May 2025
4 years after being delisted, Lost Planet 2 finally got a Steam update to remove Games for Windows Live—but it also removed online multiplayer and blew up everyone’s saves
Lost Planet 2, Capcom’s sci-fi third-person shooter that’s a little like space Monster Hunter with mechs, massive aliens, and sweet, sweet T-ENG, has spent years in a purgatory of neglect. As one of the countless games left in a state of disrepair after Microsoft discontinued support for its universally despised Games for Windows Live, Lost…
Watch: Evercade Showcase Volume 4 (May 2025) – Live!
Celebrate five years of Evercade. Evercade maker Blaze is celebrating five years of the retro gaming range of systems with a new showcase, and it’s one that is sure to be packed with announcements. The Evercade family includes handhelds, consoles and even bartop arcades, all of which are compatible with a growing range of cartridges….
A Little Roguelike Fun: Cryptmaster’s Deckbuilder in the Anniversary Update
Cryptmaster, a narrative adventure where your words are your power, had a popular in-universe card minigame, “Whatever,” that you could play against certain characters to win more cards to add to your deck. First, let’s take a look at Whatever and understand how this deckbuilding minigame became so popular. In Whatever, your goal is to…
After a year and a half of updates, WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery is finally winding down in favor of something new: ‘We need to get in the proverbial kitchen and cook’
Season of Discovery is an odd one. It’s an offshoot of WoW Classic—a recreation of World of Warcraft circa 2006—which soups it up with all sorts of new build options, raids, legendary weapons, and wild PvP events. For fans, it’s been like peering into an alternate reality where WoW stuck to its guns and never…
Misc. A Tiny Tale Will Fill The Chibi-Robo-Sized Hole In Your Heart This July
It’s itty-bitty. While the Switch 2 will be occupying a lot of our time and space over the coming weeks and months, there are still plenty of adorable, relaxing-looking games for us to experience. Misc. A Tiny Tale is one such game, with cute, tiny robots whose goal it is to spread joy wherever they…
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – a closer look at the Soulslike combat
From the first moment you step into the brutal lands of Shu, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers makes one thing clear: survival isn’t gifted, it’s earned. Throughout your journey, you’ll need to master an arsenal of weapons, spells, and abilities to overcome the harrowing challenges of this Soulslike action-RPG set in the waning years of the Ming…
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s big naval expansion is delayed: ‘After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready’
War Sails, the Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord expansion announced in March, has been delayed. Instead of launching on June 17 as planned, developer TaleWorlds Entertainment says it’s now on track for release in early fall. “After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready by the originally…
Japanese Charts: Fantasy Life i Caps Off The Switch 1 With A Big Win
This is the life. Famitsu has published the latest boxed charts for Japan, and it’s a huge win for Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Okay, we say “huge”, these figures don’t exactly look great compared to what we might have seen a few years back, but hey, it’s a solid start. The…
All quests, ranks, and rewards for the Mamool Ja Allied Society in Final Fantasy 14
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.25 ushered in yet another Allied Society adventure, bringing us one step closer to completing Dawntrail’s sidequest series with two out of three planned for Tural now available. The FF14 Mamool Ja questline digs a little deeper into relations between Yak T’el’s villages, picking up where the region’s sidequests left off…