The welcome release of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has brought a whole host of klassic fighting games to PC—and also brought many people face-to-face with the series’ unvarnished arcade AI opponents for the first time in years. They’re tough, but they’re the bad kind of tough. They openly cheat, regularly bending or breaking rules to…
Okay, is the vampire in *this* coffin? Vampire Survivors is the gift that keeps on giving. We’ve had a countless amount of free updates, expansive paid DLCs, and so much content that it’s so easy to lose hundreds of hours to. So, how’s about a completely new game? Yep, Poncle is spreading its wings and…
The fate of The Sims 4 has been a big question mark for, oh, over a year now. There was the announcement that The Sims 5 isn’t happening, the still-unexplained The Sims Hub collective platform unifying different games, the recent EA buyout news that has content creators stepping back from their official partnerships, and now…
Every Wild West revenge story has a ticking clock, but Erosion is setting that clock ahead. Way ahead. In the open world action roguelike from developer Plot Twist and publisher Lyrical Games, every time you die a decade passes before you respawn, and climbing back out of the grave means the world has drastically changed…
Sony said earlier this month that Marathon, Bungie’s super-sexy but deeply troubled extraction shooter, is coming out one way or the other in March 2026, and it’ll clean up the mess—that is, “make corrections”—as needed once it’s out the door. But it’s still making corrections before that, too, and interested run-and-gunners will have a chance…
Back in April, former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider described Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as “kind of to JRPGs what Baldur’s Gate 3 was to CRPGs.” He was more than just a little correct, as it turns out: Two years after Baldur’s Gate 3 won a record seven Golden Joystick awards, including Studio of…
By the beard of Zeus! After what felt like an age of early access waiting, Hades II finally arrived as a console exclusive on Switch and Switch 2 back in September. Two months on, and that Switch 2 release has scored a physical edition — what’s more, it’s a beauty. Read the full article on…
At today’s Xbox Partner Showcase, IO Interactive revealed its next celebrity-themed elusive target for Hitman: World of Assassination. Arriving on December 1, the free, limited-time Eminem vs Slim Shady mission sees the Detroit-based rapper recruiting Agent 47 to assassinate his young alter-ego, which has manifested on the material plane as a separate, homicidal entity. “In…
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 might be a hell of a lot sillier than even the original Red Alert, but it still holds up all these years later. If you never hopped off the classic RTS train, I have horrible news for your productivity at work: there’s an impressive fanmade browser version of Red…
What a combo. If you’re a long-time reader, then you know we love a bit of Jupiter’s Picross series. And we’re in for a treat on 27th November 2025, as we’re getting two brand new Picross games on Switch. Jupiter has announced Picross S Capcom Classics Edition and Picross S SNK Classics & NEOGEO Edition,…