When Pax Dei launched in early access last year, I was pretty excited. Developer Mainframe Industries painted a vivid picture of clashing kingdoms, a player-run economy, and even the ability to become, essentially, the Pope. What we got initially was a pretty generic survival crafting game where simply making a pair of trousers took almost…
Beware the Scissorman! Human Entertainment’s terrifying Super Famicom title Clock Tower has just received a new unofficial version for the Game Boy Advance 30 years after its original release, giving fans a fresh way to experience the legendary horror game. The game, which focused on the story of an orphan named Jennifer Simpson and her…
This piece discusses themes around disordered eating, dieting, and diet culture throughout. I’ve spent far too much of my life deeply entrenched in diet culture and all of the bullshit that surrounds it, which made the early chapters of Consume Me feel like a terrifyingly accurate time capsule. The game serves as a semi-autobiographical take…
We’ve seen gaming peripheral companies make a dent in the premium gaming keyboard market, so why not audiophile headphones? That’s what SteelSeries must’ve been thinking when it put together the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite—a headset with new drivers and heaps of connectivity. Oh, and a seriously large price tag. The Arctis Nova Elite launches today,…
If corporate consolidation of one of the biggest entities in the video game industry by private equity, a Saudi Arabian investment fund, and a major investment firm doesn’t signal a worrying future for EA, leveraging AI to further cut costs will do the trick. The $55 billion required to buy out EA includes $20 billion…
“I didn’t use my own face as a reference”. If you know Ridge Racer, then you know Reiko Nagase. She’s the closest thing the series has to a mascot and was introduced as an unnamed character in the 1995 arcade title Rave Racer before being given an official name and enhanced status to coincide with…
Swine and dine. What if the Zelda series starred the Grim Reaper? What if it starred a pig? These are questions we all ask on a daily basis, right? Well, Spindle is here to answer them. This upcoming pixel art action adventure is set to arrive on the Switch eShop on 13th October, and it…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s beta is just days away, scheduled to kick off on October 2 for early access players (October 5 for everyone else) ahead of the game’s official release on November 14. But before you get to jump in and check it out, Activision wants to make sure that you’ve got…
Mathematically, Borderlands 4 has, give or take, 30 billion guns and plenty more shields, class mods, ordnance, and so on to bump that number to an even more incomprehensible level. For some godforsaken reason, there are a handful of items that talk. During use, certain legendary gear pieces are right chatterboxes, and I found this…
What would you say is the definitive soundtrack to your youth? Is it a favourite album? Or perhaps the ambient sounds of summer, like bicycle wheels rolling over or a chorus of cicadas? For me, it is undoubtedly the nostalgic scream of a dial-up modem. Strap 12 of those bad boys together, and you’ve really…