Category: Reviews

There are few franchises that balance tone as well as Like a Dragon. Every game in the series is a delicate balancing act between melodramatic cutscenes and playful minigames, a mixture that’s very easy to get wrong. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the eighth mainline game in the series, is the poster child of that balancing act. Everything about it, from its themes to its mechanics, is about balance. Infinite Wealth is a direct sequel to Yakuza: Like a Dragon in every sense of the word. While previous Yakuza/Like a Dragon games have been fairly standalone outside of a few…

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus specs: Cores / Threads: 24 (8 P-cores, 16 E-cores) / 24 Base clock speed: 3.7GHz (P-cores), 3.2GHz (E-cores) Max Turbo Boost speed: 5.5GHz (P-cores), 4.7GHz (E-cores) Motherboard socket: LGA 1851 Motherboard chipset: Intel 800 series Unlocked for overclocking: Yes Max Turbo power: 250W Price: £TBA / $300 Regardless of whether Intel would say it out loud, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus both represent an attempt to right the wrongs of the original Arrow Lake/Core Ultra 200S family. That bundle of chips was, necessarily, more power-efficient and cooler-running…

Image: Razer Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Can the Razer Kraken Pro 4 score particularly well with haptic feedback in VR? Find out in our test. As a tech-savvy journalist and VR fan, I’m always on the lookout for new technologies that intensify the gaming experience. Today I’m taking a look at the Razer Kraken 4 Pro gaming headset. In particular, I’m looking at its interaction with Quest 3. Haptic feedback is a fascinating technology that takes virtual reality to a new level by combining…

Unseen Diplomacy 2 makes excellent use of roomscale play that’s let down by a finicky inventory system and a few unpolished details.Unseen Diplomacy 2’s big party trick is “Environmental Redirection,” a roomscale design system that has players physically walking around their real-world space while the game subtly changes the environment around them. The result is that the player feels as if they’re moving through a massive continuous level without requiring a massive real-world play space. And it (mostly) works. After setting up a roomscale boundary in-game, and once the game confirmed this boundary to be large enough to suit, I…

Image via Clear River Games Us getting a localized version of WiZmans World about 16 years after its 2010 Japanese debut on the DS is wild. A part of me wants to suggest people grab it and try it to help show there’s a demand for these sorts of releases and see what this snapshot of past JRPGs is like. Fortunately, WiZmans World Re;Try is mechanically interesting due to the Anima Fusion system, though it does get incredibly repetitive due to grinding to conquer dungeons.  In WiZmans World Re;Try, a whole town is kept captive. Everyone in Wizarest is dealing…

Back when Panic’s Playdate handheld launched, Ratcheteer ended up being one of its launch window games. Now under four years later, this little The Legend of Zelda like title is back as Ratcheteer DX. It’s still a solid game, just more accessible to a wider audience, and the new design choices ensure it still pays tribute to those early Game Boy and Game Boy Color action-RPGs.  Ratcheteer DX takes place in a world in which people live in colonies, and our avatar is a rookie who helps maintain the machines for it. However, something’s tampering with the mechanisms keeping people…

Bootstrap Island exits Early Access as a fully realized VR survival adventure that stands up to any top game in the genre.I openly admit when I played Bootstrap Island in Early Access over a year ago, I wrote it off as a single-mechanic glorified tech demo without much staying power beyond chasing leaderboards for ‘the most nights survived.’ I admit this to kick off this 1.0 release review because Maru VR’s work should be commended. This is a prime example of how to use Early Access correctly.The FactsWhat is it?: A tropical island survival gamePlatforms: Steam (a PlayStation VR2 port…

Image: Vertigo Studios Amsterdam / Plaion Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. The Metro series from 4A Games enjoys cult status among shooter fans. Now it is celebrating its VR debut with Metro Awakening. Does Vertigo Games succeed? If you ask shooter fans about the best post-apocalyptic shooters, the Metro series by 4A Games will often be the answer. Since November 7th, you can experience this universe in VR for the first time. Not only on powerful PCs and the PSVR 2, but also on Quest…

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection didn’t “wow” me. Its story is adequately entertaining, its combat is sometimes tedious, and I wouldn’t consider it a “must-play” role-playing game. Still, my time playing was pleasant more often than not, and I was glad to revisit the Monster Hunter universe just over a year after completing Monster Hunter Wilds. Twisted Reflection’s greatest achievement is gifting the series with a gorgeous facelift and bringing it to modern consoles. Even though its monsters’ fire breath didn’t quite blow me away, the flames were a treat to watch. In Twisted Reflection, you portray the prince…

WWE 2K26 doesn’t make the most compelling case for long-time players to upgrade. Sure, the roster has ballooned, its presentation is stronger than ever, and there are small improvements in some areas. But the subtle gameplay tweaks are neither exciting nor overtly perceptible, and certain modes take unwelcome steps backwards.Describing annual sports games as “more of the same with a few tweaks” is boring and not entirely helpful, but WWE 2K26 fits that description more than any recent entry. The usual modes are present, and existing fans can pick up and play the game with minimal new onboarding lessons. While…