It’s currently rated the best action game of 2026
Phantom Blade Zero Reviews Call It An ‘Incredibly Well Tuned’ Adventure With ‘Brilliant Weapon Design’


It’s currently rated the best action game of 2026

Yoshinori Kitase and other Square Enix creatives also reflected on the SNES development of the Mana series

Another day, another company declaring that the current memory crisis driving RAM prices through the roof is far from over. This time it’s Micron, one of three firms – Samsung and SK Hynix are the others – which have been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing by a US lawsuit.

In my time as a videogame partaker, I have crawled through approximately three billion airvents. I may well have crawled through more vents than you’ve had hot dinners. As such, any videogame that can get me excited about loosening a barred hatch and hauling my heavy ass into a square tunnel is doing something right.
The Wild Gentlemen’s new sci-fi immersive sim RetroSpace gives pretty fair vent. It hides them all over. You’ll walk along a dilapidated, meandering corridor and your eye will be caught by a certain combination of shadows, flirtatiously screened by pipes. ‘Can I fit behind there?’ You ask yourself, and lo, you have revealed a shortcut to the head engineer’s office. Elsewhere, switches peek from behind stacks of luggable crates, and bent guard-rails draw your eye to a footwide ledge leading around the next pillar.
In general, RetroSpace does a nice job of squirrelling secrets into even the smallest chambers, and if the secret is very often a “rocket doughnut” or other inventory-clogging flotsam, sensing the prize and snuffling after it is a thrill. I hope the thrill will intensify as RetroSpace goes on, perhaps leaving a few of its obvious influences behind.