I already use the iPhone for cloud gaming with a Backbone, if you get the Max model, the screen is decent enough (but for that price, you have better options).

I wouldn’t be surprised if you can hook your USB-C iPhone to a Steam Deck or Switch dock to play it on the TV.

That’s not much of an issue with Apple users, they’d pay if it’s worth it. Since Macs use the same architecture, I am sure they are the same games on both Mac and iOS. Allowing you to own both versions would make the price more attractive. Some apps already let you do that.

The Backbone still has one major flaw: It’s incompatible with phone cases, which 99% of people who use an iPhone own. Pulling out your case every time you want to play a game makes you almost not want to use it. Hopefully Backbone (or Razer, which competes directly with it) will solve that problem with a new model.

Square thinks that dumping a massive budget in a game is going to make it a success. Two big budget flops, Forespoken and Final Fantasy XVI. Forespoken simply sucked, a lost opportunity for a new IP. Final Fantasy XVI was a series of one bad decision after the next, making it an outdated linear action RPG-lite,…

One thing that bothers me, which actually became a meme with Cowboy Bebop, is the bleached color palette. I had to get used a little bit to the excessive use of fisheye lens closeups, but I could never get past the ugly color filter.

My only concern was when I saw on the trailer the similarities with No Man’s Sky, a game that has a 6-year headstart adding features and still is in constant development. Its last expansion was released practically hours ago.

Wait, what? Isn’t Resident Evil 4 remake, Baldur’s Gate 3, Hogwart’s Legacy and Armored Core 6 AAA enough for you? I doubt you have seen a Steam Deck, not to mention even owning one, based on your comment.

I wasn’t surprised the producer of Final Fantasy XVI did not understand that JRPG is a profitable marketing term that has a wide fanbase, after his condescending explanation for his game’s lack of racial diversity. The game is bombing after the initial sales. They blame it on PS5 exclusivity, but Tears of The Kingdom…

I’ll wait until it’s approved by the EU, probably the only legislative body on the planet that still fights for consumer protections.

Those “conservatives” love to whine they’re being censored, because they refuse to accept that most people truly don’t want to spend their time on social media scrolling through their slurs. What they call “the narrative they want you to believe” is preferable to their stream of false information that has translated…

My concern is that in this rush to the Twitter exit, we’re giving away our data to the other bad guy, and someday our AI likeness will end up as an NPC in the metaverse, and Zuckerberg will own all the rights to it.

I like the pixel remakes, but I would spend money again if they do some 3D versions in the style of Link’s Awakening remake.

Fans are still experiencing Parasite Eve PSP shooter PTSD.

To me, the golden era of Battlefield was Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3 and 4, with 3 being the canonical top title. I think some readers gravitate around the same games too.

To me Final Fantasy is about putting together a band of misfits (including a character named Cid) to battle some god at the end. Managing their inventories, skills, and optimizing the battle strategies must be part of the mix.

This game is missing that important ingredient. Again, I think the misguided decision of…

I wouldn’t say Europe was “attacked” but the continent was indeed the world’s melting pot in Medieval times (and the Black Death was a consequence of it, enhanced by the lack of urban higiene of the period). Europe, specially Medieval Europe, was never ethnically nor racially monolithic. The Jews moved into the…

I was thinking that while this game made very good improvements in its combat system, and the cinematic battles, it seems that it still lags behind of what people expect in a modern RPG. Branching stories and romanceable NPCs have been a staple of RPGs for decades, but you only get in this game what’s scripted. That…

There’s no revisionism here, Europe has never been as racially monolithic as it’s represented in this game, specially in medieval times, when the Moors occupied a big chunk of Southern Europe, the Golden Horde a big chunk of the East, that’s not even counting groups like the Roma, who can be traced all the way back to…

Producer Naoki Yoshida told IGN in November 2022 that the design concept always focused on the “historical, cultural, political, and anthropological standards” of medieval Europe.