Ghostrunner creators are back with a horror-infused alternate history of the Napoleonic wars—and the studio says it plays like a first-person soulslike

After a couple of smaller indie games, Polish studio One More Level made a splash in 2020 with the first Ghostrunner, which not only nailed a glistening cyberpunk art style at a time when people were still salivating over Cyberpunk 2077, but also managed to pull off what few other studios can manage: precision-oriented and…

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Denshattack is a game where you do Tony Hawk stunts with Japanese trains whose developers would not confirm whether I can make a train do a Christ Air

For years, one of the most spiritually potent images on the internet was Multi-Track Drifting: It’s a pair of double-page splash panels from the doujin parody manga Densha de D, depicting with mythic intensity a singular moment of locomotive stuntcraft. During a virtual preview event, developer Undercoders said it’s channeling that same spirit of train…

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Team Cherry will be making a ‘Special Announcement’ about Silksong on Thursday, and—wait, is it finally over? Can we all go home?

Silksong is at Gamescom—this much we knew—but after years of silence Team Cherry is finally saying something. Not buried away in Discord, not via an advertisement for a handheld console, but an actual, honest-to-Hornet announcement. Like, on its YouTube channel and everything. You can see the livestream here, but the atmosphere is electric. At the…

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