They say fashion has a habit of repeating itself. What was once deemed gauche and detestable by one generation becomes the next’s “big thing”. Yep, like your grandad’s long socks to Gen Z, and skinny jeans to Millennials, the big beige retro rig has landed square and center on our desks again, at the forefront…
After the stratospheric success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Hasbro was naturally keen for a follow-up. The only problem? Larian wasn’t interested in doing Baldur’s Gate 4. And it turns out the second person Hasbro asked didn’t want the job either. Larian famously decided to move on from Baldur’s Gate and get back to working on…
Released first on the PlayStation 3 and as a launch title for the PlayStation 4, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has remained a defining entry in the series for more than a decade. When we first explored the idea of bringing Edward Kenway’s journey to modern hardware, it quickly became clear that a traditional remaster…
It’s a bold strategy Cotton. With Irem’s video game division being dissolved in 2011 after Japan’s Tōhoku earthquake, some staff went on to found Granzella Inc. Interested in revisiting their most beloved work, Granzella then got hold of the R-Type licence for 2007’s R-Type Tactics, a turn-based strategy affair for Sony’s PSP. A sequel followed…
Category: Games June 29, 2026 From North Star to South Town – Kenshiro Is Coming to FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves! Yasuyuki Oda, Producer, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Summary Kenshiro from “Fist of the North Star: HOKUTO NO KEN” is now available as a Season Pass 2 DLC character in FATAL FURY:…
This article will contain spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an excellent anime, and it’s also very sad—its ending does a great job of reaching into your chest, busting past your ribs, grabbing your heart and ripping it out. It’s a genuinely thoughtful examination of the cyberpunk genre’s dystopia, the corrupt ideas of success…
You’re joking, aNoTHer one?? We are just one day away from Nintendo’s next game-specific Direct, and we now know that it’ll be followed by yet another Treehouse: Live show. The Splatoon Raiders Direct gets underway tomorrow at 3pm BST / 4pm CET / 7am PT / 10am ET, where we’ll hear “more info on the…
Great news: if you were gearing up to deliver a searing oration against something Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said a decade ago, he’d like to hear it too. In a recent chat with the Human Can Opener Podcast, the RPG vet discussed the ways that game developers all…
Yoko Kobayashi designed the iconic ship and the game’s other characters. Thanks to a new interview, we now know who was responsible for creating the amazing characters in Sega’s Fantasy Zone series of scrolling shmups. As spotted by VGDensetsu, Beep21 (paywalled) has just spoken to Yoji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Masaki Kondoh to celebrate forty…
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders went live last week. To some it was a moment of joy, finally after all these years we find ourselves a step closer to the videogame that has been promised to end all other videogames. But for others the one look at the price tag was enough to reality check…