Mecha Break concluded its most recent open beta period on Steam on Sunday, March 16 after bringing in a peak of over 300,000 players. Players weren’t shy to give Chinese developer Amazing Seasun a huge amount of feedback about their experiences, and it seems like the studio is taking note. Amazing Seasun is considering changing…
Crystal Dynamics, which is currently working on a Perfect Dark reboot and a new Tomb Raider game, has announced the layoff of 17 employees. “This morning, Crystal Dynamics made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 17 talented team members,” the studio said in a message posted to X. “We did not make this…
I’m under no illusions that I’m some rugged survivalist or Will Smith’s character in I Am Legend. If I’m alive when our species stumbles its way into the end of days, my plan is to react poorly, grab a bite to eat, and die. But I’m confident I’ll die happy, because despite all the meaninglessness…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A grizzled detective one week away from retirement sits at his desk in a dimly lit office, clearly frustrated by a criminal mastermind who continues to elude him. Strewn across his desk and pinned to the bulletin board behind him are photos of the perp he’s been pursuing…
To mark the 10th anniversary of its old-school isometric RPG Pillars of Eternity, the game that (in a very roundabout way) gave us Avowed, Obsidian has rolled out a big new patch and an even bigger piece of news: It took a full decade to happen, but turn-based combat is finally on the way. “Coming…
Soccer players aren’t generally known for their fighting prowess, but that’s not stopping SNK from adding famed footballer Cristiano Ronaldo to the lineup of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the latest addition to the long-running Fatal Fury series of fighting games. “One of the top football players in the world,” Ronaldo’s character page states….
According to HowLongToBeat, Atlus’s 2024 RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is a mere 65-and-a-half hours long—if you stick to the critical path. Go for the mad completionist playthrough and you’re looking at 105 hours of turn-based battles, cutscenes and life simmy chats with your party members, which is objectively a lot of game. But imagine how much…
Category: Games March 26, 2025 Lies of P’s Future Begins with a Journey into the Past Jeff Rubenstein Every generation or so, a new game genre ascends in popularity, carving out a spot in player’s hearts, with its breakout hit spawning countless imitators: think the Platformer, the FPS, the Open World, the Soulslike. While dozens…
I didn’t watch HBO’s Game of Thrones series—I get my fill of political intrigue and badly-behaved dimwits from the real world, thanks—and so when the whole thing fizzled out like a wet tissue tossed into a burn pit, it was a bit of a non-event for me: I was mostly just surprised at how quickly…
There are only so many times a horrible naked screaming man can scare you before it becomes a little rote. Just yesterday, our own Kara Phillips took a deep dive on the difficulties faced by horror games in keeping players engaged and susceptible to a good scare. And with the release of yesterday’s big new…