You’re spoiled for choice these days if you love games about doing chores, which I guess I can’t fault you for given the thousands of hours I’ve spent making numbers go up in various MMOs. If cozy cleanup games like Unpacking or PowerWash Simulator aren’t enough to sate your hunger for affectionately simulated mundanities, you…
Spoilers a-plenty, obviously. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has a lot of easter eggs. Too many, in our opinion. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that the whole film is essentially propped up by constant hits of nostalgic dopamine. But that’s not to say that the easter eggs themselves are bad –…
Echo Point Nova is a wonder. Greylock Studio’s indie FPS enchanted us in 2024 with its high-flying, hoverboarding, hyperchill gunplay, and—if ziplining onto a cloud with an energy grappling hook to shotgun blast an enemy soldier during a slow-motion backflip somehow left any room for doubt—it secured a permanent place in our hearts with a…
Six years after it was announced, and two years after it last came up for air, we have new proof of life for State of Decay 3, the zombie survival shooter in development at Undead Labs. And this time, it’s not just a promise that it’s still happening, but a call to the community to…
Last week, we asked you to share gaming sidekicks using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: RhodWulfLeon shares Freya looking fierce in God of War Ragnarök Themarkplumb shares Kliff with his bear bud in Crimson Desert baranselyekta shares Venom Snake with his trusted partner D-Dog in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain….
Not content with adding one kind of sea power to Rust in February’s Naval Update, Facepunch studios has introduced a whole other way to exploit the oceans in its latest patch for the survival game. The Spring Clean update adds a bunch of small but significant changes to the game, but the one that immediately…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In March, MLB The Show 26 led the US charts, while Crimson Desert took the top spot in the EU and ranked among the top three in the US. Meanwhile, The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin dominated the free-to-play…
Play! Charge! Stream! Capture! Accessory maker Genki is famous for producing a wide range of Switch-related items over the past few years, and the Covert Dock range has always been one of my personal favourites. With the original Switch, the Covert Dock enabled me to leave my OEM Switch Dock at home and take my…
If you’re looking for something to do in about three weeks’ time, HoYoVerse is now taking signups for a round of closed beta testing for its next game, Petit Planet, that’s set to begin on April 21. Petit Planet puts players in charge of an entire world, contained within the vast Starsea, where they can…
Brian Raffel, who co-founded Raven Software in 1990 with his brother Steve, is retiring from game development after 36 years. Brian has been Vice President of Raven since its inception, and Studio Head since 1997. In 2024, he began sharing this position with Dave Pellas, who joined Raven in 2011. Raffel has also served as…