Category: Games February 12, 2025 Perk up A Deep Dive into Overwatch 2’s New Perks System Alec Dawson, Lead Gameplay Designer, Overwatch 2 Summary Perks are exciting new abilities for Overwatch 2 heroes, offering wild gameplay twists and creative strategies. Lead gameplay designer for Overwatch, Alec Dawson, explains how Perks work. Overwatch 2 Season 15…
Here on Indie Retro News we do love writing about the Atari XL/XE, I mean seriously we can’t stop featuring the latest games released for this system. Well here we are with another story sent to us by Saberman, and it’s the latest new level update for the classic game of ‘Lord of the Orb’;…
You read that right! Super Daryl Deluxe, our parents’ favorite RPGvania with brawler-style combat set inside of a perfectly normal, sprawling, multi-dimensional high school, is coming to PS4. Like any other perfectly normal school, the students and faculty of Water Falls High are going missing, and the classrooms have been locked down for weeks. Daryl,…
By Charlotte Reber’s own admission, Dragon Age II is a somewhat counterintuitive choice for a Boss Fight book. After all, Dragon Age: Origins is the main famous, well-regarded game of the series, a fantasy epic role-playing game in the Bioware house style that takes place in an original fantasy setting. Reber’s book, while mostly…
Payday 3 has not had the smoothest of launches, with PCG’s Tyler Colp finding some positives in the latest instalment of Starbreeze’s heist-em-up, but concluding that much of it “needs a rework.” Players were similarly unimpressed with elements like the progression system, the always-online requirement combined with matchmaking woes, various stability issues and then the…
It’s all about the ‘SmartGlow’, man! The Atari of 2025 may not be the same company that spearheaded the arcade and home console revolution of the ’70s and ’80s, but it’s doing a commendable job of keeping those glory days alive through a selection of updated games and licensed hardware. We’ve already seen the 2600+…
Jagex has launched its open world survival crafting game, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, into early access, even though it was only shown for the first time on March 31. Ahead of its release, a developer update livestream was scheduled to share some more details on the game, including its coveted release date, but little did we know…
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 memory kit hits 4355MHz You know that friend of yours that can’t help but to go over the speed limit at every opportunity? That’s G.Skill, a memory maker that’s heavily involved in the overclocking scene, and with DDR4 RAM being relatively new, there’s plenty of uncharted memory frequency territory to explore. A…
The news comes 8 months after its failed crowdfunding campaign for Sovietborgs. Retro Sumus, the Spanish homebrew developer behind the Sega Dreamcast rail shooter Xenocider, announced earlier today that it has officially disbanded. In a short statement on social media, the studio thanked players for their continued support and suggested it was still possible to…