I’ve been replaying **** of War Ragnarök now that it’s on PC, and despite some clear, widespread technical issues with depreciating framerate, this is still fundamentally the same excellent sequel that launched on PlayStation in 2022. I put a few hours into the game again to test how it ran on PC, and revisiting it… Read more... View the full article
We’ve been having a blast in Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, even if there’s the weirdly high chance of getting schooled by a pro. However, basing these games off their arcade versions has unfortunately led to the occasional problem, and one particularly surprising issue is figuring out how to… Read more... View the full article
We’re nearing the end of 2024, but it’s still gonna be a big year for Sonic the Hedgehog. Between the upcoming Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster, the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie, and the rest of its Year of Shadow celebration, fans of the blue blur are eating. ***** held a Sonic Central stream today,… Read more... View the full article
It seems that Microsoft has been paying attention to all of those millennial nostalgia-bait posts about translucent iMacs and PlayStation DualShock controllers that go viral on social media, as it’s rising to the moment with its own lineup of see-through Xbox controllers. It is 100 percent working. Read more... View the full article
It’s Tokyo Game Show time, but if you’re like me and can’t make the trip out to Japan, many of the big game publishers attending are putting their catalogs on ***** to celebrate. Konami is one such publisher currently hosting a Steam *****, and looking through its library of discounted games has revealed what a weird… Read more... View the full article
The Karate ****: Street Rumble looks like your average modern 2D beat ’em up: button mashing combos, neat retro pixel art, and little stylish touches that bring out the nostalgia for people in love with the source material. But something went terribly, terribly wrong during the $40 game’s brief story cutscenes. Read more... View the full article
Enotria: The Last Song is a sunny soulslike that has an unusual sense of joy on the surface—but there’s a lot of dark stuff going on underneath. You can rest assured that your skills will be tested in typical genre fashion, and especially during the game’s opening hours, where things are at their most confusing. Here… Read more... View the full article
If you’ve been keeping up with all of Marvel’s various TV shows and movies over the last several years, then you might have recognized everybody in the recent Thunderbolts* trailer. The upcoming MCU film brings together a slew of returning B-tier characters from the past, with Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova in the… Read more... View the full article
**** of War Ragnarok recently arrived on PC after getting rave reviews on PS4 and PS5 back in 2022. But controversially, you need to log in to the PlayStation Network with a free account to play the single-player-only action game on Steam. Well, unless you use a recently released mod to get around this requirement. Read more... View the full article
Assassins’ Creed began as a game about sneaking up behind people and stabbing them. Decades later it’s much, much more, and the latest game in the franchise, *********’s Creed Shadows, appears to be building on its ever more complex open-world RPG architecture with a new base-building minigame that looks straight out… Read more... View the full article
Baldur’s Gate III is a massive game, and a huge amount of its content isn’t plot-critical. This means, moving about the world organically, you’ll likely miss a lot of the best quests! Some are cleverly hidden, others require special stat checks or certain prerequisites to be met before you can reap the rewards, and… Read more... View the full article
A small film production company you’ve never heard of called Stellarblade is suing Sony and Shift Up over the use of Stellar Blade in this year’****** action-adventure. Read more... View the full article
Visions of Mana is a predominantly linear game, but Chapter Seven throws a curveball. With three boss fights against the Benevodons down and only five to go, you can choose to take on the next four elemental demons in any order you like. It’s a vaguely Mega Man style structure, since each boss will unlock valuable… Read more... View the full article
Chappell Roan, the Pink Pony Girl that you are. You’re a gay icon who takes no *****, a nerd with an affinity for medieval fantasy like the rest of us, and you’re also calling out how the ******* States’ political systems have made even some who pretend to be progressive complicit in genocide. They could never make me… Read more... View the full article
If you’re on the lookout for a whimsical, polished, *****-sized masterpiece on the Switch, look no further than Bzzzt. It’s an action platformer starring an adorable ****** tasked with navigating one mischievous ****** trap after another. It scratches the same ***** as Astro ****’s most challenging levels, and I’ve been… Read more... View the full article
One perk of PC gaming is that the big two console manufacturers keep releasing their best games on Steam, so we don’t have to pick between one or the other. A little over a week ago, PlayStation had its own big ***** that slashed prices on games like **** of War and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Now it’s Xbox’s turn to give PC… Read more... View the full article
Of all the games I’ve played this year, Children of the Sun is far and away the most hostile. This trippy shooter follows The Girl, a survivor of The Cult’s abuses, as she takes her revenge on them and The Leader. Yes, those terms are all capitalized properly, Children of the Sun sees fit to give these characters the… Read more... View the full article
When it comes to ranking Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, you’re really just ranking a group of top-tier games. A list ranking the Zelda series is a list of bangers, and even the “worst” entry is better than most other games. So don’t get **** if your favorite is on the lower half of this list, it’s standing… Read more... View the full article
I’m in the Glitch Theater at the San Diego Convention Center during TwitchCon 2024, watching a drag artist dressed as Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head lip-sync to a nu-metal song on stage. The crowd is a mix of high-profile streamers like Central Committee and KaceyTron, smaller Twitch affiliates, and fans—and all of them… Read more... View the full article
Hold onto your baseball caps because Eric Taylor, AKA the coach from Friday Night Lights, AKA Kyle Chandler, is going to star as Hal Jordan in a Green Lantern series for HBO, according toHollywood Reporter and Deadline. The in-development show, called “Lanterns,” will apparently have a darker, grittier vibe more akin… Read more... View the full article
Visions of Mana looks cute and casual on the surface, but underneath ***** some surprisingly deep team building. Each of the five characters can eventually equip one of eight classes, each with their own Elemental Plot invested in with Elemental Points. Unfortunately, even though spells learned by one class can carry… Read more... View the full article
Hollowbody is a short survival horror game that takes you on a panicked run through what’s left of 22nd-century England, 60 years after a ********** ******* infected its west coast with an unknown biological agent. As smuggler Mica Holloway, you have less than 20 hours to find your partner Sasha and escape the… Read more... View the full article
The next PlayStation showcase is this week, Sony has confirmed. The latest State of Play presentation will kick off on Tuesday with updates on over a dozen games across PlayStation 5 and PS VR 2 as the company caps off a busy month filled with Astro ****, the PS5 Pro reveal, and the 30th Anniversary Collection… Read more... View the full article
When we get to the fast-approaching end of 2024, and folks start talking about what ought to be crowned Game of the Year, lots of people are inevitably going to say Helldivers 2. Since its release in February, the third-person co-op shooter has been one of the most heavily played games of the year. Its fans are a reall… Read more... View the full article
Somehow, October is right around the corner, which means 2024 is rapidly approaching its end. After the whirlwind of amazing releases that was 2023, some thought this year would be relatively slow on the game front, and yet game after good game keep dropping. That’s why it might come as a shock to you that Prince of… Read more... View the full article
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We’ve been having a blast in Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, even if there’s the weirdly high chance of getting schooled by a pro. However, basing these games off their arcade versions has unfortunately led to the occasional problem, and one particularly surprising issue is figuring out how to… Read more... View the full article