“we are continuously considering ways to develop it further. Mega Man is one of the most recognisable video game characters out there. And while Capcom’s beloved Blue Bomber hasn’t had a brand new game since 2018’s Mega Man 11, the Japanese developer insists that he’s “one of our most important IPs”. At Capcom’s 46th Ordinary…
Monster Hunter Wilds is in a weird spot—it’s being buried under an avalanche of negative Steam ratings and community sentiment. At the time of writing, its recent reviews are “overwhelmingly negative”, with just 12% of over 20,000 user reviews being positive. Capcom’s fighting a war on two fronts—firstly, the performance for the PC version has…
Microsoft’s latest round of brutal layoffs and studio closures have garnered more attention than usual—possibly because Phil Spencer had the gall to boast about how its gaming business has “never looked stronger” in the same announcement that saw 9,000 employees laid off across its gaming division and several major projects cancelled. So much attention, in…
A Chinese FMV game that puts you in the role of a man exacting revenge on a series of ‘gold diggers’—statuesque women who con lovelorn men out of vast sums of money before vanishing into thin air—has plunged China into an exhaustingly familiar bout of gender tumult. The internet is alight with discourse about gender,…
ILL made quite the splash — or rather, splatter — when the trailer dropped at Summer Game Fest 2025. We saw a first-person horror game packed with guts, frenetic combat, and some heinously grotesque creatures — and we loved every disturbing little detail. So what kind of twisted minds can make a game like ILL?…
“What a colossal waste of talent.”. Last week’s layoffs at Microsoft and Xbox Games were shocking to say the least, with over 9,000 people losing their jobs, including veterans at Rare, Romero Games, and the cancellation of big projects such as Perfect Dark. This comes despite the fact that the tech giant reportedly made $26…
And agony for Toad fans! Sega’s popular mascot Sonic the Hedgehog will be playable in JNMartin’s unofficial Mario Kart 64 Dreamcast port, it was recently revealed. According to Falco Girgis, a member of the Sega Dreamcast homebrew community (who helped spread word of the project last month), the character will occupy the slot previously taken…
We finally got the news that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will be getting a second season three years later, and in celebration of this, alongside the announcement, we got to see a short official teaser trailer for everything that’s to come. A good chunk of this trailer focuses on Season 1’s story, namely David and Lucy. We…
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2025 has officially fired the starting gun, meaning dozens of speedruns, goofs, and charity drives are coming down the highway to a VoD near you. In case you’re unfamiliar, GDQ is a charity speedrunning event where streamers get together in a convention centre—this time, in Minneapolis—to livestream days upon days…
Hands-on with Limited Run’s new port and Retro-Bit’s rumble pad. When you talk about unbelievable programming achievements, the 1995 SNES port of DOOM is right up there. id Software’s FPS changed everything when it arrived on PC in 1993, and it was considered the benchmark release for many of the next-gen platforms which launched around…