Mecha Break launched in the wee hours this morning for those of us in the US, attracting more than 50,000 players in its first 10 minutes through the undeniable allure of cool robots. At time of writing, it’s ranked number 12 on Steam’s concurrent player charts. But not all that launch day attention has been…
Although there are times when the stealth gameplay is a blast, the mediocre controls and cliche-filled writing, combined with sloppy A.I. make the diamond that is hidden in “Styx: Master of Shadows” too difficult to find. Stealth games aren’t for everyone. In a society that prides itself on the speed and efficiency of its wants,…
“They even made this awesome version just for me”. Sonic Team Creative Director Kazuyuki Hoshino might be most famous for guiding the Blue Blur’s trajectory today, but he’s been with Sega since 1991, and one of his first projects was working on the Mega CD / Sega CD add-on for the Mega Drive / Genesis….
In a March 29 appearance on left wing streamer Hasan Piker‘s Twitch channel, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, offered her opinion on Musk’s prior claims of world-class performance in Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2. Musk has since admitted to paid account boosting in both games. “When I was 12, he was…
Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 3 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Square cooler screens, round cooler screens, shiny cooler screens, crappy cooler screens: Computex has gone absolutely nuts for cooler screens this year. Don’t ask me why; it’s just one of those things that happens…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…
The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior…
Details about the latest financial results meeting have surfaced where Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa answered a few questions from investors and gave an insight into what the Kyoto-based company is planning for the coming months. Naturally, the comments made about upcoming software for the Nintendo Switch was as vague as expected but Furukawa’s comments still…
It turns out that the prophesied Helldivers 2 patch that would make you, erm, soil your breeches(?) was definitely still in the pipeline, no pun intended. Helldivers 2 just got a massive, hefty update that’s shaken up the game’s progression system in a major way and, for the first time, brought Super Earth under threat….
Heavy hangs the crown of expectation. Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a sequel to the 2004 cult classic RPG by the now-buried Troika Games, and it has a lot to live up to. It needs to fight off the first game’s powerful air of nostalgia, while also stepping into the daylight during an…