“Spider-Man: Friend or Foe” is a tribute to the beat-em-ups of yesteryear that will provide plenty of smiles your first play through. After that, much like the games it gets its inspiration from, it becomes a title that is played in company with friends looking to just relax, rather than be immersed in a hardcore…
Here’s a first look. The Pokémon Trading Card Game is currently booming and this trend looks set to continue with the reveal of the new set. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The near future plans of many game studios depend on whether or not Grand Theft Auto 6 actually releases this year, and making the wrong guess could be disastrous for some of them, says Ben Porter, director of consulting at games industry intelligence firm Newzoo. “If you’re a game company who’s holding its breath waiting…
If somebody asked me how to make Counter-Strike 2 more casual while still keeping its signature trappings—bomb sites, economy, silent walking, low time-to-kill—I’d first ask why they’re trying to force a square peg into a round hole. There is no such thing as kicking back and “relaxing” with a round of CS2. It’s extremely difficult,…
Fatshark has done a fair bit of fooling around with Darktide’s format offerings lately, with the recent Havoc mode expanding the game’s difficulty options and variance. But while Havoc caters to endgame players looking for a challenge, Mortis Trials—laid out in the latest blog post from community manager StrawHat—are described as “chaotic, with easy access…
So there I am playing a game with a big, beautiful open world. It’s got lovely scenery and eye-catching landmarks, it’s stuffed with quests and missions and collectibles, and I’m free to go in any direction I choose. What’s the problem? Me. I’m the problem, or at least I’m part of the problem, as former…
It’s been eight years since the strategy-RPG Battle Brothers—turn-based Mount & Blade meets XCOM, as PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti once described it—made its debut on Steam, and nearly two years since its last update. But despite that passage of time, and the fact that developer Overhype Studios has moved on to a new game called…
What defines Atlus’s modern RPGs more: the characters you spend dozens of hours befriending and romancing, or the menus that pack more rizz into a single font than most entire games? If you’re judging by presentations at this year’s Game Developers Conference, Atlus knows what the people want: there wasn’t a talk on the former,…
BritneysPAIRS has done it again! The release of CoinOPS Deluxe “Inspire” (aka Micro) has taken the retro gaming community by storm, setting a new benchmark for quality and craftsmanship in loaded front ends. This stunning release is more than just a gaming platform—it’s an experience, meticulously designed to immerse you in a world where art…
BritneysPAIRS is back with a bang, delivering the highly anticipated CoinOps Deluxe 2025 MAX—a fully loaded powerhouse of retro gaming goodness! At 109GB, this release is the biggest and most ambitious build yet, redefining what it means to bring the arcade experience home. If you thought the Inspire release was something special, MAX takes things…