Old School Gamer Writer David Lloyd shares his thoughts on The Five Most Essential RPGs for Your Nintendo DS Catalogue. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey The Megami Tensei franchise started way back in 1987 with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei on the Famicom, but was mostly unknown to the West until it began to be…
Exciting news: Steam Workshop is pretty now. Or, at the very least, it’s prettier. Detailed in a Steam news post, Valve has released a Workshop update for all users, bringing an overhauled browsing UI and updated filtering options for finding whatever mod might wildly improve or severely blight your gameplay. “The next time you visit…
007 First Light is finally here, and we know there are lots of James Bond fans stepping into the exquisitely tailored suit of the world’s most famous spy* this week. While you’re practicing your spycraft in IOI’s new action adventure by arming yourself with gadgets, driving cool cars, sneaking through hotels, and blowing up airplanes,…
You probably haven’t heard of the indie puzzle game Ouros before now, but you may have seen it and possibly even played it in an altogether different game. That’s because, according to Ouros developer Michael Kamm, MiHoYo “copied” the game and put it into Zenless Zone Zero, a claim he backed up with some solid…
Last week was, ostensibly, the bullet heaven’s week. Steam declared it so with an official store tag, which I believe means everyone has to call each new entry in the Vampire Survivors genre a bullet heaven under penalty of law. But at least for me, the standout game of last week wasn’t in the bullet…
In the days since the announcement of its impending end of live service updates, I’ve been returning to Destiny 2. And I’m not the only one: In the last week, Destiny 2 has drawn its highest daily peak player counts since early February as disaffected Guardians revisit their old stomping grounds in the wake of…
You can’t have an origin story without a training montage. That’s standard issue stuff even for future MI6 man James Bond. I was expecting the usual “press the thumb stick to crouch” and “here’s how to throw a punch” bits, but 007 First Light double-ohs down by putting you through Bond bootcamp for three entire…
Who says you need a mouth-breathing psychopath in black armor and a gross, pale old ghoul in a hood to have a Death Star? No Man’s Sky continues its seemingly endless parade of free updates today with The Swarm, which introduces a new threat to the universe: a massive space station called the Hive of…
After getting through the intensely long tutorial section, your first real test of spycraft in 007 First Light is figuring out how to infiltrate the hotel during Bond’s mission in Slovakia. If you’re a Hitman vet, you’ll have already cased the routes in and may be going for the related achievements. If this is your…
It is perhaps not surprising that the price of the Steam Deck has gone up, given the state of everything, but even so, just how far it’s jumped is straight-up shocking. The 512GB OLED model has gone from $549 to $789, and the 1TB unit has leapt from $649 to $949, an increase of nearly…