Arrives 2026 for Steam & Xbox. We’re always on the lookout for cool, retro-inspired indie games to feature here on the website, and Kidbash: Super Legend is a title that fits that description to a tee. Developed by the Indonesian “visual-based storytellers” Authentic Remixes and the video game developer Fat Raccoon, it is an upcoming…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Talking about entropy in MMORPGs, and being a busy bee in World of Warcraft. I’ve noticed a trend—particularly in some recent RPGs—of, well, let’s call it ‘Netflixiness’. Dialogue designed to leave absolutely nothing to interpretation, to exposit information in the most direct way possible,…
A handful of hours with a preview build of Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree taught me a couple important things about myself: Something activates in my brain when I play anything that remotely resembles Hades, and, despite my experience with the genre, I’m really bad at controlling two characters at once. Although…
Enhanced edition to be shown at Gamescom. ININ Games has finally unveiled something we’ve all been expecting — Shenmue III is coming to Nintendo consoles in the form of Shenmue III Enhanced. No release date or window has been shared, but we’ll be getting an official announcement at Gamescom 2025, which kicks off tomorrow (19th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to assembled reporters at a dinner in San Francisco late last week on the topic of, you guessed it, AI, the applications of AI, and the vast sums of money moving behind the scenes to fund it. Despite being one of the most vocal advocates of the tech, Altman had…
When it comes to Gamescom, there are two kinds of people. The first: the event’s haggard attendees, who arrive in droves to hack through throngs of cosplayers and stand in three-hour queues. The second: people who elect to hang out at home instead and let all the news come to them. Canny. If you’re in…
Wait, how long?! Surprise! Nintendo has announced that it will be holding a special Kirby Air Riders Direct on 19th August 2025 (that’s tomorrow). The announcement was made via the Nintendo Today! app, where we learnt that the showcase will kick off at 2pm BST / 6am PDT / 9am EDT/ 3pm CEST and will…
Sovietborgs’ IndieGoGo campaign has one week left. If you’ve been visiting the site over the last few months, you might have heard of Sovietborgs, a new homebrew title in development from Retro Sumus, the small studio behind the 2021 Dreamcast game Xenocider. Featuring an over-the-top Soviet-themed aesthetic and a top-down run ‘n’ gun-style game in…
Brag or dive? The Nintendo first-party releases keep coming, and the first of two for August has wheeled onto the Switch 2. Drag x Drive has been out for a few days now, and it has proven to be a divisive one. Pairing up wheelchair basketball with the Joy-Con 2’s Mouse Mode, we actually had…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently attended a dinner with a small group of reporters, and apparently had a lot to say about the company, the future of AI, and some of its potential applications (via The Verge). No great surprises there. However, when it comes to, perhaps less savoury uses of the tech, Altman appears…