Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has surpassed 500,000 sales, Level-5 has announced. While Fantasy Life i still has ways to go to match the studio's most successful titles, it's already looking like a big hit in its own right. View the full article
You ever wonder who the first person to put peanut butter and chocolate together was? Part of me feels like whoever it was must be loaded; I mean, you’ve combined two already great flavors into something that Reese’s would more or less build a whole brand on. And then part of me thinks it plays out like the hypothetical guy who invented the Chicken McNugget in The Wire. A pat on the back from a big shot, and then it’s back to the basement to figure out a way to make the fries taste better. I don’t know the answer; I hope it's the former. But every now and then, you come across an idea, a combination of things, that’s so good that you wonder how nobody’s ever done it before. And every time my squad and I sprinted back to our time-traveling dropship, stopping only to deal with the Time Reapers that stood in our way, I wondered how the hell nobody had ever said “Hey, what if we combined Overcooked and Gears of War?” pre-Pizza Bandit. Pizza Bandit’s setup is pretty simple. You’re Malik, a former bounty hunter with dreams of being a chef who is pulled back into the bounty game when he’s scammed out of his pizza shop and his former crew needs his help to get out of a jam. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. I can’t get mad when Albert, the android that upgrades your weapons, tells me he doesn’t know how to apologize for what happened to my pizza shop because he’s just an android, or when my pilot waxes nostalgic about how he misses the fog, or when someone utters the odd nonsensical line. It’s too silly, and the whole setup is just there to, well… set up Pizza Bandit’s wackiness. See, you’re not just any bounty-hunting crew. You’re a time-traveling bounty hunting crew, and that means you’ll be going all over space and time to get the job done. Don’t ask me how any of this works. All I know is that pizza heals and bullets kill, and that the Time Reapers — ****** little buggers that seem to be invading every timeline — don’t want this pizza shop owner to make any dough. And that’s not gonna fly. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. What makes Pizza Bandit unique is that you’re not just shooting stuff. You’re also, well, kinda playing Overcooked. After squading up, my first mission saw my crew (you can play with up to three friends) heading to the Restaurant from N owhere, a hidden outpost run by another bandit crew. Our job: fulfill the pizza orders for other bounty hunting teams, and send them off in time-traveling rocket pods. That meant putting together the right type of pizza, getting it to the oven, making sure we were getting their drink orders right, and adding some extra bullets for when things got spicy, cramming it all into a pod, and doing it on time while fighting off the Time Reapers, who really, really don’t like supporting small businesses. And that’s where the other part of the Overcooked/Gears of War marriage comes into play. See, the Time Reapers mean business, and you’re not going to talk them out of some time reaping. That’s their whole bag. The only solution, fellow bandit, is incredible violence. I’ve played several builds of Pizza Bandit at this point, and let me tell you, your arsenal is up to the task. You start with your choice of assau lt rifle, minigun, and sniper rifle, but the fun really begins when you start unlocking your secondary weapons by completing jobs. They start simple: landmines, grenades, that sort of thing, but once you unlock the disco ball that attracts enemies and gets them dancing before it explodes? Whew, buddy. And the sentry turret? Perfection. You could slice and dice them Time Reapers with a katana, but have you ever considered using a pizza slicer as big as a man? It’ll change your life. And the Time Reapers will force you to use everything in your arsenal. You got your standard guys who will just run at you, but there are also Time Reapers that’ll crawl around on all fours, Terminator-looking ones that will leap at you, giant ones with hammers, guys who throw fireballs (these can really ruin your day), the works. You gotta prioritize. Pizza Bandit is at its best when you’re with a good team, calling out orders. A good match should be shouts of “We need a pepperoni pie!” and “I’m on the Coke!” and “I’m down!” interspersed with lots and lots of gunfire. Simple choices, like when to call down your own, once-a-mission rocket pod full of pizza and supplies, and more complex ones, like where to put it (you can block off a stairway, for instance), spice things up, too. And here’s the thing: so far, I’ve just talked about Restaurant from Nowhere, which is only the first level. Pizza Bandit isn’t a one-trick pony. One of my favorite levels has you taking over