Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love! While Castlevania has had several 3D outings since the series began in 1987, it’s typically a lot more common today to see game developers drawing influence from the series’s 2D entries; games like the original Castlevania trilogy on the NES, Symphony of the Night, and the portable games…
Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: slaying yokai in Sengoku period Japan in Nioh 3 This week I’ve been: hammering every Hulk I can lay my hands on in Helldivers 2 I love melee combat in games, but it never quite clicked for me with Helldivers 2. The closest…
Stardew Valley is basically the videogame equivalent of Star Wars at this point—even if you’ve never seen a single movie, you probably still know who Darth Vader is. You’d think being an all-encompassing phenomenon would mean that every stone had been turned and every secret discovered. Well, nope. As Barone tells IGN in a recent…
Normal Poipole. Back in 2016, Pokémon Sun and Moon gave us our first look at the Ultra Beasts. They are a weird-looking group of creatures, to say the least, heralding from the ‘Ultra Space’ dimension, and thus appeared rather different when compared to the general squishiness of most other Pokémon designs. Well, according to former…
New ‘Burai Complete Edition’ announced for Japan. The MSX2 version of River Hill Soft’s fantasy role-playing games Burai Joukan and Burai Gekan are being reissued on Nintendo Switch later this month, in Japan, as a part of a new “complete” edition, courtesy of Mebius and the game’s creator Takeo Iijima (h/t: 4Gamer!). As you may…
If you’re anything like me, your Epic Games Store account is a kind of Library of Alexandria of free-but-unplayed games. Every so often you open the site, add whatever the current free game is to your collection, then never, ever, ever play them. Perhaps some day a long winter will come, and we’ll all sit…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. January saw players continue to scavenge, fight, and extract in Arc Raiders, which topped the US PS5 charts, while players in the EU prepared for the World Cup with EA Sports FC 26. The new fighter 2XKO debuted…
Rip and tear, old-school style. Evercade maker Blaze has announced it will bring the DOOM series to the platform this year. The teaser shown below doesn’t give much away, but it would be reasonable to expect a DOOM collection showcasing at least the first two titles, which were originally released on PC and console back…
Howdy, partners! Well folks, we had an inkling that it might be on the horizon, and Nintendo has just made it official. A Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase has been announced for Thursday, 5th February 2026. The Direct will kick off at 2pm GMT / 3pm CET / 6am PT, and it promises “roughly 30 minutes”…
Investors be fickle. Nintendo released its latest financial report this week for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, confirming that the Switch 2 has sold 17.38 million units. Despite all of the numbers going up, investors have nevertheless flinched at immediate market conditions and ongoing concerns around component prices. As such, Nintendo’s share price has dropped…