Shortly after being attacked and stranded on an island, you’ll already find yourself deciding the fates of others in Avowed‘s Living Lands—let’s hope the Envoy didn’t bang their head in the carnage before washing up on the beach. Nevertheless, this precedent begins with Ilora, a shady individual locked in a prison cell, who you can…
Afterlife sim. There’s no shortage of games where you have to cleanse a town of ghosts. But do those games let you cleanse the ghosts themselves? Spirittea does. Canadian solo developer Cheesemaster brings us this Japanese- and Korean-inspired afterlife sim. It’s a brew of Spirited Away, Stardew Valley, and other things that mostly goes down…
During a night celebrating the video games of the past year, fans watching The Game Awards got a sneak preview of several exciting new experiences coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch in the near future. A trailer revealed that a new entry in SQUARE ENIX’s Bravely series, Bravely Default II, is coming to Nintendo Switch in…
The first one begins later this week. We’re now at the tail end of the year but that doesn’t mean Tetris 99 is slowing down. Following its Super Mario RPG event in November, Nintendo is now cramming in two final events for 2023. First up is one for WarioWare: Move It! taking place between 30th…
After a couple weeks of rumors, Xbox diehards were bracing for cataclysm today: Was Microsoft really going to announce that it’s going to give up on Xbox console exclusivity—or even consoles themselves—and start releasing its big games, such as Starfield, on PlayStation 5? It turns out: No, not really. Xbox boss Phil Spencer did announce…
Metacritic has just announced that its 10th annual user poll is now open for you to vote for your favourite video games, music, tv shows and more. You can list five of your favourite video games of the year and there’s also a chance to vote for your favourite game of the entire decade. Vote…
Sony’s latest State of Play featured a story trailer for Judas, the long-in-development first-person shooter from Ghost Story Games. Seriously, this thing has been in the works since 2017, when Take-Two shut down Irrational, with Ken Levine and a handful of other developers sticking together to form Ghost Story Games. The trailer opens on a…
Three years after its announcement, Analogue is finally shipping the Analogue Duo: a modern reimagining of NEC’s systems that can play games made for the TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, TurboGrafx CD, PC Engine CD-ROM, and Super Arcade CD-ROM. In an update on Friday, Analogue says the Duo will start shipping on December 11th and is on…
Bethesda RPGs are typically jam-packed with tiny details that most players will never notice, but which all contribute to the sense that you’re existing in this reactive, believable world. “It’s not just that I kill someone with a sword and there’s a reaction to the crime,” says former Bethesda producer Jeff Gardiner. “It’s the sense…
Microsoft aims for a unified experience If you’ve heard of Games for Windows Live (GFWL), then you’re probably familiar with some of its troubles. The difficulties some users had with fundamental things like logging in and updating the GFWL could produce some epic tales of woe. GFWL was deactivated last year, and with it went…