That’s Square Enix/Deck Nine. Dontnod haven’t been involved with LiS since LiS2.
Their latest titles were Jusant, Lost Records, Banishers: Ghosts of Eden, and Aphelion. They also published The Lonesome Guild that I know of, which unfortunately didn’t sell well either.
This is something straight out of a parody movie, and even then, it would sound absurd.
What the heck is even going on in the US right now.
Just download the most recent/updated for each of the regions (JP, EU, USA), although you’ll almost certainly only need the US one.
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I skipped the PS2 gen entirely when I was a kid (went from PS1 to X360), so I don’t have fond memories either, but I have a few titles in my bucket list that I’ve played/been wanting to play for a while now.
Since you liked Shadow of the Colossus, you should try Ueda’s other PS2 game, Ico. It’s very sweet.
As a huge Ace Combat nerd, I also recommend the PS2 trilogy (Ace Combat 04, 5 and Zero). My favourite of the three is 04, which has a more grounded and somber story and consistently good gameplay. 5 is like a Tom Cruise action movie, but I find the gameplay subpar compared to the others. Zero is like the MGR: Revengeance of Ace Combat lol
Zone of the Enders 2 is my favourite mecha game ever, with exhilarating battles, an awesome soundtrack and great set pieces (the Crevasse battle is absolutely humongous and I still can’t believe that nothing similar was ever replicated on consoles that are thousands of times more powerful than a PS2).
The game’s got a re-release on modern consoles and Steam, and you can mod it to have Jap dub (which you probably want, the Eng dub is atrocious) with Eng subs, which for some reason is still not an option in the official release.
If you like mascotte platformers, I’ve heard great things about Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, Jax. I’ve only played a few levels of the former and it gave me huge motion sickness, though :/
There’s also Klonoa, but i think that one’s got a remastered version on modern platforms nowadays.
People mostly remember the Final Fantasy titles, but there are a LOT of JRPG games on PS2, although I haven’t played them myself and I can’t attest to their quality (sometimes people’s nostalgia is just… Off the charts lol).
Star Ocean: Till the end of times is consistently praised among both the Star Ocean community and the larger JRPG crowd. I can’t attest to that as I don’t have nearly enough time to play a JRPG title nowadays, but I liked the PS1 title (2nd story), and I’ve always heard people putting it above or slightly below that one, so it looks like I’m missing out.
I’ve also heard good things about other titles such as Rogue Galaxy, Ar Tonelico, Grandia 3, Legaia 2 (I’m very fond of the first one, although the story was nothing to write home about), Wild Arms, a few Tales Of titles, and probably many more I’m forgetting about. Maybe look out for some of those if you’re into the genre.
Both Duckstation (PS1 emulator) and PCSX2 (PS2 emulator) are quick and easy to set up nowadays, but you have to download the bios file, which I guess is the “super illegal” file you were talking about.
It’s as easy as typing “ps1 bios download” on Google though.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Same in Italy. I’ve seen police/army booths in all gaming conventions I’ve took part in, even years before the the Ukraine war.
Maybe it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m not particularly offended by it. I think it makes sense for cyber security/high tech jobs to look for recruits in a place that’s full of nerds that could fit the criteria. And I also know that there are many train/aviation/weapons enthusiasts in the gaming world who could do that shit for a living.
That being said, I don’t think that a recruitment booth in a gaming convention is particularly effective at reaching potential candidates. If somebody wanted to join the army, they probably already did. I don’t know anyone who was on the fence, and decided to enlist after visiting the army booth in a gaming convention lol
I suppose, if they keep doing it, that it’s somehow more effective than I think it is?
Following gaming news has become increasingly exhausting in the last decade. GamerGate has never truly ended, its shadow’s been pervasive of the entire discourse on videogames for years. Every AAA game is an excuse to rant about the (perceived) political agenda of its writers or the art team or whatever.
I disagree with the final take of the video, though. While moderation and companies taking a stance is certainly necessary, the main problem is that the social media algorithm feeds on this kind of discourse and amplifies it because it increases engagement. There can never be enough moderation to silence these trolls because you cannot moderate all platforms and all places, and the trolls outnumber the developers (and with AI on the rise, the numbers are even more stacked in favour of online trolls).
There will be no solution to this problem for as long as social media is run the way it is at the moment.
