‘Hopefully as many people as possible get to play it before Nintendo flips out’: Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks

August 6th, 2026 was the 40th anniversary of Metroid, one of the few videogames in history to be so influential it has a whole genre named (at least partially) after it. You’d be forgiven for not realizing last Thursday was such a significant date because Nintendo seemingly forgot itself—and not for the first time. But…

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Halloween: The Game is banned in Australia because incentivized drug use is bad but incentivized ultra-violence isn’t

Halloween: The Game is the next multiplayer horror game from Illfonic, the studio behind Friday the 13th and Predator Hunting Grounds. Like Friday the 13th it’s an asymmetrical affair: one player takes the form of psychotic masked serial killer Michael Myers, while everyone else plays the hapless survivors. It’s set to release on September 9,…

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