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PS5 jailbreak proves the console could've been backwards compatible with PS2 all along
All it took was six years and a massive jailbreak to get PS2 support
Moonlighter dev delays Steam playtest for its "Tower Defensevania" ReVamp over concerns that AI copycats might clone it before launch
Digital Sun - the indie studio behind moreish roguelike Moonlighter and moody RTS Cataclismo - has delayed a planned Steam playtest for its next game, ReVamp, citing concerns over "games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published before the original is even out." Read more
PEGI begins moving existing digital-only games with loot boxes up to a 16 rating
Existing digital-only games that include paid random items, such as loot boxes, are being re-rated PEGI 16 if they currently carry a PEGI 3, 7, or 12 rating. Read more
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Hard Mode is available from the start this time, so you won't need to replay the mammoth RPG to get to the good stuff
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will let players access Hard Mode from the very beginning of the journey, unlike FF7 Remake and Rebirth, which made folks complete the mammoth adventures before unlocking the tougher difficulty option. Read more
Talking Point: How Did You First Encounter Zelda: Ocarina Of Time?
Fairy Tales. In case you haven't noticed, another chance to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is on the horizon. The coming 5th November release date for the Switch 2 remake has got us diving into our OoT memory banks and feeling all nostalgic about where our love for the game began — after all, you can replay it as many times as you like, but you only get a 'first playthrough' once. For most of us here at Nintendo Life Towers, those early memories take us back to the N64, though some people will have first encountered the game through the GameCube, its 3DS remake or the NSO library. Heck, you might not have even heard of this little-known curio until Nintendo announced it for Switch 2 (we doubt that will be many of you reading this, but hey, there's a chance). Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Arc Raiders player numbers hit a six-month high following the release of the extraction shooter's huge Frozen Trails update
Arc Raiders is still going strong almost a year after finding viral success, and it's all thanks to Embark Studios' one-two-punch strategy of launching a huge new update, Frozen Trails, to coincide with a free weekend. Read more
"Too big a risk": Moonlighter devs delay new game's demo for fear of genAI cloning, calling on platforms to "keep strengthening protections for original work"
Moonlighter and Cataclismo developers Digital Sun Games have postponed a public Steam playtest for their new game ReVamp , for fear of people using generative AI to clone their work before release. Read more
I have added completely realistic Uber driving to Grand Theft Auto 5
Your driver is nearby.
"Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something": Art legend calls out AI billionaires
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney backs an AI-first push across the company
The Last of Us inspired Resident Evil 7 because Capcom "wanted the critical acclaim"
The execs were happier with Resident Evil 6 than you might think
Wizards of the Coast declines to voluntarily recognize D&D and Studio X union drive
Wizards of the Coast is refusing to grant voluntary recognition to a union drive by its Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X teams. Staff will instead vote on joining in a secret-ballot election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. Read more
Anime Galaxies codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for Gems, Trait Crystals, and more
Codes for Anime Galaxies give you a decent amount of Gems and Trait Crystals, alongside Stat Tokens and Stat Locks
"I was a real anglophile": A Canadian's obsession with Viz magazine is why Grand Theft Auto: London's streets are covered in dogs' eggs
The Grand Theft Auto games have a long history of being made by developers who live far from their source material. The original game and its mainline sequels have all been led by Rockstar North, housed in a decidedly not US-based Edinburgh. But, even when it came to a comparatively local GTA mission pack set in London, the team chose instead to ask their newly acquired Canadian team to handle the development work. It didn't matter that only a few people on the team had actually been to London before. Yet, that distance, as proven across the series grants the developers a more incisive view of a place, one that focuses more on a setting's cultural rendering than its reality. As evidenced by Grand Theft Auto: London's dog shit. Read more
Edgerunners 2 and Resident Evil prove that game worlds, not characters, make the best adaptations
From Raccoon to Night, game cities with new stories are thriving on screens big and small alike
Tomb Raider remake boss says the game has to leave moments that bring "the most emotions" untouched
"As we bring the level of realism up, there are some things from the original we struggle to justify."
Palworld devs don't want to just "release 100 new Pals with the next update," says Pocketpair lead
Developers "try to add Pals in a meaningful way" every time
You can make this DIY controller in six hours and for less than 12 bucks—but would you want to?
I think I'll stick with my GameSir Nova Lite.
The Witcher 3 Remastered's Latest Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
A Switch 2 special. After being announced earlier this month, CD Projekt Red has today released its latest update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered , and it even packs in some console-specific changes for Switch 2. Ver 5.01 has started rolling out in most regions today (the dev notes that it'll launch in Japan once it passes certification), covering all things from gameplay tweaks to UI quirks. On Switch 2 specifically, the update has improved "visual clarity and fidelity" and patched some bugs that were present at launch. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"
Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony's discontinuation of game discs is probably a "mentality issue". He understands it, he noted, but that doesn't make it "economically reasonable" for Sony to keep printing them. Read more
"Sexy sorceresses" and "bare-chested fighters": Dragon Age's original artists wanted to base it on Conan the Barbarian, much to the outrage of the designers
Buried in the vast and sooty-fingered Summer Eternal anthology , there's an interview with former BioWare developer and Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider, who is now creative director at Stray Gods outfit Summerfall Studios. The interview is a podcast-length account of BioWare's transformations over Gaider's career, stretching back to Baldur's Gate 2 . Amongst other things, it explains why the Dragon Age games feel so different from sequel to sequel. Gaider discusses the original trilogy's fortunes under RPG-phobic parent company Electronic Arts, commenting that 2009's Dragon Age: Origins made it to release partly thanks to "sunk cost" thinking after EA bought the studio. He also talks about Dragon Age's lack of a properly defined vision, early on, which led to a lot of overcorrection between releases. As regards Origins, there was something of a faction war initially between departments over what exact flavour of fantasy fiction the new RPG should draw on. Read more
The Finals Season 12 lets Scotty roast you by name, and I'm not sure we're ready
The Finals Season 12 introduces dynamic commentary, as Scotty calls out players by username, but I’m already worried about the outcome.
AYANEO Offers Shipping Updates on Its Pocket Advance, Pocket Block, and Pocket Micro 2 Handhelds
Some coming sooner than expected, and others... AYANEO has released a shipping update for its range of current and upcoming handheld consoles. The updated info, shared by RetroHandhelds , arrived in an email sent to backers and pre-order customers. The bad news first: The company has stated there have been further delays in the shipping of its super-cute Pocket Micro 2 , which was initially expected to begin shipping later this month. AYANEO now expects the Pocket Micro 2 to ship in "early November", citing the late arrival of certain build components. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Cat Battles codes (October 2026)
Here are all of the new Roblox Cat Battles codes that you can redeem for free coins to spend on cosmetics.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake borrows one of Breath of the Wild's most immersive features
Nintendo knows many of you don't want your hand held, so the game offers the option to turn off the UI