Title deals with dark, mature themes. One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was undoubtedly the release (and accompanying marketing campaign) of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. It marked the first proper new entry in the Famicom Detective Club franchise since 1989, bringing with it a whole bunch of dark, mature themes…
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Doomguy has been everywhere. He’s been to Mars, he’s been to Hell, he’s been to Thatcher’s England. But what’s he do between monster-murder sprees? He pops down to a museum opening to better himself. In Doom: The Gallery Experience, you walk around a rejigged E1M1 with a cheeky glass of red in hand looking at…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
If you’ve played SpaceChem, Infinifactory, Opus Magnum, or any of the other engineering puzzles of Zachtronics you’ll be familiar with the Zach-like subgenre—visual programming games where you build a system to turn input into output, every level a lesson in learning the tools, and then realizing there are multiple ways to achieve your goal with…
First reported by GamesRadar, Hideo Kojima revealed in a year-end Twitter post that his upcoming projects OD and Physint have encountered difficulties due to the SAG-AFTRA strike that began last July and remains ongoing. “For OD, we developed the game and had actor and environment scanning,” Kojima wrote as part of his 2024 year-in-review. “In…
Here’s some good news for owners of Barrels of Fun’s first pinball machine Labyrinth and fans of the company in general, like myself. The Company announced this morning that it has hired the highly-regarded pinball industry veteran Butch Peel to write his famous pinball manuals for it. Congratulations to both Barrels of Fun and…
We began this year with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and ended it with Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Both are new games from beloved institutions of 2010s triple-A single player games, their first outings in many years—a full decade since Arkham Knight and the last Dragon Age game, while it’s been five years since…
Streamer and former pro FPS player Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has announced a January “Fragathon” for charity, with the main event being a promise to donate $1 (with potential multipliers) for every kill he scores on-stream over the coming month. “Last year, I lost my dad to cancer, and ever since I’ve been looking for ways…
Black and blue, not white and gold. Fresh images of what looks to be the left Joy-Con controller from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ hardware have been posted online, supposedly originating from China. Hosted over on Reddit by ‘thisSubIsAtrocious‘ and subsequently shared all over social media, the Joy-Con sports the new magnetic rail with which to…