Improvements, bug fixes and more. Too Kyo Games and Marvelous are still showing support for The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy in 2026 with regular updates, and the latest one has now been announced. It’s a relatively small one compared to some of the previous updates, but it does include some notable improvements such…
According to a recent job listing, Blizzard is cooking up a new game in an engine and a genre that none of its releases have used before. The studio is looking for a “Lead Designer, Innovation” to run development on a “AAA open-world shooter” without a name. Right now, every Blizzard game except Hearthstone (made…
If you’re signed up for Steam client betas, you might have noticed that the storefront looks a little fresher today. That’s because Valve is testing some updates to the Steam store home page that, you guessed it, “aims to make it even easier for you to find new games by displaying more content and information.”…
Watch out, Mephisto: A true terror has arrived in Diablo 4 in the form of a giant chicken. It’s April Fool’s Day (or April Fowl’s Day, if you will) and Blizzard has unleashed a new world boss that drops entirely unique, chicken-flavored loot. I barely missed the window to battle the beast, but players in…
“Minishoot’ Adventures is a delight, questionable apostrophe use in the title and all,” we wrote back in 2024, in a roundup of the year’s great crop of metroidvanias. Compared to its contemporaries Animal Well and Nine Sols, Minishoot’ Adventures didn’t get a ton of attention two years ago, but it was a realhead’s hidden gem…
Amidst its ongoing Japanese patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair, Nintendo thoroughly stirred the legal pot on this side of the Pacific when news broke in September 2025 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had granted the publisher US patent 12,403,397—a patent describing a system for battling summoned characters. Despite concerns about how…
20 years after Garry’s Mod changed pretty much everything, Facepunch Studios has revealed that the sandbox successor s&box (yes, pronounced “sandbox”) will finally launch on Steam on April 28. The news arrived not with a big announcement or flashy marketing push, or any kind of fanfare at all—it just popped up quietly in a Steam…
A new Tangrowth. We all need a little bit of lightness in the world at the moment, right? Pokémon Pokopia has been providing a lot of people that on Switch 2, but if you’re out and about in London between now and 30th September, there’s another way you can get some adorable Pokémon goodness in…
The only way to make a decent April Fools’ joke these days is pretend you’re making something totally ridiculous and then actually make that thing. That’s the route Treyarch took with its seasonal goof in Black Ops 7, which it unveiled today with an X post depicting a map no larger than a single room….
The decision is “non-final” but Palworld battle continues. Nintendo has been hit with another blow in its ongoing legal battle with Palworld, as the US Patent Office has rejected its controversial ‘summon character and let it fight’ Pokémon patent. According to Games Fray‘s Florian Mueller (via VGC), the non-final rejection — meaning Nintendo has two…