Recent content by Steve Y

What a bummer! Sorry you had to learn this way. Region locking has long been a pain, but in recent years companies have been less stringent about region-locking - call it a more "international" approach, from Japanese Switch cartridges working in North America without any mods to being able to...

What an amazing collection, brings back memories. I still have all of my PS2 discs, so I was able to transfer my favorites to my Steam Deck. It's especially great to have games with licensed music and art that will NEVER get re-released digitally (like Frequency and Amplitude and the original...

I "cycle" through all my consoles. It usually amounts to (at most) 2-3 hours on a weekend, maybe an hour on some weekdays. Some days nothing at all. Lately I'm playing (for example) old Activision games for the 2600 on the Steam Deck, Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PC, Power Wash Simulator on...

That's how I feel about this launch. I'll be watching with interest, but not the usual pre-order anxiety. After nearly snapping the plastic in half upgrading the M.2 SSD and downloading several TB of games, I think I'm good for a while. I'm mostly happy with the performance, and while I think...

Two Google engineers have managed to get the PPSSPP emulator running natively on the PS Portal

I'm addicted to Balatro. Don't let the fact that it's been described as a "deck-building poker roguelike" dissuade you. Despite it being about playing poker hands, it's NOT poker. You can play strange joker cards (there are 150 in total) for various effects, or increase the value of hands or...

The Kojima spy game looks intriguing, but I will be especially excited if it turns out to be a laserdisc-style FMV game like Mad Dog McCree. 😆

Anyone catch the Sony's State of Play yesterday? Here are all the trailers. These are the games in the list I'm most excited about: Death Stranding 2 - On the Beach: More insanity from Kojima. I know this series is insufferable to some, but I love the deliberate, moody, non-combat-centered...

People bag on Baker because he's hired for everything with a budget, but I think his take on Ford's "Indy voice" is really good. His natural voice is not so far off from that, so I think it was a good choice.

I loved the three Wolfenstein games they made (The New Order / Old Blood, and The New Colossus), especially in the character and storytelling department. The writing is also really smart. I have little doubt they'll have the technical chops to create a game that feels kinetic and fun, but the...

The game's POV will be like Cyberpunk 2077: First person for most of the action, with some pull-back into third person for specific actions like climbing. Also, MachineGames has honed FPS and first-person gameplay, so I wouldn't want them to go into... let's call it "uncharted" territory. I am...

The game broke my heart because it's doing so many things right. Mostly in the gameplay and visual space (and in some of the world-building). Admittedly I only got halfway up the icy mountain in Chapter 2. Do Valere and Zale get more compelling? Garl was the only character in whom I felt...

I didn't like Sea of Stars, but I loved the visuals and animation. I also started Cocoon this week! It's not groundbreaking, but it's very cool. I started the game Jusant on PS5, a climbing simulator set in an apocalyptic world. It uses games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus for inspiration...

Sure. As a consumer and enthusiast, I can get my game news and announcements from anywhere now. E3 isn't needed for studios or publishers to build hype for their games. But as an in-person networking event for industry folks and journalists (and not just the game side), it was unbeatable. None...

According to some, SGF and TGA are not viable replacements for E3 (yet), apart or together. This is much what I'm hearing from my contacts in the industry. But none of them have proposed a viable alternative.