“There is some atmosphere and vibe which makes the Vector War special”. Hey, stranger. Pssst. Over here, I want to tell you a secret. You’ve seen the film Bloodsport, right? Where a group of international warriors battle it out in a secret underground kumite tournament to discover the best? Well, did you know the Vectrex…
What do Telly Savalas, Christopher Walken, Sean Bean, Yaphet Kotto, Sophie Marceau, Donald Pleasance, and Lenny Kravitz all have in common? They’re all Bond villains—or at least, they will be: A leaked trailer has revealed that Kravitz will be the face, hair, and spectacularly chiselled abs of Bawma, an elusive target a criminal mastermind in…
Pixels in rain. Cyberpunk games seem to be all the rage these days, and the latest to set its synthetic sights on the Switch is Neon Blood, a detective RPG from indie publisher and distributor Meridiem Games and developer ChaoticBrain Studios. Boasting 2D character sprites in a 3D environment, the visuals kind of remind us…
“It was impossible for Tecmo to release hardware”. Nearly two years before the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, the Ninja Gaiden and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile director Hideo Yoshizawa came up with his own pitch for what the future of handheld gaming might look like, and it’s pretty remarkable how closely it…
Hollow Knight: Silksong will get a little easier next week with the release of the game’s first patch, which among other things promises a “slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.” But what if, for some demented reason, you wanted to make the game harder? As it turns out, that’s on…
When you play a really good retro game for the first time, there’s an undeniable magic to the sense of whimsical discovery. For many gamers, it’s a feeling we’re forever chasing, and one that we would give anything to replicate. While it’s impossible to experience the classics again, there’s one way that we can come…
Last Flag, the new multiplayer shooter from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds, released onto Steam earlier this month. While it’s hard to glean precisely from the outside, the response to it seems to have been muted, despite developer Night Street games doing everything they could to raise its profile. The studio…
Top Deal: Squish, squish, squish, backspace, backspace, squish, squish, squish — “Dammit!” Backspace, squish, squish, squish, “Ugh!” Sound familiar? That’s what it can be like typing on a crappy membrane keyboard. You fingers deserve better. And they can have it, in the form of mechanical key switches. Are you a fan of Cherry MX Blue…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Nintendo has improved the gameplay experience. It’s not every day Nintendo rolls out a patch for a demo, but it’s actually released another one for the Switch’s new social sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. This bumps the “Welcome Version” up to Version 1.0.2, following an update at the end of May. So, if you…