Happy birthday, but also why? Has it really been eight entire years? Yes, it really actually has, so sit up and pay attention at the back. Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which as every Xenoblade nerd worth their salt knows is actually the third game released in the series, dropped into existence on this very day back…
“Nice of him, that compliment (in my mind anyway)”. Gregg Mayles recently announced his departure from Rare after 36 years, which means the brains behind such classics as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie is no longer with the legendary British studio. While he’s very much focused on his future, Mayles is equally keen to…
Includes Zan II: Spirits, Zan III: Spirits, and Sangokushi Seishi: Tenbu Spirits. Edia has announced another compilation of Telenet Japan games. This time, focusing primarily on Wolf Team’s Zan series of Japanese-set simulation titles, which see players stepping into the role of a warlord tasked with commanding an army around a battlefield (thanks, Gematsu, for…
The Razer Kitsune hits a frame-perfect combo of ultra-light, ultra-thin, ultra-stylish fighting gaming. It swaps out a joystick for an all-button layout which makes movement input faster and more consistent. A must-have for anyone looking to take their fighting game skills to the next level. Key specs: Optical switches | PC & PS5 compatible |…
You’ll net yourself a whopping 175 digital trades in this bundle, giving you full and partial runs of Image’s greatest comics that started in the 2010s. Includes Black Science, Saga, Paper Girls, Prophet and loads more. View Deal Being a typically frugal Scot, I tend to keep my purse strings pretty taut this time of…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is releasing its final update for 2025 on December 9, which will welcome Cinderella to the valley at long last. Outside of this new arrival though, we don’t actually know a huge amount of information about what the Winter Ball update will have in store for us. Besides, that is, the standard…
Fan-made effort is looking promising, though. Square’s Secret of Mana (known as Seiken Densetsu 2 in Japan) is one of my personal favourites in the SNES library, so when I heard the news that a fan-made attempt to bring it to another of my beloved consoles – the PC Engine – is underway, I was…
“A special edition that fuses a physical comic book with a real, playable Game Boy cartridge”. A new indie title for the Game Boy is being described by its creator as a comic book in cartridge form. Triple Threat Terror is a wrestling title which is accompanied by a physical graphic novel and is the…
Say hello to ‘Sammy Salazar’. Tommy Tallarico was once famous for his long-running series of video game music concerts and impressive list of composing credits, but in more recent times, his name has become associated with fraudulent claims and the ill-fated Intellivision Amico. The full scale of Tallarico’s career of deception was exposed by the…
With a combat and item system that’ll remind you of “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” and a multi-player mode that borrows from “Super Smash Bros,” “Abyss Odyssey: Extended Dream Edition” is a nifty title that is great for hours or in 15-minute bursts. At the same time, many of the game’s biggest strengths also end…