This is Juniper (Image credit: NPC Studio) 🎂 Birthday: Fall 26💅 Occupation: Bathhouse owner❤️ Loves: Rare artifacts and food💢 Dislikes: Bugs Somehow, Mistria’s most popular bachelorette is the one who doesn’t even want to be here. Are we all romancing Juniper due to chronic deficiencies in self-regard that can only be made worse fixed by…
Growing up in the ’90s, good joysticks were strangely hard to come by. The stiff sticks on my local arcade cabinets, already inferior to their Japanese counterparts, always seemed to be so worn down that I’d have to smash them from edge-to-edge just to register an input. And yet the sticks attached to my friend’s…
The island in co-op walking simulator Big Walk is home to lots of puzzles, and those puzzles can’t be completed by a single player. This is a co-op game in the truest sense of the word: you can’t get anywhere alone. Some puzzles involve flipping switches in unison, others require communicating over long distances or…
This is March (Image credit: NPC Studio) 🎂 Birthday: Spring 16🔨 Occupation: Blacksmith❤️ Loves: Perfect ores💢 Dislikes: Flowers, forageables So you want a little rivals-to-lovers arc with the prickly blacksmith? No judgement, I too came of age at the height of the tsundere tsunami so I’m not surprised that March has become by far the…
Cinder City, the upcoming “open-world cinematic third-person shooter set in a fallen near-future Seoul,” popped some eyes earlier this year when it came to Steam recommending 64GB of RAM. That turned out to be a mistake, but the minimum requirement is still 32GB, which is a lot—more than the majority of respondents to the most…
From zero to hero. Editor’s note: Due to the low resolution and peculiarities of how screengrabs display for Virtual Boy games on NSO, all the screens here are Nintendo press shots. I can honestly say that Zero Racers is the most fun I have ever had in a Virtual Boy headset. In fact, the more…
Every few years or so I find myself idly wondering whatever happened to Midnight Club, Rockstar’s arcade street racing series. I quite liked Midnight Club 2 back in the day, although I fell away from the series after that because, in fine Rockstar fashion, subsequent games weren’t released on PC. The series as a whole…
Metal Gear?! We’re quickly approaching the Autumn season of 2026 (crikey), which means the rate of game releases is slowly but surely starting to ramp up. August is packed with some pretty big-hitters too, including the likes of Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is—my god—three years old at this point, but it continues to do numbers. I don’t mean player numbers, though god knows it keeps doing those too, I mean that it keeps generating stats. How many deaths, how many murders, how many deployments of a weapon named “Poo-Scraper” in combat—that kind of thing….
Dagdan it. More than six weeks out from its 17th September launch, Nintendo has put out a Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct broadcast with over 20 minutes of details covering a bunch of characters, story points, and combat features. If you missed it, scroll down to catch up on the archived version. It certainly gave…