Has just been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Look, I’m a simple man. When you tell me your freshly-crowdfunded video game is inspired by such luminaries as Shining Force, Fire Emblem, and Final Fantasy Tactics, I sit up and take notice. That’s precisely what has happened in the case of Aegis Force: The Scorian War, a…
After a less-than-ideal early reception last year, Bungie made the call to indefinitely delay Marathon while it returned to the drawing board somewhat. Now, it’s officially back on the menu, and the Marathon launch time is drawing near. But release is far from the end of Bungie’s plans for Marathon, as it unveiled Season 1:…
Dungeons & Dragons, judging by the D&D Beyond site (which is owned by Wizards), is going through a bit of a revamp with its 2024 ruleset—in that it’s finally giving in to semantic ease and normal naming convention and just calling itself 5.5th edition, or 5.5e. Well, on one specific website. The system, originally dubbed…
‘Plump Pop’ originally landed in the arcades back in 1987. Taito’s colourful animal-themed “action game” Plump Pop is making the journey to modern consoles (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S) later this week (Thursday, March 5th), as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2. Originally released in the arcades…
It’s super-duper effective. Pokémon Pokopia is a good game. A really good game, in fact! It launches on 5th March 2026, but we and a bunch of other outlets have already provided our full verdict on the life-sim spin-off, and it seems that most are in agreement that it’s a really darn good game. In…
Knowing how to feed raccoons in Disney Dreamlight Valley is your gateway to unlocking the game’s cutest companion—at least in my opinion. You can unlock the biome they live in fairly early on in the game, and since their favourite food can be found here too, the rest of the work is fairly straightforward. As…
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Frosted Heights in Disney Dreamlight Valley, you would’ve seen foxes running around at some point. As is the case with any critter, you can unlock these fast fellows as companions, but they are one of the more challenging creatures to satisfy. Their favourite foods are slightly…
“Now pardon us as we retreat back into our vault”. Before the release of Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on the Switch 2, we heard some rumours about more Fallout games being revived. Ever since then, vault dwellers online have been searching for clues. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Esoteric Ebb is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody’s made since Disco Elysium, an RPG with a focus on exploration over combat, a literary, political bent, where your skills attributes talk to you. But it’s not some rehash of the things Disco did well and few have managed to replicate: Esoteric Ebb has…
Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Tyler has been making plans for PCG’s coverage of next week’s Game Developers Conference, which should shed more light on the issues at play here. Every time a game like Highguard craters, we collectively wonder why the games industry keeps chasing huge live service hits when…