Underneath the piles of free-to-play monetization, daily login rewards, and horny cosmetics there’s a hint of an enjoyable hero shooter in Mecha Break. For a certain type of mech obsessive, it’s a paradise of steel, sparks, lasers, and giant swords. Every time you enter a match you watch your pilot buckle up, achieve full synchronization,…
The multiplayer soccer game Rematch was a surprise departure for developer Sloclap, previously best known for the martial arts actioners Absolver and Sifu. But it turned out to be really good, and a genuine hit to boot: Currently there are 37,000 people playing Rematch on Steam alone. What’s also a little surprising, Sloclap CEO Pierre…
It took a few days for Blizzard to step in and fix the Diablo 4 bug that let sorcerer players stack enough damage bonuses to break the game. A day before the fun was over, streamer Mekuna decided to see if it was possible to clear the hardest dungeon in the game wearing no gear…
Of Ash and Steel is a third-person open world RPG that sets players off on a once-prosperous island to explore, fight, and “shape the fate of the world,” or at least the fate of the island. It’s still early in development (which presumably explains the lack of detail on what the game is actually about)…
Microsoft is facing new pushback over the Israeli military’s use of its AI and cloud products, as a group of more than 60 shareholders have filed a proposal calling on the company to publish a report assessing the effectiveness of its “human rights due diligence [HRDD] processes in preventing, identifying, and addressing customer misuse of…
The advent of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has generated a lot of conversation this year about whether we’re going to see a resurgence in the popularity of turn-based JRPG gameplay—conversations that have admittedly felt a little confusing to anyone who, for example, has played an Atlus game in the last decade. Even Final Fantasy 14…
It’s been more than a decade since Bioshock Infinite’s 2014 expansion, Burial at Sea, tied a bow on the series that Irrational Games and director Ken Levine will always be best-known for. Infinite was an infamously chaotic development that resulted in a divisive game and a bloated studio, which would go through brutal layoffs before…
Birthdays can be tricky. They can be a celebration of our continued existence, or a grim reminder of our steady forward march towards an inevitable mortality—or, in the case of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, a birthday can mark the occasion that Capcom removes the Denuvo DRM software that’s been a headache for its customers…
There is perhaps no image of the aughts era arcade quite as iconic as those giant Dance Dance Revolution machines, paradoxically because it’s difficult to imagine anything quite so antithetic to the arcade experience prior to that point than dancing to often obscure music. While not the first rhythm game by any means, Dance…
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, Oi, Oi, Oi! I have to admit, I was really nervous about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. I played the first ‘1 + 2’ collection back in 2021 and absolutely loved it, but my early teenage years were shaped by the Birdman’s third and fourth console outings. So to say…