a sushi joint and making sure you have the right stuff on the delivery turntable for your customers. Sometimes that means running downstairs and grabbing a big ol’ tuna, taking that bad boy upstairs, and chopping him up before the Time Reapers whack you and you drop him. Other times that means frying an egg, or making a cucumber roll. You gotta stay ahead of the curve, because new customers are prioritized over old ones, and the Time Reapers aren’t gonna sit there and wait for you to plate your masterpiece. Sometimes, you’re not even cooking food at all. Another favorite level, Wizard’s Tomb, has you exploring a magically booby-trapped tomb in search of a sarcophagus. You’ll have to navigate the tomb’s traps, solve basic puzzles to reveal the way forward, and take out the arcane heart powering the whole enterprise before getting to the sarcophagus itself, which you’ll naturally transport with jetpacks before booking it back to your ship. It isn’t enough to get any given job done; you gotta get home, too. Just another day in the life of a pizza bandit. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. There are more, of course: in one, you’ll defend a cabin with Dr. Emmert Browne (Great Scott, Jofsoft, I see what you’re doing here, and I like it!) while he invents the time travel device that makes your whole business profitable. Winning it all means keeping him warm, satiating his hunger with rabbit or venison, and stopping all those ****** Time Reapers (and Wendigos?) who are trying to stop time travel from happening. You’d think that the Time Reapers would understand time paradoxes, but I guess not. Can’t reap time if there’s no time to reap, y’all. Or maybe you’ll break into an enormous safe with a laser drill, like you’re roleplaying the opening scene of Michael Mann’s Thief with a drill that’s constantly exploding. That seems safe, right? But hey, apparently there’s a magical cookbook in that vault whose recipes can alter reality, and we’re being paid to get it, exploding drill or not. A Pizza Bandit always gets the job done. And there’s always time to do your best Breaking Bad impersonation and help a couple of guys cook some “magic powder” and hide it inside some chicken. Oh, and you have to kill and cook the chickens. Only fresh, never frozen, baby. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. Between missions, it’s back to Pizza Bandit (your restaurant), where you can acquire and upgrade your weapons, decorate Pizza Bandit itself, use the ingredients you find during missions to bake and share a pie for some stat boosts on your next run, or get some spiffy new duds for your bounty hunter. The milk carton backpack is a classic choice, if I do say so myself, but I’m still saving up for one of the cat ones. The things we do for fashion, am I right? Then it’s right back to it. A bandit’s work is never done. Sometimes, you don’t know you want something until you get it. I didn’t know I wanted Pizza Bandit until the first time I played it at PAX two years ago. It was one of those games that generated a lot of word of mouth, but it’s one of those concepts that doesn’t seem like it’ll work until you get a controller in your hands and everything makes sense. I don’t know why we’ve never gotten something like Pizza Bandit before, but once I played it, I knew I wanted more. Pizza heals, bullets kill, and Pizza Bandit rocks. If Jofsoft can stick the landing, we’re in for a tasty slice of New York pie. View the full article
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The start of the Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 beta tests has resulted in massive leaks about the new characters that will be added with the update, both confirming previous rumors about their abilities, as well as providing new insights into how they will work in combat. Version 3.4 is the next patch for HoYoverse’s turn-based RPG. The developer has already confirmed that three new playable characters will be joining the playable roster. The first of them is Phainon, a Chrysos Heir who has been accompanying the Trailblazer’s adventure on Amphoreus since their arrival in The Eternal Land. View the full article
Neowiz and Round8 Studio have published a full Lies of P Orchestra Concert on YouTube featuring nearly two hours of performances. View the full article
Give it some credit: it's not every game that lets you edit the text in its installation wizard while you wait for setup to conclude. But Big Rigs dares to be so bold. It is also so bold as to allow you to accelerate to literally infinite speeds by holding reverse, to have absolutely zero collision, and to splatter a .bmp of a three-handled trophy on the screen whenever you reach the end of a track, underlined by royalty-free WordArt reading "YOU'RE WINNER.".. Read more.View the full article
