Bungie finished today’s Marathon gameplay reveal stream with a surprise treat: An eight-minute animation that sets the scene for the game’s lore, and specifically how brutal life is for runners seeking to make their fortune on Tau Ceti IV. Or, more specifically, their frequent, repeated deaths. I actually saw the short just over a week…
Category: Games April 12, 2025 Marathon Comes to Xbox This September, and Here’s What We Know So Far Danielle Partis Summary Bungie has shared new gameplay for Marathon, a new team-based FPS extraction shooter. Players work in crews of three to take down rival Runner teams, scavenge for resources and gear, and extract safely. Marathon…
Survival-action shooter Atomfall has lured more than two million players into its post-nuclear-disaster Britain, and they’ve apparently drunk 500,000 cups of tea while there. Which is not enough. Those are rookie numbers in the British tea drinking game. We need those numbers up to like three per person just to make average. That’s 6,000,000 cups…
I already feel preemptively sorry for whatever studio ends up making Baldur’s Gate 4. Imagine watching Larian put out an RPG as massive, impressive, and flexible as Baldur’s Gate 3, and having the license holder Hasbro say “another one of those, please!”. Now, as if following in the footsteps of one of the greatest games…
Yes! No! Maybe? Last weekend, following the blowout of Switch 2 news with the Direct, we asked you which Switch 2 launch games you were wishlisting. Looking specifically at the launch lineup and Nintendo’s first-party slate thereafter, we were interested to take the temperature not only for the big games (no surprises that there’s a…
Lost Ark was mostly a pleasant surprise for me when I reviewed it back in 2022. I enjoyed both its spectacular ARPG combat and its increasingly absurd MMO story, which shifted from conventional fantasy fare to throwing you into enormous clown battles and exploring islands inhabited by Borrowers-like characters. But there came a point where…
The last news story from me unless something major comes out, as the previously announced Amiga shooter of ‘Hyper Wings’ by Geldo79, has hit the big 2.2 with a final version! An Asteroids and Star Control mash up which was developed in ASM. To coincide with this news, while we did feature the game before,…
The Count of Monte Cristo is the third most famous fictional count, after Sesame Street’s numerically obsessed vampire ‘The Count’ and the most infamous vampire of them all, Count Chocula. Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel of romance and revenge has nothing to do with vampires (which some may consider an oversight), but it’s still recognised as…
And it’s “still free” when it arrives. During the Triple-i showcase earlier this week, developer Askiisoft reminded Katana ZERO fans about the free DLC. In this long-awaited development update for the indie action-platformer, it was confirmed the DLC is “finally nearing completion”. Here’s a bit about it direct from the PR, and you can see…
I was ambivalent about Days Gone when it shambled onto PC in 2021, though my issues were primarily with its clumsy storytelling rather than anything systemic. Exploring the world on Deacon St John’s motorcycle while evading hordes of shambling undead was enjoyable enough, especially when a minor pitstop to pick up some fuel would turn…