Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you’re an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living in a dilapidated post-Soviet city full of homeless people, gas-mask thugs, and talkative bartenders. “It’s Deus Ex except you’re Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, retired, in Poland.” That’s how I summed up the demo for Peripeteia when I played…
“Join us for a 20-minute Capcom Spotlight”. We’re almost out of January, and Capcom is officially getting its year underway with the announcement of a special “spotlight” showcase taking place next week on 4th February. This broadcast will be broken up into two segments – there’s the main show, running for 20 minutes, and this…
Aside from Civilization 7‘s transformative ages system, one of the most significant changes is the introduction of towns. In past games, all of your civilization’s settlements were cities, and they all worked in the same way. In Civ 7, you can have just one city if you want—your capital—and still expand across an entire continent…
Update: The release has been delayed. Following successful funding on Kickstarter, the turn-based tactical strategy game Warside has finally locked in a release date. It will launch for Switch and multiple other platforms on 28th January 2025. In case you missed our existing coverage of this one, as you can see, it’s heavily inspired by…
In 2018, Syama Pedersen started uploading Astartes, a five-part Warhammer 40,000 fan film that was so good Games Workshop hired him to work on their own animations. Not only that, they made the Retributor chapter of space marines he’d invented part of the official canon. Since then Pedersen’s name has shown up in places like…
We take a look at the newly renamed TankStick VR for X-Arcade
The Olympic Esports Games was announced in 2024 as a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee and the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia, with events held “regularly” over a 12-year span beginning in 2025. But it now looks like that timeline may have been overly optimistic, as a SportBusiness report says the event has…
I’ve never claimed to understand high fashion. Or advertising. Or really much of anything. So you can imagine my confusion when I received a press release for the Prêt-à-Portable capsule collection, which appeared at Paris Fashion Week and includes a tracksuit, parka, jumper, and a “handcrafted, XXXXXXL bucket bag” that’s “big enough to fit an…
Back when I was a kid in the 1980s, I distinctly remember three rumors spreading around at school: Mikey from the Life cereal commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and Coke In the next Friday the 13th movie, Freddy Kruger from the Elm Street movies would fight Jason In the next Alien movie, the aliens…
The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a little wider today with a Deadline report revealing that a show based on Quantic Dream’s action-adventure Beyond: Two Souls is now in development at Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions. Page, you’ll recall, starred in Beyond: Two Souls, a “psychological action thriller” about a girl whose powerful telepathic abilities lead her into…