Using a VPN comes with a host of positive benefits, like avoiding region blocking on Netflix. The same principle can be used to watch ******** sports streaming - something a French court has recently demanded VPNs put an end to. Sorry, sports fans. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This Steam Deck rival proves that SteamOS is much faster than Windows for gaming Save a huge 23% on this 240Hz 1440p Acer Nitro gaming monitor, if you're quick Best graphics card 2025 - top gaming GPUs View the full article
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Deliver At All Costs wowed during Steam Next Fest back in February. Mixing GTA, Crazy Taxi, and The Simpsons Hit and Run, it tasks you with carrying out a series of increasingly chaotic courier jobs while driving recklessly through highly destructible environments, with buildings crumbling and NPCs flying into the air, legs akimbo, as you go. The two-hour demo was the perfect taster of this mayhem, enough to make many of us, myself included, return to the driver's seat of our yellow stepside truck. But the full game somehow does both too much and not enough. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Mixing GTA and Teardown, the brand-new Deliver At All Costs is somehow 100% free GTA 6 may be a while, but sandbox hit Deliver At All Costs makes the wait easier Deliver At All Costs blends Fallout style with retro GTA, and you can try it now View the full article
Some Doom fans consider the 2016 reboot to have the best visual style in the series. Originally planned as a sequel to the franchise's third installment, the 2016 Doom project faced significant development challenges before being shifted to a full reboot. This bold decision by developer id Software proved successful, as the 2016 game is now one of the most highly regarded entries in the series. View the full article
A developer who worked on the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has confirmed why a long-awaited third game in the series has never come to fruition. Although Pandemic Studios developed the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2, it took a revival from EA and DICE a decade later for fans to get any new content in the popular series. View the full article
The dark fantasy open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has hit 1.0 and launched worldwide for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC Steam. View the full article
Star Wars Battlefront 2 has officially broken its concurrent player count record on Steam, surpassing 12,000 in-game players simultaneously. While the record might not seem massively impressive, Star Wars Battlefront 2is an eight-year-old shooter that recently found a new lease of life as players jumped back into the title to rally for a third game. There have also been rumors circulating that the title has surpassed more than 160,000 concurrent players across all platforms, but an official source has not verified this number. View the full article
Ever since The Elder Scrolls Online came to consoles, players have been calling for crossplay. Fellow longstanding MMOs like Final Fantasy 14, Warframe, and New World: Aeternum all feature the ability to play across PC and console, and I've found that it's always a massive boon to the experience. So why isn't it in ESO yet? This is something Kinda Funny's Greg Miller asked the game's developers during a multi-part ESO podcast series, and it turns out Zenimax is hopeful to have it working one day. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New free ESO rewards include a player home and massive XP bonuses, but act fast ESO is being completely reinvented in 2025, for new and old players alike ESO wants to be more experimental as MMORPG shifts to seasonal model View the full article
Lightyear Frontier seemed well liked when it launched into Steam early access last March, garnering a Very Positive rating from players for its ingenious synthesis of first-person mech piloting and farming simulation. But it seems there's been some discontent bubbling beneath that big blue thumbs up... Read more.View the full article
Amazon has knocked up to 41% off Samsung gaming monitors for Memorial Day, including the 240Hz version of my current favorite 1440p OLED display.View the full article
The Alienware AW2725Q is one of the sharpest QD-OLED 4K monitors around, and Memorial Day has knocked a nifty $100 off its usual price tag.View the full article
Spike Chunsoft gives both AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative and AI: The Somnium Files a permanent price drop ahead of No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files releasing in the coming months. View the full article
