A couple months after bringing diminutive psycho-stabber Chucky to the multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight, Behaviour Interactive is teasing something new—and a lot of fans are convinced that an Alan Wake crossover is on the way. In terms of substance, the tease is awfully thin: It’s a flashlight. Alan Wake is a pretty…
“We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things”. In 1994, the Wakefield-based developer and publisher Team17 revealed that it was working on a Legend of Zelda-style RPG called Witchwood. The game, which followed a young adventurer battling against an evil witch, appeared in various magazines throughout the decade, such as CU…
“Thank you to all our fans”. The Pokémon TV service — an app and browser website that has allowed Pokémon fans across the world to watch older episodes of the anime for free — is ending service on 28th March 2024, The Pokémon Company has confirmed. In an update on the official Pokémon website, TPC…
Some of the greatest stories about games are simply about how developers made the thing work. Ask any developer for their favourite workarounds and you’ll get a full evening’s worth of entertainment about how a giant tram is actually an NPC with a hat on, or how rabbits are actually what makes Azeroth work, and…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the big, world-changing isometric party-based RPG that everyone’s still talking about, but I’ve always felt that Pillars of Eternity is the game that really first started turning that engine over. The OG Infinity Engine vibes were strong, but it stood well on its own merits too: We called it “a deep,…
The Atari 2600+ will be under many Christmas trees this season, but since it requires physical media to play games, you’re gonna need to flesh out your cartridge collection before Santa shows up. But which games should you be on the lookout for? GenXGrownUp has done the research for you and combined data from multiple…
Acer has announced a slew of new gaming monitors for CES, including a 57-inch dual-4K monster. Other models include 34-inch and 39-inch OLEDs, plus a 34-inch mini-LED panel. But let’s kick off with the beast, the Acer Predator Z57. Acer isn’t saying it, but we very much suspect this is based on the very same…
Best easy Switch games. Sometimes you just want to take it easy. Perhaps you’re looking to dip your toe into a new genre with unfamiliar mechanics, or you’re simply not in the headspace to go toe-to-toe with unforgiving, inscrutable games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, and their ilk. If you’re looking for easy games for…