It got a surprise release this week. The latest Pokémon Presents broadcast earlier this week included the surprise release of a new puzzle game called Pokémon Friends. It’s available now as a free download on mobile devices and a one-time payment from the Switch eShop. Along with this are additional transactions, including DLC packs, which…
Even after all this time, Team Fortress 2 can still hold its own on Steam’s top sellers chart. It got a boost this week thanks to an update on July 24, which included a trove of community-created content. TF2 bounced up into the top 10 on Steam’s top sellers chart for a few days and…
Fans of Dying Light 2 will have to wait a little bit longer for the highly anticipated DLC-turned-sequel Dying Light: The Beast. Developer Techland announced on July 24 that the game’s release date has been delayed by four weeks, moving it back to September 19. Techland said in a statement on the delay: “It has…
Small-squad soccer game Rematch has blown up—no, really, it’s huge—over the last month since it released. Fascinatingly, developer Sloclap was also responsible for Sifu, the time-bending 2022 kung fu game. In a recent Reddit post updating Rematch’s now quite large community on its development, Sloclap addressed its opinion about the relationship between the two as…
After no news on Starfield at the Xbox Games Showcase last month, Bethesda has finally given fans the briefest of updates on the game’s future. In the patch notes for update 1.15.222 posted on Steam on July 22, Bethesda stated, “We’re continuing work on future updates and will share more about the exciting things we…
Dungeons & Dragons is rolling out another collaboration with Stranger Things, this time focusing on fan favorite heavy metal dungeon master Eddie Munson, from Season 4. Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club will be a board game-style bundle that has lots of thematic premade pieces to run a series of four D&D adventures for…
One Man’s Trash is a game inspired by that one guy who lost hundreds of millions in bitcoin in a landfill and then later tried to buy the landfill. In it, you dig into a junk pit with a vacuum “in a desperate (and probably delusional) hunt for your lost ‘PitCoin’ fortune.” In the process,…
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a simulation game set during the post-apocalypse where you scan survivors for signs of a zombie virus before either letting them through a military checkpoint to safety or… y’know, icing them. But I didn’t need to explain that because you’ve probably either played the free demo or, even more…
Just don’t mix-and-match. Ever since Nintendo introduced motion control with its Wii console, we’ve had to contend with bolt-on plastic accessories getting in the way of perfectly good Mario Kart multiplayer sessions. The iconic Wii Wheel, while a novelty, was widely regarded by seasoned players as the worst way to control the game – and…
The Elder Scrolls has a rollercoaster history with expansions and DLC. Bethesda’s fantasy RPG series has produced some of gaming’s most beloved supplementary adventures (such as Bloodmoon and Shivering Isles) and some of its most notorious DLC fiascos (horse armour). But the series’ affiliation with addons stretches farther back in time than any of these…