Oblivion Remastered is just the latest in a long line of redesigns and polished-up versions of some of the best old games, and the Fallout series seems equally primed for such treatment. The natural speculation following Bethesda's return to The Elder Scrolls is that Fallout 3, the studio's first entry in the series, would be the immediate choice. But what about Interplay's beloved original? Series co-creator Tim Cain has been thinking about exactly that, and concludes that there are some pretty key challenges in the way. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Interplay co-founder says she has Fallout 1 and 2's source code safe and sound Fallout, XCOM, and dozens of PC classics will run smoothly forever, GOG says Ambitious Fallout 1 remake Vault 13 is no longer being developed View the full article
Even though Baldur's Gate 3 has been in the spotlight for almost two years, fans are still perplexed by some of its mysteries. One of the game's greatest qualities is that players can form their own paths to get through the story, and they can be as chaotic or peaceful as they like. However, this can sometimes also be a flaw, as first-time players may not be inclined to seek out certain characters or areas, which can lead to later gaps in their knowledge. View the full article
Freja may have only just come to Overwatch 2 Stadium, but she's already proved to be incredibly overpowered. Her bola builds are making OW2 almost entirely unplayable for the opposite team, and that's exactly why Blizzard is completely removing one of her powers while it works on a fix. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Overwatch 2 tier list - the best characters to play in Season 16 All Overwatch 2 characters and abilities detailed Overwatch 2 Stadium wants you to feel OP, but Blizzard says it's "gone too far" View the full article
FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time has peaked at 50,515 concurrent players on 24 May 2025 within the release week. View charts and more statistics on our website.View the full article
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You ever wonder who the first person to put peanut butter and chocolate together was? Part of me feels like whoever it was must be loaded; I mean, you’ve combined two already great flavors into something that Reese’s would more or less build a whole brand on. And then part of me thinks it plays out like the hypothetical guy who invented the Chicken McNugget in The Wire. A pat on the back from a big shot, and then it’s back to the basement to figure out a way to make the fries taste better. I don’t know the answer; I hope it's the former. But every now and then, you come across an idea, a combination of things, that’s so good that you wonder how nobody’s ever done it before. And every time my squad and I sprinted back to our time-traveling dropship, stopping only to deal with the Time Reapers that stood in our way, I wondered how the hell nobody had ever said “Hey, what if we combined Overcooked and Gears of War?” pre-Pizza Bandit. Pizza Bandit’s setup is pretty simple. You’re Malik, a former bounty hunter with dreams of being a chef who is pulled back into the bounty game when he’s scammed out of his pizza shop and his former crew needs his help to get out of a jam. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. I can’t get mad when Albert, the android that upgrades your weapons, tells me he doesn’t know how to apologize for what happened to my pizza shop because he’s just an android, or when my pilot waxes nostalgic about how he misses the fog, or when someone utters the odd nonsensical line. It’s too silly, and the whole setup is just there to, well… set up Pizza Bandit’s wackiness. See, you’re not just any bounty-hunting crew. You’re a time-traveling bounty hunting crew, and that means you’ll be going all over space and time to get the job done. Don’t ask me how any of this works. All I know is that pizza heals and bullets kill, and that the Time Reapers — ****** little buggers that seem to be invading every timeline — don’t want this pizza shop owner to make any dough. And that’s not gonna fly. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. What makes Pizza Bandit unique is that you’re not just shooting stuff. You’re also, well, kinda playing Overcooked. After squading up, my first mission saw my crew (you can play with up to three friends) heading to the Restaurant from N owhere, a hidden outpost run by another bandit crew. Our job: fulfill the pizza orders for other bounty hunting teams, and send them off in time-traveling rocket pods. That meant putting together the right type of pizza, getting it to the oven, making sure we were getting their drink orders right, and adding some extra bullets for when things got spicy, cramming it all into a pod, and doing it on time while fighting off the Time Reapers, who really, really don’t like supporting small businesses. And that’s where the other part of the Overcooked/Gears of War marriage comes into play. See, the Time Reapers mean business, and you’re not going to talk them out of some time reaping. That’s their whole bag. The only solution, fellow bandit, is incredible violence. I’ve played several builds of Pizza Bandit at this point, and let me tell you, your arsenal is up to the task. You start with your choice of assau lt