Wahoo! One minute, you’re revelling in the celebrations of MAR10 Day, the next, it’s the weekend. Where does the time go? While not quite as big as last year’s affair, MAR10 Day 2025 brought us some eShop savings, a new Alarmo theme, and a first look at a sweet 18+ Mario Kart LEGO set. Elsewhere,…
February’s loaded with not two, not three, but potentially up to five free PS Plus games! Bioshock: The Collection contains three legendary first-person adventures, The Sims 4 gives you creative control over reality itself, Firewall Zero Hour offers engaging, online multiplayer* for PS VR owners**. More on February’s free games: Bioshock: The Collection Play Video…
Ta ra, turn-based. We’ve grown used to the Disgaea series’ tried-and-tested tactical gameplay on Nintendo consoles over the last ~20 years, but the next game promises something a little different. In Disgaea Mayhem, it’s all about the action. NIS America has today announced that this action RPG spin-off (which launched in Japan as ‘Kyouran Makaism‘…
Salutations, budding crocksmiths, and welcome to the world of Kiln! A game that we like to refer to as a ‘pottery power-fantasy.’ It celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things…and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens! In Kiln you’ll join a team of colorful spirits, and then…
PAX West returns to Seattle September 1! If you’re making the trip, I’ve got good news — PlayStation is bringing a small mountain of playable VR and PS4 games! You’ll find them in booths 100, 103, 109, 203, and 209. On the PS VR side, standouts will include cover-based shooter Bravo Team from Supermassive Games;…
The bomb. One of the most pleasant surprises of this month’s Partner Direct was the reveal and shadow drop of the Super Bomberman Collection, a compilation of some of the eponymous hero’s earliest games with some extra goodies thrown in. Though it’s ultimately little more than the sum of its parts, Super Bomberman Collection does…
Influencer Kelley Heyer’s lawsuit against Roblox Corporation has been “amicably resolved”, per court papers filed in the US this week. The two sides have agreed to dismiss the case, which centred around, deep breath please, an in-game emote based on the choreographer’s viral dance that is performed to Charli XCX’s song Apple. The Apple dance,…
SimCity 4 is one of the most pleasant games I own—I can experience all the splendor of a modern metropolis with a fraction of the nuance, and for the first time in my life, feel what it’s like to drive on American roads that don’t piss me off. Up-and-coming “hyperrealistic” transit sim Subway Builder offers…
The Battleborn Winter Update is here, and boy is it massive! Players will experience brand new training modes, pick/ban draft mode, a user interface overhaul, player Command Rank cap increases, and of course, PS4 Pro support! With so many additions, improvements, and adjustments, no part of Battleborn was left untouched by this update. In the…
Asus has unveiled its long anticipated ROG NUC at CES 2024. After Intel handed over the reins of its NUC business to Asus, there was always the hope that a company with the resources of Asus would develop a ROG themed NUC, and here we are. Though far from the first NUC (Next Unit of…