“The More You Take Off, The Stronger You Become” – Gainax’s NSFW ‘Battle Skin Panic’ Gets Translated And Legally Re-Released
Now available on Manga Gamer. Originally released in 1990, Battle Skin Panic is a card-battling game in which a selection of girls engage in “undressing battles” using the “ancient kung-fu technique Rasin-Kassatsu-Ken.” First released for the PC-8801 in 1990 and ported to the PC-9821 in 1993, the game was developed by animation studio Gainax, famous…
Video: Digital Foundry Breaks Down Oblivion’s “Frustrating Performance” On Switch 2
Hitches galore. Digital Foundry has posted its tech review for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on the Switch 2, detailing how Bethesda and Virtuos’ work holds up on Nintendo’s console a little over a year after its initial release. In a nutshell, Oblivion looks pretty good on the Switch 2, delivering most of the…
The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably subtitled Sentinel, and there’s been an easter egg in Starfield hinting at it this whole time
While union members outside Bethesda’s Maryland office celebrated a recent Microsoft visit by positioning a field of red flags representing laid-off workers and a giant inflatable rat on the lawn, inside the building CEO Asha Sharma was apparently having a delightful time watching a playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6. So that’s nice. “The scale…
Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day
Lord of Undead is a “grim” third-person RPG about building an army of vicious zombies in order to maliciously raze the villages of mortals. The goal is to defeat peace and innocence, all the better for evil to prevail. You also get to build houses. It sounds pretty fun and, as far as I can…
Request for comment: Which way did you go when you reached the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3?
At the finale of Deus Ex: Human Revolution you choose which button to press to trigger one of its endings while an AI explains the differences between them. It was not a well-liked way to wrap up the game, and when just over six months later Mass Effect 3 came along with a remarkably similar…
League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals
“Built like a brick wall on roids.” That’s the passive ability Lee Sin—err, Xizun, the blind monk, used to have in League of Legends, which itself used to be a very different-looking game called Onslaught: War of the Immortals. It certainly looks like a game that was pitched the same year Finger Eleven’s “Paralyzer” was…
David Brevik, creator of Diablo, reveals the ‘worst ending’ to any game he’s played: ‘But I really love the game. It’s amazing’
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” David Brevik’s gaming history began before the…
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve heard videogame music?
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. Videogame music is ridiculously good, a behemoth that encompasses just about every damn genre out there. Orchestral,…
The next big videogame TV adaptation is a Kingdom Hearts anime
I’ve long held that no RPG is quite as spectacular as Kingdom Hearts, and I’m careful to specifically use the word “spectacular.” For every ounce it is great, it’s specifically great to gawk at, ideally with a mixture of awe and bewilderment. This is a game series where, if you die at a climactic moment,…
Iron Nest is the best ‘Battleship’ game I’ve played in years—and it doesn’t even have boats
Who knew that all I needed to be interested in maths was the command of a five-thousand-tonne artillery battery? If only my secondary school teacher had known. Turns out that the ticking clock of exam pressure is a hell of a lot less motivating than the boom of artillery shells growing ever closer, as enemy…
