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Tech Clutter Overload: New CNET Survey Shows 31% of US Adults Hang On to Old Devices
Despite incentives for selling and trading tech devices, a large number of phones, computer and game consoles end up neglected and unused.
Square Enix, Capcom, Taito, and Sega commit to “archiving past development materials”
Square Enix, Capcom, Taito, and Sega have unveiled plans to “archive past [game] development materials.” Read more
Diablo 4 could come to Nintendo Switch 2, but series head says “live services on Switch have been a little bit challenging in the past”
The Nintendo Switch 2 already has an impressive lineup of games being ported over to it, like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring, and Diablo 4 may eventually be on that list. In an interview with Danny Peña’s Gamertag Radio (spotted by VGC), general manager of Diablo, Rod Fergusson, says: “I think there’s opportunity there for…
Final Fantasy 14 players can’t help themselves: MMO diehards dogpiled the “casual” Cosmic Exploration content so hard it’s caused community debate on FOMO and time-gating
The Final Fantasy 14 community is once again in shambles, but this time it’s not over a poor event reward or Dawntrail reviews – it’s related to patch 7.21 and its introduction of Cosmic Exploration, a new instanced form of collaborative casual content. At least that’s what it’s supposed to be – but fans are…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sales Top 500,000 Units
Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Sandfall Interactive have announced the turn-based RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has sold over 500,000 units. “A milestone for us, reached sooner than we’d ever imagined,” said the developers. “Thank you all.” Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, and Xbox Game Pass on April…
I was already sold on this cozy Metroidvania, and then I learned its cute space rovers are based on the devs’ dogs: “We’re constantly wiping our eyes during team meetings”
Cozy indie Metroidvania Good Boy has done something that no other game has managed before – it’s made me cry, and it’s not even out. I have a feeling that its actual release is going to be an emotional rollercoaster for us all. Developed by a small team of around eight-to-10 people at indie studio…
New PS5 Update Brings Back Classic Console UI Designs
Sony will release a new system software update for PlayStation 5 on April 24, and it will bring back the PS5 home screen UI designs based on Sony’s previous consoles. These UI themes based on PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 were first released last December to celebrate PlayStation’s 30th anniversary. They were warmly received at…
The song at the heart of Lazarus’ score was inspired by a blues classic from nearly a century ago
Music has always been instrumental in Shinichirō Watanabe’s anime (pun intended). More than just merely background music, every soundtrack featured across Watanabe’s body of work is inextricable from the identity of each of his series, from the big band jazz and rock of Cowboy Bebop to the lo-fi boom bap beats of Samurai Champloo. Lazarus,…
PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison in the US – March 2025
The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as…
The Last of Us’ post-apocalyptic homophobia reveals its shallow setting
Just like the season before it, The Last of Us season 2 walks a line between faithfully adapting its source’s already cinema-inspired material and expanding on that material to meet the medium of television. And so, as players watched in 2020’s The Last of Us Part 2 and viewers watched a few weeks ago in…
