I believe that Doomguy, the protagonist of seminal FPS series Doom, may have a more whimsical reputation than he deserves. The culprit? His belly, which is readily visible in Don Punchatz’s cover art for the 1993 classic. Doomguy did not go into battle wearing a jaunty little cutoff tee, nor did he have a uniform…
“But I thought this one was good in its own right”. Lots of people are extremely happy about the return of Fox McCloud in Star Fox, the character’s first brand new game since Star Fox Zero. But perhaps no one is happier than Takaya Imamura, the original character designer of McCloud and co. Imamura-san has…
Category: Events May 7, 2026 Vampires, Werewolves, and Hunters Take the Stage at Nacon Connect 2026 Cryss Leonhart, Lead Community Manager, Nacon Ah, here we are again. Nacon Connect has rolled around and we are eager to show what our studios and partners from across the globe, have been cooking, drawing on their cultures and…
“I wish I had thought of ten million dollars, because he would have said yes”. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. Jez San occupies a pretty unique place in…
Days before committing the world historic sin of putting quest markers into The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, modder RPGKing117 already earned himself a pardon: He created a mod that lets you play The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind on the in-game Pip-Boy and computer terminals of Fallout 4. RPGKing117 has a nice demonstration of the mod…
Blood Vial, a self-described “retro-inspired micro-FPS” that hit Steam earlier this week, is a lot like Splatoon—except instead of starring charming squid teens swimming through the ink spread by their paintguns, you play as a leaky, gun-toting vampire diving through the freshly-spilled gore of murderous pseudo-Catholics on a blood-soaked quest for revenge. So, really, it’s…
Valve has announced that the next wave of Steam Controllers will only be purchasable through a reservation system similar to the one used early in the Steam Deck’s life cycle. The announcement post does not specify when, exactly, this next round of controllers will make it into customers’ hands, but reservations are set to open…
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Hit(monlee) after Hit(monchan). In the years to come, I’ll look back on March 2026 as a key turning point in my life. From that moment on, my daily existence can be chronologically sorted into two camps: the time before Pokémon Pokopia‘s Title Theme was stuck in my head, and the time after it. I knew…