Another console port first. Hamster, known for its suite of retro Arcade Archives ports, has revealed its next Switch 2 game as part of the Arcade Archives 2 series. And, just like Ridge Racer, it’s another polygonal arcade-to-home port. This time around, it’s Air Combat 22, which is coming to both Switch 1 and Switch…
You may remember last year when 7-Eleven was running a Pac-Man promotion collaborating with Namco Bandai. Well, they’re at it again this year, but this time around they’ve partnered with Tetris on the occasion of the 40th anniversary celebration. They’ve got hats & tees, of course, but the featured prize is a Slurpee cup that…
You’ve probably noticed a seismic shift in the casual gaming space. Suddenly, everyone, from the sharpest financial analysts to the savviest marketing directors, is talking about Daily Quartiles, not the usual suspects like Wordle or Scrabble GO. It’s a genuine phenomenon that seems to defy the conventional wisdom of what makes a word game sticky…
It’s not a huge surprise to learn that dehydration is a major cause of death among beta testers of survival MMO Dune: Awakening. The fictional planet of Arrakis is so dang dry the inhabitants walk around in special suits that recycle their sweat, pee, and even poo into drinking water. When people die (or get…
Ever been idly clicking through the Steam store and something causes you to immediately hit the brakes and add a game to the top of your wishlist? That happened to me today while looking at upcoming city builders. There’s just something about an isometric city builder with retro pixel art that immediately appeals to me,…
You know that thing in games where you finally get acquainted with the controls, make it through the opening level, and then get a billion popups at once about the DLC you’ve unlocked? Those pop ups are how I discovered I was playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth‘s $110 Ultimate Edition. I didn’t intend to…
If there’s one thing you ought to know about me, it’s that as soon as any sort of folklore is put into a videogame, I’m there frame one. More so if it’s in a horror capacity. So, when Bramble: The Mountain King, an action adventure horror game inspired by Nordic folklore, was released in 2023…
The latest Famitsu video game software and hardware charts are now in direct from Japan and it has been a slower week this week for video game hardware. The Nintendo Switch family of systems managed to sell a combined 96,458 units, while the PlayStation 4 only managed 6,325, presumably because the PlayStation 5 will be…
The Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty expansion is set to arrive on September 26, but the big Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update, which will be free for all players, is going to roll out a little ahead of that: CD Projekt announced during today’s Night City Wire stream that it’s coming on September 21. The Cyberpunk 2077…
Are you ready for Hollow Knight: Silksong? Well, by my count, about 22,941 players are desperate for another fix of Team Cherry’s work, a number that’ll continue to rise over the intervening minutes of me sitting down and writing this article. Per SteamDB, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date of September 4 has driven swarms of…