Everyone loves a little mystery. Heck, players have been trying to solve a puzzle in Cyberpunk 2077 for almost three years. And now some Starfield sleuths are trying to solve a puzzle in Bethesda’s space RPG. Well, maybe. A strange cube covered in dots found in Starfield vexed one player enough to ask for help…
Children of June. We’re on the cusp of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, although it looks like Nintendo and co. are giving Switch 2 owners plenty of excuses to stay inside and avoid the heatwaves. Square Enix is serving up a double helping with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and The Adventures of Elliot before Nintendo…
Remember dropping 25¢ into Galaga, praying for one more wave? In 2025, that same fist-clenching, heart-in-throat tension is back… except your astronaut is riding a rocket instead of a spaceship, and the quarters are rupees or USDT. I fired up the Hindi edition at https://astronautcasinogame.in/hi/ on a CRT filter for 220+ hours straight (November 2025)…
Arc Raiders‘ Headwinds update has added a bunch of new, annoying quests to complete, and Movie Night is certainly a pesky one. Sure, it’s not quite as down to luck as With a View, but you’ll have to brave Stella Montis’ Shredder-infested Cultural Archives instead. In Movie Night’s most complicated step, Apollo sends you to…
When a trailer for Midnight Murder Club, a lights-out multiplayer party shooter, aired at The Game Awards last December, I clocked the developer logo immediately. It was Velan Studios, the folks behind the dodgeball brawler Knockout City. That game was excellent, but like so many live service games that cultivate a modest audience, it died…
It’s happened again: Screenshots and footage from a playtest allegedly for Project Rene have leaked and fans are disappointed. It’s me. I’m fans. The cross-platform, online Sims game is still so totally shrouded in mystery and each new playtest leak just makes me wish that Electronic Arts would say anything to its players. A newly…
Slice to kill. The problem with the term ‘Metroidvania’ is that it’s a far broader genre classification than some give it credit for. Depending on where they fall on the spectrum between the exploration-heavy Metroid series and the combat-centric Castlevania series, it’s possible for two games to both be considered Metroidvanias while playing, looking, and…
Coming to PC, Switch 2 and PS5. Jaleco’s Ninja JajaMaru is getting another taste of fame thanks to a new release on PC, Switch 2 and PS5. As revealed during today’s Pixel Arcadia show, Ninja JajaMaru – Yokai Night Parade is described as “a groovy new adventure” in which players will have to “hack and…
You probably haven’t heard of the indie puzzle game Ouros before now, but you may have seen it and possibly even played it in an altogether different game. That’s because, according to Ouros developer Michael Kamm, MiHoYo “copied” the game and put it into Zenless Zone Zero, a claim he backed up with some solid…
Shader compilation woes are, to my mind at least, one of the scourges of modern gaming. Nothing brings you out of the experience quicker than unwanted hitches and stutters as a game struggles to compile shaders in the background before they’re needed. Microsoft thinks it might have the solution, however, by providing pre-compiled shaders, downloaded…