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‘Captain Barrel’ Is A New Arcade-Style Platformer For Mega Drive / Genesis, Dreamcast, & Neo Geo

A PSP & Atari Jaguar port have also previously been announced. Neo Byte Force, the developer behind the run-and-gun action shooter Cyborg Force, is releasing a new arcade-style single-screen platformer called Captain Barrel, for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo AES/MVS, and Neo Geo CD (thanks @DanteMendes!). Physical versions of the…

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Crimson Desert is an unrestrained feast of violence, with a toolkit of moves that’s like a fusion of every action RPG protagonist of the past decade rolled into one

I had the joy of playing Crimson Desert, the first proper singleplayer effort by Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss, again this week—and while I had some sense of how the game works, given I played it during Gamescom last year, getting my hands on it in an air-conditioned London building rather than a stuffy,…

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Arcane co-creator reminds fans ‘there are always constraints’, dispels theories the show was rushed or restrained by Riot’s higher-ups

Arcane’s second season has hit some fans all weird—while I’m of the opinion that animation studio Fortiche did a pretty dang good job all things considered, cramming as much story as it possibly could into every frame, it’s also an imperfect show in the sense that all shows are imperfect. Coulda, woulda, and even some…

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An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

Elite Dangerous, the massively multiplayer spacefaring game, is known for its many ambitious storylines. The team at Frontier Developments has thrown quite a lot at players in the 12 years since its release: cryptic puzzles about a precursor race, entirely new and disruptive modes of transportation, and even a galaxy-spanning war against a swarm of…

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