Riot Games has announced that its mega-popular free-to-play shooter Valorant will finally land on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S this year, and interested console players can try out the game very soon. Rumors of Valorant coming to console platforms have been circulating for years, and Riot finally made it official during the Summer Game Fest ceremony. View the full article
Developer Derek Yu cemented his statues as an indie gaming legend when he first released Spelunky as Mossmouth in 2008. His follow-up project would be UFO 50, an ambitious collection of fifty different retro games. but somewhere along the way, it seems to have disappeared. The last time we saw it, it was...well, this writer wants to say PAX 2018 at the latest. Since then, things seem to have gone quiet, even as Mossmouth put out Spelunky 2, until UFO 50 made a surprise re-emergence at tonight's Day of the Devs showcase...well, it wasn't a surprise to those who live in the ***, as it was the cover story in last month's issue of Edge. Or if you paid attention to Derek's Twitter account, where you'd see him explicitly say that the game would be in the showcase. Look, it was a surprise to this writer, okay? Besides, Derek did indeed have one surprise in store: A release date for UFO 50! View the full article
Pocketpair has announced plans to launch a major Palworld expansion this month. Arriving in the form of the Sakurajima update on June 27, it will introduce a new island for players to explore, plus new Pals and subspecies. It will also add dedicated servers on Xbox, new buildings, a new level cap, a new raid, an oil rig stronghold, and a PvP arena mode. Read More... View the full article
Production studio Blumhouse announced a move into videogames in 2023 with a new division called Blumhouse Games, which it said will "partner with independent game developers to bring their creative vision to life via original, horror-themed games." Today we got our look at the very first project to come out of that effort, and it certainly seems to fit that billing... Read more.View the full article
UFO 50 is a collection of fictional retro games designed as if they were made for a non-existent games console 40 years ago, but in reality have been developed as brand new titles for an upcoming collection from indie devs including Spelunky creator Derek Yu. With the ambitious project nearing a decade in its own development, though, those games have now taken on their own real history in addition to their made-up one. Those histories will meet this September, when UFO 50 finally sees the light of day. Read more View the full article
Brutal, unforgiving fantasy FPS dungeon adventure Dark and Darker is now available in early access again, and best of all, it’s staying free to play. Dark and Darker‘s release date was announced during the Summer Games Fest on June 7. For those foolish or brave enough to enter the devastating delves of an ancient citadel, you can begin your journey in early access today, June 7. View the full article
It’s only been a few weeks since The First Descendant‘s final technical test ended, but now, players are getting excited once more for the full release. At Summer Game Fest 2024, a new trailer revealed the official release date for the highly-awaited title—and it looks like summer is just starting to heat up. The official release date for The First Descendant has been set for Tuesday, July 2, which is less than a month away. This exciting title will transport its eager fanbase to a technologically advanced future with destructive enemies storming the Ingris Continent. View the full article
It would have made sense, right? A side scrolling Power Rangers arcade brawler in the style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time or Streets of Rage, but it never happened in the golden age of the genre. Following the arcade brawler's new lease on life in recent years, Digital Extremes is here to finally make it happen in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, with a reveal trailer having come out of today's Summer Game Fest showcase... Read more.View the full article
ccording to a fact on a website I've never heard of, the average person spends about five years of their life waiting in lines. Five whole years! Other sites I've never visited before say it's more like 3 years, or six months, or two weeks. The point is, never try to confirm a fact because it takes forever and there are no reliable answers anywhere, ever... Read more.View the full article
At the 2024 Summer Game Fest, Hasbro and Digital Eclipse pulled back the curtain on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, a 2D beat-em-up that features up to 5-player co-op play and various villains from the franchise. Players can assume control of the original five Power Rangers as they take on Rita Repulsa and her band of monsters. View the full article
A new trailer for Star Wars: Outlaws is finally here, giving players a glimpse of more of its gameplay and characters, including an iconic scoundrel from the original Star Wars trilogy, Lando Calrissian. As Star Wars: Outlaws gears up for release on August 30, more information and marketing for the game is beginning to appear to give fans more to be excited about. View the full article
Ahead of tonight's Day of the Devs showcase, it was revealed to us that there would new games from developers such as the husabnd-and-wife team of Cozy Game Pals. "Well, they sound like they're going to have something cute," we thought. So naturally, it turns out that their debut game is a throwback to '90s horror games with ***** the Spotlight, which as seen in the announcement trailer at this link, is as far from cozy as you can get. Notably, this also marks the debut for Blumhouse Games, after being founded early last year (NOTE: This article was written in advance before Blumhouse's showcase at Summer Game Fest earlier today, but yes, it is still Blumhouse's debut game, and the debut of the trailer). View the full article
Capcom has slowly been trickling little bits of info about Monster Hunter Wilds, the successor to 2018's Monster Hunter World, and we were lucky enough to see a little bit more of it during Summer Game Fest... Read more.View the full article
Survival and crafting sensation Palworld already stole dozens of hours of my life earlier this year and now it's trying to ******* my summer too. Pocketpair has been teasing its plans for the first major update to Palworld for this summer. In a new trailer at today's Summer Game Fest, it revealed lots of other items on the feature list along with a release date: June 27... Read more.View the full article
