Capcom’s announcement of a sequel to Ōkami came as a big surprise last year, not least because the original is notorious for being a commercial flop. But in a recent interview, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi pointed out that Ōkami’s reputation for underselling is no longer deserved, and because of that the publisher has wanted to…
If you’ve ever wondered how Saber Interactive ended up handling the remaster of one of the biggest shooters of all time, well, Saber’s CEO Matthew Karch recently regaled journalist Stephen Totilo with the tale of landing the contract for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and includes some of the most absurd business shenanigans I’ve read about…
Somewhere between puzzle and strategy game is Dawnfolk, a tile-placement city builder that has you plopping down buildings in order to gather resources so that you can build a settlement capable of driving back a supernatural darkness that has overtaken the world. From the fiery center of your camp you spread out across different terrain…
Every Wario platformer, ranked. Ahh, Wario, everyone’s favourite garlic-loving, chaos-breeding antihero. A mirror to Mario — whom he frequently competes against — Wario has been gracing the Mario franchise since 1992 when he was the main villain in the game Boy classic Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Since then, Wario has gone from…
Normally I feel about brand crossovers the same way I feel about poutine. Gravy and chips are both wonderful things when eaten separately, but combine them and you end up with a soggy mush that loses all sense of texture. But I’m willing to give Dave the Diver’s latest Like a Dragon DLC crossover a…
I’ll always be up for a game that riffs on John Carpenter’s The Thing, and the last few years have been especially strong for representation of hostile, amorphous alien life forms in games. We’ve had The Thing set on an oil rig, The Thing where you play as the Thing, and just plain old The…
First DLC fighter revealed, physical release confirmed. The fighting game tournament EVO hosted its awards show this weekend and also shared some special announcements. One update, in particular, was a release date for the tag-team manga and anime fighter Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact. It will be launching for the Switch and multiple other…
Do a Box Art Brawl! Open the wings and check your G-Diffuser system because it’s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we fly into combat this week, let’s hit the brakes and recap what happened last time. In our previous match-up, we looked at two covers for Wario World on GameCube —…
This super collab starts next month. As part of the Batman Day celebrations last year, Sega announced a special collaboration with DC Comics, where the blue blur and friends would be teaming up with the Dark Knight and other legendary superheroes from the DC universe. Now, in a new update, we’ve got a look at…
Buried in the onslaught of Sony’s State of Play announcements—a scattershot blast of Too Much Videogame I’m still tweezering out pellets of—was the announcement of Metal Eden. Being developed by Polish studio Reikon, who formerly made birdseye action game Ruiner, Metal Eden’s only been seen briefly before, back when it was codenamed Final Form. Between…