If you’re like me and you’re addicted to keeping track of the unfiltered new releases page on Steam, you would have noticed the FMV genre is experiencing a renaissance. I’m not talking about Her Story, or The Bunker, or Late Shift: the most recent wave is coming pretty much entirely from Asia, spanning China, Japan,…
It’s not uncommon for Japanese games to include English voice acting, even for games that aren’t necessarily planned for release outside of Japan, just for the sake of maintaining an exotic vibe. PaRappa the Rapper for the Playstation and Sin and Punishment for the Nintendo 64 are fairly famous examples. Phase Paradox for the…
Palworld developer Pocketpair kicked off 2025 by launching a publishing division, and was immediately swamped with interest: It received more than 150 pitches for publishing deals in its first week alone. Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley said at the time that the new division “will respect the autonomy and vision of developers and work together…
We all have our blind spots, and mine is 2D platforming—which made diving into Silksong particularly painful for me last month. In the games I was raised on, movement either happened in three dimensions or while watching from a birds-eye view. When I’m expected to run and jump sidescroll-ways, my brain responds like a cornered…
Fletcher is the Ventrue clan’s Primogen in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and one of three vampires with an assignment that’ll have you scouring Seattle for collectables. After you meet him at the Makom Bar early in the story, talk to him again to hear his gripes about supernatural graffiti and receive a rather…
Frogwares announced The Sinking City 2 in 2024 with a bizarre teaser billing an overt shift to survival horror and a 2025 release target. Today, however, the studio said it needs more time, and has thus pushed the game’s release into 2026. The reason for the delay is twofold: First and foremost, Frogwares is a…
I don’t know who among you asked for it, but you’re getting it: Treyarch is looking at making changes to aim assist in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Treyarch touched on a number of adjustments to Black Ops 7 multiplayer being made in the wake of the recent beta, including an increase in footstep…
In one of your earliest quests out of the bunker in Escape From Duckov, Jeff sends you off to kill and loot a couple Rampaging Scavengers: “the red ones with butcher knives.” It’s a straightforward description, and the little suckers are hard to forget if you’ve encountered them. They aren’t hanging around as random spawns…
It’s not immediately obvious how to save in Bloodliness 2, and boy it sucks (in the not fun vampire way) to lose your progress in a lengthy RPG. Even knowing that Bloodlines 2 was pivoting to a more action game style, it’s not the save system I expected, so fear not if you’re scratching your…
There was a time when the flashing lights of arcade cabinets ruled shopping malls and bowling alleys. Coins clinked, 8-bit soundtracks looped endlessly, and every “Game Over” pushed us to try again. That spirit of excitement hasn’t vanished — it just moved online. Today’s slot developers are reviving pixel art, synth music, and fast-paced gameplay…