The beautiful, mysterious platformer Europa has been at the back of my mind ever since I saw one of its trailers, so I was excited to try its first public demo available on Steam. The game seems to offer a more meditative, relaxed take on the exploration-heavy 3D platformers of the ’90s, and I’m more…
Is that you, Castlevania II? If you’re looking for an alternative to a certain Konami series, how about this new 8-bit sidescrolling platformer? The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest is described as a “parody/homage”, and will be coming to the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms at some point in 2025. You’ll even play as…
The new game based on Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s comic Sand Land will release on April 26, 2023, announced Bandai Namco on the PlayStation blog. The action-RPG will have players puttering around and bashing baddies in a kind of cute, monster-infested manga version of a Mad Max wasteland. The original Sand Land was a…
It’s clear that Final Fantasy 14’s producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, is in it for the love of the game. As reported by Automaton and GamesRadar, in a recent joint interview at the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in Tokyo, Yoshida went so far as to contemplate what would happen to the game in the…
Coming to all platforms in 2025. Retroware has revealed that it is working on a Castlevania-style title called The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, and it’s coming to all major platforms next year. Clearly inspired by Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest, the game boasts a NES-like aesthetic, right down to the fact that the main sprite…
Play before you pay. Updated with Dave The Diver and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Enjoy! Since its launch back in 2017, the amount of quality games that have come to Switch is simply staggering. Nintendo’s system has quite literally thousands of titles to enjoy, many of them absolutely free to download and play,…
“There was no template. No one had done this before.”. Whenever Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is brought up today, it’s usually as a punchline to a joke or as a cautionary tale about a film production spiraling out of control and going way over budget. Yet that doesn’t present a full picture of the…
If only there were a way to predict! We’re now deep into January and if you’re a Nintendo fan on the internet, you’ll likely have seen dozens of rumours regarding the next Nintendo Direct. Scrolling through your preferred gaming feed, you’ll find ‘insiders’ — some legit, most not-a-bit — leaking hot info from ‘sources’ —…
Hyperkin Has Announced the DuchesS, an Officially Licensed Replica of the Original Xbox’s Controller S January 13, 2024 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hyperkin has announced the development of the DuchesS – an officially Xbox-licensed replica of the Original Xbox’s Controller S. It will be compatible with Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10|11. Hyperkin, a…
Valve’s Steam platform had the most new releases overall. Nintendo’s Switch was recognised for all sorts of achievements and feats last year,and one other interesting fact about the hybrid system in 2023 was that it had the most game releases of any “console” hardware in the US, placing it ahead of PlayStation and Xbox. As…