“Some kind of shrine? An ornate lamp? A house for bats?”. Video games are full of little secrets, and a lot of the time, their existence is either hidden for decades or mused over endlessly. Take this example from Super Castlevania IV. At the start of the game’s second level, there’s an object on a…
Fortnite added Peter Griffin from Family Guy recently, and if you can push past the existential dread that sentence may give you, it’s a no-brainer. Once a PvE co-op builder, Fortnite’s Battle Royale game mode has long outgrown its humble roots and become an ‘Oops! All Franchises’ monolith. But somehow, Seth MacFarlane had never heard…
Finally! Heeeere we go! Nintendo has finally confirmed that a Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow, and it’s a Partner Showcase. Kicking things off on 31st July at 6am PST / 9am EST / 2pm BST / 3pm CET, we’ll be treated to 25 minutes of news on third-party games coming to the Switch and Switch…
Category: Games December 9, 2025 The Art of Fighting’s Kingpin Returns to South Town in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Yasuyuki Oda, Producer, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Summary As of Dec 9, Mr. Big from Art of Fighting joins Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves! Master Mr. Big’s moves and leave your…
We’ve seen gaming peripheral companies make a dent in the premium gaming keyboard market, so why not audiophile headphones? That’s what SteelSeries must’ve been thinking when it put together the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite—a headset with new drivers and heaps of connectivity. Oh, and a seriously large price tag. The Arctis Nova Elite launches today,…
In a recent video by SEGA Europe to celebrate the esteemed company’s 60th anniversary, Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi was interviewed. He spoke about Nintendo platforms both past and present and said that he personally believes that while the Nintendo Switch appeals to a wide ranging age group, the company mainly caters to the kids…
While many of you have probably played Shadow Dancer back in the day on the Amiga, some of you felt while the game was fun, it was lacking in graphics, noting by many as having an Atari ST colour-palette and no Parallax. Well one such user might be changing that negative view, as msmalik681 has shown…
Intel recently spilled the beans on its upcoming Panther Lake CPU architecture, which seems to be an iterative improvement over previous designs, plus the promise of being built on a new process node, 18A. But in case you’ve wondered about some of the broader design choices that went into the last couple of generations plus…
An acclaimed—albeit struggling—RTS studio developing a cute turn-based tactics game full of retro sci-fi Martians and animal soldiers sounds like one of those terrible April Fools’ not-jokes that inundate my beleaguered inbox every April 1. But Relic’s Earth vs Mars is very real. Relic takes big swings. Homeworld still feels like a groundbreaking RTS more…
Nintendo’s lawsuit claims it “infringes multiple patent rights”. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the Palworld developer Pocketpair in September of this year. In a notable development, Pocketpair has now released an update for Palworld which changes the Pokémon-like throwing mechanic in the game. As detailed in the latest v0.3.11…