Castlevania Free on Mobile Until October 24
September 26 marked the 40-year anniversary of Konami’s Castlevania on NES and to celebrate, the publisher has made the game available for free on IOS and Android devices. As well Konami has slashed prices on several Castlevania games on the PlayStation and Steam stores. Those sales run through October 1 and October 7. The next…
After 12 years, Dark Souls 2 is finally playable in co-op without interruptions
I’ve always been content to admire the Dark Souls games from afar, rather than get particularly into them myself, and part of that is probably a crumb of leftover resentment from trying to wrangle the multiplayer features in those early games. Love it or hate it, it’s esoteric at the best of times and not…
“This Is What Happens When You Rely On AI Slop” – Fans Aren’t Impressed With Vibe-Coded Knuckles’ Chaotix Recomp
“I’m getting pretty fed up with all these “ports” made with AI”. We’ve seen a flood of AI-assisted retro gaming projects lately, from translations to decompilation and recompilation efforts. Opinion is sharply divided on the merit of such projects; AI tools help speed things up for sure, but they often come with unwelcome side effects…
Gears of War story director laid off mere days after E-Day went gold
Gears of War: E-Day is almost here, but that doesn’t mean its developers have been spared in Microsoft’s latest wave of layoffs as part of the Xbox “reset.” While The Coalition, the studio currently working on the Gears of War series, was not mentioned by name in Matt Booty’s “Continuing Our Reset” blog post, story…
I’m loving WoW: Forever, but I can’t help but miss the music of my other beloved MMO
Uh-oh. The MMO no-life virus started coursing through me as soon as I jumped into WoW: Forever’s beta, and it’s refusing to let up. Which is a problem, considering I’m also housing the kind of sickness that makes me pump dozens of hours into Final Fantasy 14 every week like it’s a goddamn full-time job….
Shadow the Hedgehog is supposed to be dead
It’s hard to imagine Sonic the Hedgehog without his Jungian counterpart: the gun-toting, swear-uttering Shadow the Hedgehog. But Shadow is a relatively late addition to the series’ extensive roster of anthropomorphic animals, debuting long after the Genesis days in Sonic Adventure 2—more than that, he was never supposed to stick around. According to a report…
Latest Xbox layoffs reportedly devastated Age of Empires developer and canceled its next game
The latest stage of Xbox’s delicately named “reset” arrived last Tuesday—but its impact on World’s Edge Studio, the developer now behind the Age of Empires series, was only briefly mentioned in Xbox CCO Matt Booty’s announcement. On sites like resetera and LinkedIn, former employees of the RTS developer have shared that it was hit especially…
William Pugh, co-designer of The Stanley Parable, has over 1,600 hours in Dota 2: ‘It’s not a game made of love. It’s a game fuelled by hate and a desire to conquer’
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?” William Pugh grew up on a diet…
Opinion: I Played Mario Kart Tour Every Day For Seven Years, And What Am I Left With?
Chequered flag. On 24th September 2019, Nintendo launched Mario Kart Tour for mobile devices. This was Mario’s second outing in mobile gaming, following 2016’s Super Mario Run, which had an impressive initial reception but seemingly failed to generate much revenue (compared with other big mobile games, including Nintendo’s own Fire Emblem Heroes). Mario Kart Tour…
Lords of the End Times’ greatest fantasy is letting us rewrite the most hated lore in Warhammer’s history
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
