It’s often said that good artists borrow, and great artists steal. And given Doug Cockle, the voice actor for Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher 3, has been in the rare position of getting to see a character he’s played for years in videogames debut on streamed TV, portrayed for a stint by Henry Cavill…
It’s nearly time to rise from the crypt and build your kingdom! Our upcoming cozy puzzle game Fangtopia has been lurking in the shadows and is ready to creepy-crawl onto PlayStation 5 on October 26 – just in time for Halloween! Fangtopia is a world filled with merry monsters and goofy ghouls, crafted by your…
Misty-eyed. Y’know, given the fact that the first Pokémon movie was quite literally called Pokémon: The First Movie, we perhaps should have known that more would be on the way. But there are 24 now. 24. With a 25th on the way very soon, in fact. And so if you fancy playing catch up and…
Summary For the first time in history, a RuneScape game is coming to XBOX! Level skills from 1-99, wield powerful Skill Spells to master the wilds and bring down the Dragon Queen, Kuldra. Welcome to RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a survival game set in the RuneScape universe for 1-4 players solo or in Co-op. 1.0 releases on September…
Mini Massacres and Micro Motors. Nintendo has revealed three new releases joining the Nintendo Classics range today. Ikari Warriors, R.C. Pro-AM II, and Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom will be available to download for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Developed by SNK and released in 1986, Ikari Warriors is a vertically scrolling…
When it comes to the fighting genre of video games, no other platform’s total library is more dense in said category than that of the Neo Geo AES home console. Of the 118 officially-licensed games released for the AES, a whopping 51 fall under the category of fighting games. Essentially, that means that just over…
It makes so much sense I can’t believe it didn’t happen years ago: as revealed at Gamescom last week, Lego is finally fulfilling its destiny by making a city builder. And I’m happy to say I got my eager hands on an early build of Lego Skylines for a little preview. I do want to…
“I get how the user feels”. I absolutely adore Kaneko’s Aero Blasters / Air Buster. Released in arcades in 1990, I first saw it in a local public house and instantly fell in love with the bright, anime-style visuals and intense shmup action. When I discovered it had been ported to the Mega Drive /…
We investigate the origins of the mysterious console. If you were an avid fan of the UK video game show Bad Influence! in the early ’90s, it’s possible you may have memories of seeing a bizarre Sega Mega Drive clone that was featured on the programme, called the Scorpion XVI. Released at some point in…
Something’s wrong with me. No matter how many horror games I play, I just can’t get scared like I used to. Perhaps I’m the problem—maybe a decade of playing horror games pretty much non-stop has irrevocably altered my brain chemistry. Take Resident Evil Requiem, for example—that just doesn’t make the cut for a horror game…