain. The once-thriving fishing town has seen its fair share of tragedy, mostly brought on by the sea. It washed away beloved people and hard-fought […]
AI model development platform Abacus.ai lands $50M
Abacus.ai, a platform creating dev tools to develop and deploy enterprise AI technologies, today announced that it raised $50 million in a series C round led by Tiger Global with participation from Coatue, Index Partners, and Alkeon Ventures. The raise brings the company’s total funding to $90.3 million to date, and CEO Bindu Reddy says […]
Legendary Persona Composer Resigns, Will Develop Indies Instead
Shoji Meguro’s eclectic soundscapes are synonymous with the Persona brand: a stimulating mix of jazz, funk, pop, hip-hop, etc. According to an NME report, Meguro is entering the next stage of his musical career after working on Atlus’ dev team since the mid-90s. The legendary Persona composer has resigned and will pursue his long-time dream of […]
Oculus Sideloading Now Requires Phone Number Or Card
Facebook now requires you to provide a phone number or payment card details to sideload apps an Oculus Quest. This move was first announced more than a year ago but has only been enforced since last week, an Oculus developer blog post explains. Facebook describes this as ‘developer verification’. To sideload applications to an Oculus […]
Clash Royale Has New Life! Level Cap Increase And New Card Type Are Live Now
Many of Clash Royale’s players reached level cap years ago and maxed out all of the cards along the way. In the last two years, the game hasn’t offered much of a path forward for people that play every day. The seasonal tiers offer new tower skins and emotes, but the main hooks of the […]
Voice Of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars review – a card based world
The creator of NieR and Drakengard helms a turn-based RPG with a tabletop aesthetic, where a fantasy world is represented entirely by cards. For many, card-based video games are a Marmite proposition. You’re either fully engrossed in the likes of Hearthstone and Slay The Spire or bemused as to why anyone would choose to play […]
Should I buy Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack?
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, the new, upper-tier online subscription that Nintendo announced at the end of September, is available as of yesterday. The $49.99 price tag — more than double the basic Nintendo Switch Online rate — brings the service’s price more in line with its cousins on PlayStation and Xbox. But what […]
PlayStation Now November plans leak with free PS Plus games
We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info According to a series of new leaks, Mafia: Definitive Edition and Celeste will be among […]
New Pikmin AR game coming from Pokémon Go developer Niantic
Pikmin Bloom, a new augmented reality app from Nintendo and Pokémon Go creator Niantic, is coming to mobile devices starting Tuesday. The new app will be released in Australia and Singapore first, and will roll out globally over the coming days on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store, according to a news release. […]
Age Of Empires 4 review – war never changes
After 16 years the Age Of Empires franchise finally gets a new sequel but is the latest entry too similar to the old ones – or not enough? Following the release of Command & Conquer in 1995 real-time strategy games became the most popular game type on the PC, with every Western publisher in the […]