Zero hour. Ahoy, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we checked out SimCity for the SNES, and it was the western design that won the day with a pretty resounding 73% of the vote. We kinda like the Japanese version, but it seems it didn’t resonate with many people. Read…
“This was not a decision made lightly”. The free-to-play MOBA game Dragon Ball Gekishin Squadra celebrates its second anniversary in September, and to mark this occasion, Bandai Namco has provided a development update. The big news is the game will be getting a major update, “or rather overhaul” that makes significant gameplay changes, steering it…
Who’s that Pokémon? During a Pokémon LEGO Smart Play demonstration at the second day of PokémonXP, the Lego Group announced new sets would be arriving in 2027. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
In his review of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Dan Stapleton referred to “the tingly nerd-joy of hearing original Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen’s authoritative dialogue”. Every time the character appeared on screen, as he did many times in videogames like Transformers: Devastation and Fall of Cybertron or the middling movies, it was thrilling to…
Be Strong enough to be gentle
Star Wars Zero Company is enough like XCOM that everyone’s been calling it ZCOM, but there are some ways it isn’t quite XCOM enough for me. For starters, the radial menu you use to select each character’s actions, a controller-friendly system that flings all your abilities out in a circle around the active character like…
A native PC port of Nintendo’s 1999 platformer Donkey Kong 64 is finally here, and the team that pulled it off is proud to say that they used zero generative AI tools in the process. DK64 Rekongpiled, a recompilation or translation of the game’s code for modern hardware (as opposed to emulation), dropped today. All…
Hand Elden Ring players a handful of new armor sets and weapons and they’ll spend the next week or more experimenting and crunching the numbers to find out how they stack up against everything else in the legendary action RPG. That is all that’s been happening in the last few days since FromSoftware dropped the…
I don’t envy Deadlock players who are dying to see the hybrid MOBA-shooter continue to grow in its pseudo-early access state. Valve is notoriously elusive when it comes to communication and has never made any promises to update it on a regular schedule. This is the kind of uncertainty that drives Deadlock players to salivate…
Nodusfall may look like developer miHoYo has slapped an Elden Ring-colored paint job onto Monster Hunter, but there’s some signature HoYo innovation to find in between all those beastly battles and dark fantasy landscapes in its reveal trailer. While there aren’t an awful lot of specifics about the game right now, I’ve scraped together every…