Author: Kavish
Star Wars Outlaws is almost here, and if you’re wondering if your PC can process a good-looking galaxy full of danger, you can check out the official PC requirements for the game below. Ubisoft has released a list of the hardware you’ll need to run Star Wars Outlaws at its bare minimum and very best, and the one unifying factor here is that you’ll need an SSD with 65GB of storage capacity.Beyond that, the requirements aren’t surprising. If you’re aiming for a 1080p 30fps experience using the low graphical presets, you’ll be fine with an old GPU like a GeForce…
Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Direct presentation for August 19 at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET. However, it’s not the usual kind of Nintendo Direct that you’d expect.This showcase is actually a 10-minute “Nintendo Museum Direct” and will be a tour of the Nintendo Museum that’s slated to open this fall in Kyoto, Japan. To clear up any confusion and dash any hopes, Nintendo also said that there will be no game announcements or any mention of the Switch successor during this presentation.Nintendo has been upfront about what to expect from its Nintendo Direct presentations, especially when…
Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka has announced that the remake’s soundtrack will be a “brand-new, reworked” experience. Yamaoka revealed the news to GameSpot and various press outlets during a recent preview event for the upcoming psychological horror game. The longtime composer went on to say that, while he understands that the original soundtrack is “beloved,” he ultimately wanted to ensure that all players would have a “fresh experience.””I have reworked all the tracks. There are segments and bits and pieces of the original tracks that you can hear, but all of the tracks have been reworked from the ground…
Silent Hill 2 art director Masahiro Ito has revealed that he almost turned down the offer to work on Konami’s upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake. Considering Ito’s pivotal role in the creation of Silent Hill 2 and its iconic monsters, such as Pyramid Head, the news came as quite a surprise when he shared it during a recent Silent Hill 2 preview event. According to Ito, he initially felt there was simply “no need” for a remake.”Back in late 2019 or 2020, [Silent Hill 2 composer Akira] Yamaoka-san reached out to me via Twitter, as it was called at the…
Until now, I haven’t been a fan of billionaire businessperson Mark Cuban. I put him in the same group as many billionaires who prioritize getting even wealthier over everything, including their families. However, based on what I saw last week, I couldn’t have been more wrong about Mark Cuban. Jon Stewart, who often does a better job of interviewing than most journalists, had Cuban as a guest on “The Daily Show.” One thing Cuban mentioned was that he wasn’t chasing the next big power trip but was focused instead on getting to know his kids and grandkids better. I wish…
There is no genre quite like horror. At its best, it’s so much more than guts and gore, or tired tropes and torture scenes. It’s self-reflection. It’s catharsis.It’s entering an implicit agreement with a work’s creator: If you spill your guts out to me (metaphorically or perhaps literally), then I will wade through my own, hold them up, and take note of what makes ours similar to one another. While there are certainly qualities that make for a “good” work of horror, the transcendent variety is subjective; it relies on your own fears, traumas, and beliefs to create resonance with…
Published by Thames & Hudson, Japansoft: An Oral History is a 348-page book filled with insights from developers who worked at emerging studios in the early days of the Japanese video game industry. Developers from Sega, Enix, Capcom, Nihon Falcom, and Hudson Soft are featured in this insightful oral history. Written by Alex Wiltshire, Japansoft was originally published in 2022 but has been out of print for a while.A good chunk of the content first appeared in John Szczepaniak’s The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, a truly massive book (well, books) that is worth checking out if you want…
Just because Borderlands failed to launch at the box office, it doesn’t mean Hollywood is giving up on video game movies. Perhaps thanks in part to the success of Sonic the Hedgehog’s two movies, another classic Sega game is coming to the big screen: Eternal Champions.Via The Hollywood Reporter, Skydance is producing the live-action Eternal Champions movie. The game was originally published by Sega for the Genesis in 1993, and the story revolved around a tournament to determine who the new Eternal Champion would be. Characters from the past, present, and future were brought together to fight until one emerged…
It’s our favorite time of the year and not just because temperatures are finally starting to cool down. It’s Gamecom time, folks!If the dozens of fantastic games launching over the course of the next few months weren’t enough to look forward to, brace yourselves for a whole lot of announcements, reveals, and deep dives courtesy of the Germany-based video game trade show. In this episode of Spot On, Tam and Lucy discuss what games they are most excited to see on the show floor, as well as what they suspect Opening Night Live has in store for us. From Monster…
From Silent Hill and System Shock to Ant Attack and Resident Evil, we’ve seen a wealth of nightmare-inducing horror games released over the past several decades. The history of these titles is often filled with surprising development stories, and From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Video Game Horror serves as a comprehensive resting place for all these terrifying tales. The popular volume from Bitmap Books is getting a restock at Amazon on September 3, providing readers with over 600 pages of horror game goodness. Releases from Bitmap Books are overwhelmingly popular–so we’d recommend reserving a copy while you still…