“We’re reigniting and rebooting the series”. SNK’s legendary run-and-gun series Metal Slug is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and to mark this milestone, the company has today released a special retrospective video showcasing the franchise’s history. It covers not only the past and present, but also taps into the series’ “ever-exciting future” with a teaser…
Over 19,000 new games were released on Steam last year, almost an unimaginable amount. So it doesn’t really come as a surprise that a few of all the new releases would share some similarities and even possibly the same name. But there’s Piece by Piece and Piece by Piece, two games from indie devs that…
Time was, the walls between console and PC games were hard and fast. PC had its strategy games and CRPGs, PlayStation had its Japanese bangers, Nintendo had Mario and Zelda, and Xbox had Blinx: The Time Sweeper (all the other companies were very jealous). But these days, not counting Nintendo, everything is everywhere. And everything…
Set up a dedicated gaming server for the most popular games Don’t let your computer’s parts off the hook just because they were swapped out in an upgrade; put them back to work! Half of the top-ten most-played games on Steam come with the option to customize your entire gameplay, right up through running your…
A lot of the badges you’ll collect in Peak revolve around things you can do while you make your way through each biome, or they challenge you with carting a specific item to different areas of the climb. There is the odd exception to this rule though, and the Ultimate Badge falls into that category….
Tim Sweeney, the CEO and co-founder of Epic Games, is not short of a quarter or two: depending on which estimate you go with, he’s worth anywhere between $5 billion and $9 billion. And it turns out that Sweeney has been using some of his cash to one admirable end: buying up swathes of forest…
Have you played Silksong? No no no, I don’t mean that rank imitation that passes for Silksong today. I mean original Silksong, purestrain Silksong, pre-patch Silksong. Everyone knows Silksong’s patch one—the game’s “first major patch”—which hit yesterday, really just fouled it all up. It made things too easy. It turned our beloved Silksong into, well,…
SEGA of America is excited to invite everyone to join us starting at 9AM PST on Saturday, November 14, through 9AM PST on Sunday, November 15, where we’ll be streaming for a full 24 hours in support of this year’s Extra Life charity gaming marathon live on our Twitch channel! Throughout our stream and until…
Tactical Breach Wizards was one of my favourite games from last year—you can read my full thoughts in my Tactical Breach Wizards review—but in case you’re unfamiliar, it’s a turn-based tactical RPG with great writing, interesting worldbuilding, and a razor-sharp sense of humour. It also just happens to be a really solid tactics game on…