rifle, minigun, and sniper rifle, but the fun really begins when you start unlocking your secondary weapons by completing jobs. They start simple: landmines, grenades, that sort of thing, but once you unlock the disco ball that attracts enemies and gets them dancing before it explodes? Whew, buddy. And the sentry turret? Perfection. You could slice and dice them Time Reapers with a katana, but have you ever considered using a pizza slicer as big as a man? It’ll change your life. And the Time Reapers will force you to use everything in your arsenal. You got your standard guys who will just run at you, but there are also Time Reapers that’ll crawl around on all fours, Terminator-looking ones that will leap at you, giant ones with hammers, guys who throw fireballs (these can really ruin your day), the works. You gotta prioritize. Pizza Bandit is at its best when you’re with a good team, calling out orders. A good match should be shouts of “We need a pepperoni pie!” and “I’m on the Coke!” and “I’m down!” interspersed with lots and lots of gunfire. Simple choices, like when to call down your own, once-a-mission rocket pod full of pizza and supplies, and more complex ones, like where to put it (you can block off a stairway, for instance), spice things up, too. And here’s the thing: so far, I’ve just talked about Restaurant from Nowhere, which is only the first level. Pizza Bandit isn’t a one-trick pony. One of my favorite levels has you taking over a sushi joint and making sure you have the right stuff on the delivery turntable for your customers. Sometimes that means running downstairs and grabbing a big ol’ tuna, taking that bad boy upstairs, and chopping him up before the Time Reapers whack you and you drop him. Other times that means frying an egg, or making a cucumber roll. You gotta stay ahead of the curve, because new customers are prioritized over old ones, and the Time Reapers aren’t gonna sit there and wait for you to plate your masterpiece. Sometimes, you’re not even cooking food at all. Another favorite level, Wizard’s Tomb, has you exploring a magically booby-trapped tomb in search of a sarcophagus. You’ll have to navigate the tomb’s traps, solve basic puzzles to reveal the way forward, and take out the arcane heart powering the whole enterprise before getting to the sarcophagus itself, which you’ll naturally transport with jetpacks before booking it back to your ship. It isn’t enough to get any given job done; you gotta get home, too. Just another day in the life of a pizza bandit. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. There are more, of course: in one, you’ll defend a cabin with Dr. Emmert Browne (Great Scott, Jofsoft, I see what you’re doing here, and I like it!) while he invents the time travel device that makes your whole business profitable. Winning it all means keeping him warm, satiating his hunger with rabbit or venison, and stopping all those ****** Time Reapers (and Wendigos?) who are trying to stop time travel from happening. You’d think that the Time Reapers would understand time paradoxes, but I guess not. Can’t reap time if there’s no time to reap, y’all. Or maybe you’ll break into an enormous safe with a laser drill, like you’re roleplaying the opening scene of Michael Mann’s Thief with a drill that’s constantly exploding. That seems safe, right? But hey, apparently there’s a magical cookbook in that vault whose recipes can alter reality, and we’re being paid to get it, exploding drill or not. A Pizza Bandit always gets the job done. And there’s always time to do your best Breaking Bad impersonation and help a couple of guys cook some “magic powder” and hide it inside some chicken. Oh, and you have to kill and cook the chickens. Only fresh, never frozen, baby. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. Between missions, it’s back to Pizza Bandit (your restaurant), where you can acquire and upgrade your weapons, decorate Pizza Bandit itself, use the ingredients you find during missions to bake and share a pie for some stat boosts on your next run, or get some spiffy new duds for your bounty hunter. The milk carton backpack is a classic choice, if I do say so myself, but I’m still saving up for one of the cat ones. The things we do for fashion, am I right? Then it’s right back to it. A bandit’s work is never done. Sometimes, you don’t know you want something until you get it. I didn’t know I wanted Pizza Bandit until the first time I played it at PAX two years ago. It was one of those games that generated a lot of word of mouth, but it’s one of those concepts that doesn’t seem like it’ll work until you get a controller in your hands and everything makes sense. I don’t know why we’ve never gotten something like Pizza Bandit before, but once I played it, I knew I wanted more. Pizza heals, bullets kill, and Pizza Bandit rocks. If Jofsoft can stick the landing, we’re in for a tasty slice of New York pie. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]