I blinked, and it was Monday. I’m sure we’re all feeling that, but I made a mistake most grievous on Friday afternoon by installing both the card-slinging roguelike Slay the Spire 2 and the new Disco Elysium-like RPG Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally. I thought I would sample a little of this, a little…
Less than two weeks after New York state sued Valve for “letting children and adults illegally gamble” with loot boxes, a second, consumer class-action lawsuit has been filed making essentially the same allegation: That loot boxes in Valve games, like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 are “carefully engineered to extract money from…
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Just three months after the world premier trailer for Nagoshi Studio’s upcoming Gang of Dragon was revealed at the 2025 Game Awards, a Bloomberg report (via GamesIndustry) says NetEase has decided to end funding for the studio in May.Nagoshi Studio was founded by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi in 2021, after a 32-year run at Sega….
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You will never guess. Today’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct gave us one final look at the upcoming movie sequel, which lands in movie theatres on 1st April 2026. And while the trailer didn’t give us many new details, it did give us our first look at Wart in-action (after that poster teaser). The trailer…
You can take the Bungie out of Halo, but it’ll take more than a 16 years-past Microsoft breakup to take the Halo out of Bungie. The presence of the seminal FPS can be felt throughout much of Bungie’s new extraction shooter, Marathon, in ways both subtle and decidedly obvious. Acknowledging that Marathon and Halo are…
The fun of a loot-based action RPG disappears when monsters pop in a single hit and the only thing that goes up are the damage numbers. Right now, you can upgrade your gear all you want in Diablo 4, but the majority of the game doesn’t really require it.This is a problem in a genre…
Back in our January 2024 launch impressions of Palworld, I wasn’t kind about its shameless design counterfeiting, calling its creatures “a surreal gallery of familiar eyes, limbs, and silhouettes” built from “the reassembled pieces of existing Pokémon, adding a color swap and a couple tweaked details to hide the Frankenstein stitching.”I understand now that I…