Ristar24 Thank you! Yeah its the frame pacing that was the worst culprit - just being slower would have been one thing, but it was actually skipping and lagging and argh it was awful for no apparant reason other than laziness or not caring on Sony's part. I feel like maybe they saw it as a novelty product and outsourced it to another company - but it should never have made it through quality control. Honorable mentions: Jennifer Lawrence, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Zelda voice actress Patricia Summersett More than 100 major video game releases are expected in 2023, from highly anticipated RPGs like Starfield, Final Fantasy 16, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, to new, mainline entries in series like Marvel’s Spider-Man, Assassin’s Creed, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter, and the long-awaited return of franchises like Diablo, Armored Core, and Pikmin. Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X) — Oct. 24

Disney Speedstorm (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — April 18 (early access) Given those criteria, we ultimately settled on Idris Elba. When considering that we expect Ganondorf to be a combination of practical effects with a part-CGI body, it'd be more Elba's sultry voice doing the work. We already saw how well he's done with voice work in both Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. As for social media, you're right i don't really use it much for my mental health, as you can probably tell by how much I type in replies here, its hard for me to not spend endless hours replying to everyone all day, especially if people say mean thing or criticise me or my work, I try and make friends with everyone and thats a battle you can't ever win. Its safer for me to be mostly unreachable except when I appear at dedicated events like Comic Cons, Play Expos, Star Wars Celebration etc.

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The Timeless Adventures of Hazel Witch" (coming out in maybe 18 monthsish) My biggest project, about a little girl witch and her friendly pet bat Chirp. When you are in indoor areas (many castles, her Hogwarts style school, villages with houses etc) its a metroidvania similar to "Symphony of the Night" with full rpg style upgrades, weapon and magic system etc, and with Dizzy/Resident Evil style invetory puzzles, but in outside areas its more like a Sonic style platformer, or a Cotton style shmup when she's on her broom. Its also fully voice acted with a story, similar to Freedom Planet. We have big plans for Hazel, hopefully many games in the series (ala the Dizzy games), merch including plushies, comics and either an animated series or movie - my "day job" is I'm a movie & TV producer. An American Pizza in Woking" (coming out soon) which is a top down game about running a 90s style Pizza Restaurant and retro Arcade during the day, then turning into a werewolf and eating all the customers at night! Then cleaning up the mess ready to reopen again the next morning. It plays like a pretty unique mix between Overcooked, Theme Park, and Pac-Man... difficult to explain but it totally makes sense when you play it and theres a really fun sense of humour, lots of puns, fun visual touches etc. The first game is simple arcade fun, but assuming its successful we have a planned sequel in mind with multiple restaurants in different areas/themes, multiplayer, and the ability to design your own restaurants from scratch.

You get bonuses for selling their leftover meat, taking their wallets & phones, recycling their clothes, even government bonuses for reducing surplus population! There's quite a dark sense of humour to the writing in it with a lot of minor social commentary about working for big faceless corporations in thankless minimum wage zero hour jobs... this sense of humour is also reflected by the title - of course, "An American Pizza in Woking" is a take on "An American Werewolf in London", but also the news stories about Prince Andrew... so I made a game about a dangerous predator in a Pizza restaurant in Woking...😂 Ristar24 Thank you! No I didn't but I remember seeing that it existed for the C64/Spectrum/Amstrad and wondering if it was related to the Warren Zevon song or the old B-Movie! I just looked it up and I see its got a day night cycle where you play a human during the day and werewolf at night - that's cool! Nothing makes me feel happier when I meet someone at a convention and they tell me how one of my projects has affected their family in some little way - becoming an injoke between a couple, someone naming their kid after a character in a film I worked on, something I created helping them get through a hard time. I even wrote a line in a Star Wars movie that ended up becoming a trending hashtag and rallying cry for the women's rights movement and I love that I accidentally ended up inspiring and helping so many people.

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Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — March 9 You can follow progress on the channel. Here's footage of the 8bit platform games so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUTkCp485BA Minecraft Legends (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — April 18 This was a difficult choice given how many young actresses could capably fill the role of Princess Zelda. We ultimately decided on Kiernan Shipka, the young 24-year-old actress who first made her name as Sally Draper in Mad Men and much more recently played the lead role on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This makes her no stranger to roles involving magic and staring down ultimate evils. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — March 3

This calendar is based on the action adventure game and features imagery of characters such as link and princess zelda alongside a. MythForce (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — Sept. 12 Pokémon Scarlet And Violet: The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero – The Teal Mask (Nintendo Switch) – Sept. 13 Colossal Cave (Mac, Meta Quest 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X) — Jan. 19 In the 1980s, when I was very little (probably around 6 years old?) my dad taught me basic programming on an old 1970s Commodore PET. We couldn't afford videogames til I was a young teenager, so as I got older and better at programming I used to make my own versions of games I wanted - Sonic, Mario, Dizzy, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tetris... I eventually learned machine code and managed to push that system to its absolute limits, waay further than it was ever designed to be pushed - all because I really wanted to play those games! lol

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The sad thing is, all these complaints and many others I could name, are tiny and easy to fix, and yet Nintendo ignores the calls. This is why when they randomly DO do something that fans have been calling out for, for so long that it feels they never will, its such a pleasant surprise when they finally do. Thousand Year Door is a perfect example. And its moments like that that make it hard to be too mad at them! lol

Knowing and caring about these different issues with scaling pixel graphics like you mention was one of teh driving factors for me creating my own game engine from scratch, to make sure all of this is 100% right from the start - but also having every possible (valid!) preference available for those that want them. Personally, I'm a "crispy pixels" guy but I'm quite proud of teh custom CRT shader I made for the people who want that because its one of the most customisable ones I've seen so people can fine tune exactly the look that they prefer - even down to recreating RF noise interferance and the curvature of old glass screens, light rolloff at the edges etc. for those that like a "true" analogue feel of their old rubbish quality portanble tvs in their bedroom 😅 Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — May 23Naturally, there are going to be questions regarding the Zelda series' timeline and when the movie would take place. For the purpose of this feature, we're going to assume that the movie will take place during the era of Breath of the Wild and this year's big follow-up, Tears of the Kingdom. Link AEW Fight Forever (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — June 29 The Expanse: A Telltale Series (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — July 27 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) — Aug. 18 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox One) — Jan. 31