Contra meets Wild Guns in Neon Inferno, a pixel-perfect cyberpunk shooter turning up the heat on all platforms later this year. Philadelphia, PA – Feb. 07, 2025 – Grab your blasters and your favorite knives as Retroware and Zenovia Interactive join forces to publish Neon Inferno, coming to all platforms in Q3 2025. NYC 2055:…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 10 to 14 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published February 7, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Xbox App on Windows PC, and…
Flash for cash. The Tokyo Xtreme Racer series is known by many alternative names, but the core concept is a simple one: instead of racing around a track in an effort to cross the finish line ahead of your opponents, you’re cruising around Tokyo’s Shuto Expressway challenging other racers in one-off duels, where the objective…
Hi-Rez, who some of us on staff haven’t exactly forgiven for slowly dropping Tribes: Ascend way back when, has more or less proven that time is a flat circle by doing almost the exact same thing with its current games, Smite and Paladins. That’s as per both a message posted to Hi-Rez’s eSports Discord, shared…
Star Iliad is “coming soon”. Cape Cosmic, the developer behind the fabulous Phoenotopia: Awakening, has announced its next project — Star Iliad, a Metroidvania set inside a star whale. And, par the course, the pixel art looks gorgeous. Platforms have yet to be announced yet. In a blog post on the developer’s tumblr, Cape Cosmic…
I’ve always had a soft spot for Astrox Imperium, an early access game that first hit Steam all the way back in 2019, and that aimed to be, in the words of every other review on its page, a “singleplayer EVE Online“. You have a ship, a universe, and all the dreams you can fill…
There exists in biological sciences a principle called “carcinization.” This concept expounds on the fact that evolution has a tendency to lead animal life to eventually take the form of a crab. This has happened, quite independently, roughly half a dozen times throughout the history of our planet. Nature loves crabs, it seems. For my…
Let’s do the time warp again. On Western shores last yast year, Falcom started a fresh arc in its long-running flagship franchise with The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, breathing new life into the series while offering a great jump-in point for newcomers looking for a place to start. With the overall Trails series…
Midnight Wanderers was originally included in the ‘Three Wonders’ arcade compilation. The developer of the Castlevania fangame Maria Renard’s Revenge, DomKid, has announced that they currently are working on an exciting port of Capcom’s Midnight Wanderers for the Neo Geo. Midnight Wanderers, in case you’ve never heard of it, was a run ‘n gun platformer…
Blizzard has raised over $2 million for the charity CureDuchenne, using the seemingly irresistible lure of microtransactions for good. World of Warcraft players accomplished this via The Reven Pack (a cute little fox companion and a backpack to go with it), which Blizzard donated 100% of the purchase price of to CureDuchenne. Duchenne is one…