Before we get to the latest trailer for S-Game's soulslike Phantom Blade Zero I have a couple of complaints to lodge about the title. Firstly, this game clearly contains a non-zero quantity of blades, from whacking great axes to katanas. Secondly, I do not accept the premise that these are phantom blades. They are very obviously non-spectral, going by the amount of stabbing and clanging on show in the video. With these potentially ruinous caveats out of the way, I am now free to tell you more about a game that looks like it's out to eat Sekiro's lunch. Read more View the full article
Blumhouse Games has revealed its spine-chilling new project at Summer Games Fest. Only it isn’t just one project cooking; it’s a whole load of them. Blumhouse is primarily known as the movie studio behind modern horror blockbusters like The Conjuring, Insidious, and Sinister. In 2023, however, the studio branched out into games, and on June 7 revealed a whopping six titles. View the full article
The upcoming Harry Potter game based on the extremely popular Wizarding World sport, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, is releasing on September 3rd, 2024, and it will also be available as a day one PlayStation Plus release. While Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions was announced all the way back in April 2023 by Warner Bros. Games. View the full article
Upon seeing the reveal of Petal Runner at tonight's Day of the Devs showcase, one thought immediately came to this writer's head: "Good lord, that looks like the coziest game possible so far." Coming from iam8bit and ********* developers Nano Park Studios, the game is a slice-of-life RPG about a courier who delivers virtual pets to people that are literally powered by flowers and claibrated by playing minigames, with the help of a talking fox-like companion, all presented with a cute anime style in an homage to old-school Game Boy ****** games, down to the 8-bit pixel art with heavy doses of lavender. It's practically the gaming equivalent of a weighted blanket and the world's largest mug of hot cocoa, enjoyed in front of the toastiest fireplace possible. It almost feels like it heads toward dangerous levels of coziness, as if it were the comfy chair. If you don't believe us, check out the trailer below and see what vibes it gives you. View the full article
Fighting game enthusiasts were given a pleasant surprise at Summer Game Fest 2024 today when it was announced that Street Fighter 6 is getting four new characters added to the roster for year two. The four new characters include two familiar names in the Street Fighter franchise: M. Bison and Elena. But the devs are also bringing over Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui from the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters franchise. View the full article
The long-awaited return of EA’s Skate franchise, simply called Skate, is getting closer and closer to an eventual release with a console playtest confirmed for later this year. At Summer Game Fest in early June, the team at EA showed off pre-pre-alpha footage, which many focused on a team of skaters grinding around San Vansterdam, to the chagrin of the adversarial corporation M-Corp. In the trailer, the devs don’t promise an official date, but ensured players they’re “still working on it” right now. View the full article
Grid-based puzzler Grindstone was a favourite of Katharine’s, who found it to be her go-to during regularly scheduled moments of “cat-based paralysis”. I didn’t spent quite so many hours of feline enforced stasis with it, but I too was drawn in for a respectable time chunk. It’s those detail-stuffed visuals and caffeinated animations that tipped it for me, and it’s the same art that have me excited for Capybara’s follow-up. Battle Vision Network is an online puzzle battler that pits you head to head against real-life humans (boo those guys). The conceit here is its a televised space sport, in which you’ll steer the fate of its ongoing story arcs by winning or losing as your chosen team. Read more View the full article
Things that weren’t on my Summer Game Fest bingo card: a surprise appearance from I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson. Things also not on my Summer Geoff Fest bingo card: that Tim Robinson would show up to reassure us that, yes, Skate is still in the works. Read more View the full article
When the Summer Game Fest trailer for "narrative-centric cosy game" Wanderstop said it was from the creator behind The Stanley Parable, I thought I had surely entered a different dimension where The Stanley Parable was actually a wholesome shop-keeping sim rather than a zig-zagging office-based nightmare. Then Wanderstop started to get rather bleak, and I finally stopped pinching myself. See for yourself. Read more View the full article
There's a chance that when you think of developer Capybara Games, your mind goes towards more action-oriented titles like Super Time Force and Below. But upon closer inspection, it seems that their forte ***** in puzzlers games as well, having developed such games as Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Grindstone, the latter arguably being one of the best puzzle games in recent years, So it was quite the treat to see tonight's Day of the Devs showcase kick things off proper with the announcement of a new puzzle game from them, Battle Vision Network. As seen in its debut trailer below, it's bold, it's colorful, it's creative, it's insane, and it's something that might be a bit of a gamble, but one that could easily pay off big time if ********* properly. View the full article
Following last week’s big Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay reveal at Sony’s State of Play, which Capcom labelled “1st trailer”, we got another look at the highly-anticipated action RPG earlier today during Summer Game Fest’s showcase event. Wilds was actually one of the few confirmed games for the show, making for something of a double-header. Today's appearance brought us a first look at an entirely new monster, which we'll be taking on in the game. Read more View the full article
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Developer Derek Yu cemented his statues as an indie gaming legend when he first released Spelunky as Mossmouth in 2008. His follow-up project would be UFO 50, an ambitious collection of fifty different retro games. but somewhere along the way, it seems to have disappeared. The last time we saw it, it was...well, this writer wants to say PAX 2018 at the latest. Since then, things seem to have gone quiet, even as Mossmouth put out Spelunky 2, until UFO 50 made a surprise re-emergence at tonight's Day of the Devs showcase...well, it wasn't a surprise to those who live in the ***, as it was the cover story in last month's issue of Edge. Or if you paid attention to Derek's Twitter account, where you'd see him explicitly say that the game would be in the showcase. Look, it was a surprise to this writer, okay? Besides, Derek did indeed have one surprise in store: A release date for UFO 50! View the full article