I got the base game for free on GoG after playing it once on Gamepass a few years back, now I get the two expansions + remastered as well lol
Child me would be amazed at how easy it is to play AAA games without spending a dime nowadays. I grew up with a dozen or so games and that was it because my father didn’t want to spend more money on videogames lol
A huge and influential name in the gaming industry.
But the game business has changed and it’s just not as much fun for me anymore. Plus there’s a new generation of developers coming up who deserve their time in the sun.
I recently had the opportunity and honor to talk to another name from my childhood (Martin Edmondson), and he told me the same thing: the gaming industry is too alien to him now than what he experienced a few decades ago. More complex, less wiggle room, a lot to take in account for even for smaller scope games.
I like the hopeful tone at the end of the message, though.
To all of you reading this I want you to remember that games are not a solved problem yet – there is, I hope, plenty of experimentation and innovation to come. And to all you young developers out there, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, your job is to make people forget people like me ever existed.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget him and many like him, but I hope the new generation of developers will be up to the task to experiment and innovate even in an industry that has been suffering so much in the last few years.
To the people who want to buy a game on GoG that is included in the 2nd class citizen list, it’s worth messaging the game’s publisher. I did that when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist, and the publisher responded almost immediately, and in less than a week it was updated on the store to the same version as Steam.
YMMV of course, but it’s worth the try.
Also, the GoG team is aware of the issue, and they started an effort in August (EDIT: May) 2026 to tackle it and reduce the length of the list. It’s a shame that’s not been included in the article, because they’ve been making bi-weekly updates since and they’ve been pretty consistent so far.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/from_good_to_great_improving_our_games_together
Remakes are usually a miss for me, but I like seeing attempts at building upon pre-existing games. I draw the line at “building upon” instead of “replacing/reimagining” the original, though.
For example, someone else already mentioned that Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green are miles bette than the originals, and really great games in and of themselves. Although nowadays I only play rom hacks that fix some of the more… Weird and annoying design choices (running shoes, national dex, etc).
Resident Evil 1 Remake is my favourite horror game of all time, which is funny because I don’t care much about the OG RE1. It takes what worked in the original (the mansion map), improves upon that, and adds more stuff, including the Crimson Heads which are my favourite mechanic in any RE game (and I’m sad it never was reused elsewhere).
On the contrary, I love the OG RE2 and was very disappointed with the remake. It botches the story and completely shits on the characters to the point that I felt disgusted by it, even though from a gameplay standpoint it feels and plays great, and I love the RPD redesign.
Spyro is one of the first games I ever played, and I absolutely adore what they did with Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I consider it the best way to play those games outside of nostalgia.
I also would never recommend playing Yakuza over Yakuza Kiwami, which is just the same game, but better in every way. The English dub in the original is bad, the combat is clunkier, and the story is better explained and tied up in the remake. There’s also a lot more content all around, including the Majima Everywhere system, which is a debated topic within the OG fandom, but I found it hilarious.
Hello, I come from the future, please tell your Floridian friends to vote Blue in the next election (and ask them to tell the same to their friends). Just a few hundred would suffice.
Trust me, it’s really, really important.
Sorry, maybe I didn’t make myself clear.
Yes, it’s spelled out clearly for these 4 games in early release. As I said, I was thinking ahead. Lots of 360 games I own are not available to buy anymore, unfortunately. If this BC program only affects digital licences, it will be a bummer.
I seem to remember they were looking into ways to convert disc into digital licenses, so maybe that’s how they are planning to do it.
After the head of the BC program got sacked in the last round of layoffs, I lost all hope about it going anywhere in the near future. I’m happy I was proven wrong.
What’s not clear in the linked article is how to access the BC games: do I need to buy them from the store, or is a disc allowed like on Xbox console?
A lot of BC games have been delisted over the years, so being able to access them via disc would be great. It’s not an immediate concern as they only made four games available on PC, but I’m thinking ahead.
SAO is a light novel/anime series centered primarily around the eponymous MMORPG and its sequels. Despite this, most (all?) licenced games are single player.
Yep.
AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
Some of the store page artwork for this game was created with the assistance of generative AI image tools. The game itself does not use or generate AI content at runtime.
There’s no way a dev is lazy enough to generate their game’s Steam page with AI, and not use it during development as well.
Appreciate the heads-up.
For those new to the store: as always, GoG giveaway require the user to subscribe to their newsletter, but you can simply get the game, then go to your profile -> Orders and Settings -> Subscriptions, and turn it off again.