Give us a cooler premise, we dare you. Games don’t come much cooler than Sonokuni. This is a Hotline Miami-inspired action game developed by the Japanese hip hop group Don Yasa Crew and, just when you thought that premise couldn’t get any sweeter, it’s coming to Switch. Inspired by Japanese mythology, Sonokuni will see you…
Here’s one for you: when is a ‘body in a box’ not as macabre as it sounds? Simple—when it’s a tech startup. Wait! Put the turn-of-the-millennium trench coat and sunglasses combo down! Let me explain. The CL1 is described as “the world’s first code deployable biological computer” according to the splashy website, incorporating human brain…
“A confounding mystery. A hapless butler. An interplanetary threat.”. Jonathan Ackley, one of the co-directors of the 1997 point-and-click classic Curse of Monkey Island, has announced he and his design partner, Larry Ahern, are reuniting to work on a new comedy adventure game, and that they are currently on the lookout for a publisher. If…
WWE 2K25 is your best opportunity to get into the ring without having to go through years of training, and this year’s roster gives you more chances than ever to live out that dream. You’ll have the opportunity to make the most of 2K25’s character creator and bring your fantasy of taking home the WWE…
I confess that I forgot Frogwares was making The Sinking City 2, following its battle with Nacon over control of the original game. The announcement was made exactly a year ago, with a cinematic trailer and a few details: like the shift to survival horror and only optional detective work. Now we can see the…
In 2015, you died in Bermuda. In 2018, you died in Vinland. And I’m sorry to say that your luck’s not going to get any better in 2025, as you and your small crew fling yourselves into the cold void of space so you can die again, this time in an entirely different solar system….
Commemorate The Last of Us franchise with a brand-new controller; here’s a first look at the DualSense wireless controller – The Last of Us Limited Edition. Created in close collaboration with the creative team at Naughty Dog, this striking design features glossy trophy icons printed across the surface that call back to key moments, characters,…
Love is hell. To call à La Mode’s Sorry We’re Closed a survival horror is certainly accurate in many ways, but it also does a disservice to just how unique and fresh this debut title really is. While it absolutely borrows a few elements from genre classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill (including the…
Dip switches! Free games! Language support! Blaze has just launched the first Evercade firmware update of the year, and it offers some pretty big changes for owners of the VS/VS-R, EXP/EXP-R and Alpha. The headline news is that the Game of the Month system is being replaced by Highlight of the Month, “an opportunity to…
Katsura Hashino has been doing this a while. The designer, most famous for his work as director on Persona 3, 4, and 5 as well as, most recently, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has been working at Atlus since I was literally one year old, all the way back in 1994. So it’s with amused bafflement that I…