A few weeks ago I got to play a demo of Big Walk, the open world co-op puzzle game from House House, developer of Untitled Goose Game. It was a good time: a full hour of exploration and puzzle-solving in a quirky and charming world that left me excited to play a lot more. If…
When a big old tree talks, I listen. He said, “I have a task of great importance,” as soon as I opened my eyes, and who was I to turn him down? “Take this note to the King, it should be a short quest,” he instructed, and although there is no king in the playtest…
Ben Starr even has some recommendations. Square Enix has officially launched its latest sale on the eShop, slashing prices on a boatload of fantastic RPGs. Now, this sale technically kicked off last week, though Square has only now started to go ham on its publicity (including a wonderful ad starring Ben Starr) thanks to it…
Leave it to trademark filings to publicly utter the name of a new videogame before anyone else: The next Kingdom Come will almost surely be called Kingdom Come Salvation. Huzzah. That’s according to an official trademark filing by Warhorse Studios itself with the EUIPO—first spotted by PhraseMaker—issued on July 23. Had the owners of the…
Wave 6 has arrived. Today marks the arrival the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ‘Wave 6’ Booster Course Pass DLC for Nintendo Switch. This new update includes a whole bunch of new cups and courses, and four new racers have been added to the roster including (Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline and Peachette). There are also…
Game reveals, release date confirmations, and new looks at titles coming to PlayStation in the near future: today’s State of Play packed a lot into its runtime. Whether you missed the show, want to rewatch it, or dig down into the individual announcements, this article has you covered. Firstly, you can rewatch the full show…
Your card, your design AMD built its Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card with a removable front plate with the intention of letting customers design their own alternatives. To help do that, AMD has made available the 3D model for the Fury X’s face plate so that owners of the graphics card can design their…
Ys will start being distributed from February 15th. The PC-8801 version of Nihon Falcom’s influential action RPG Ys is heading to Nintendo Switch on February 15th in Japan, as part of D4 Enterprises’s EGGCONSOLE label of classic reissues, with the rerelease also expected to hit Western storefronts shortly after (thanks @gosokkyu for the spot!). Ys…
As a former game journalist, working on Warframe has been an eye-opening experience into the development of a living game. Warframe is in constant motion. This six-year-old games-as-a-service title cycles through constant expansion, re-tooling, balances, re-balances, engine overhauls, complete teardowns, you name it. With Update 26, The Old Blood — our fourth significant update this…
Peak has well and truly broken containment, this little old climbing game from Aggro Crab and Landfall, known for games like A Crab’s Treasure and Content Warning, has risen to success in just six days. With over 10,000 very positive reviews on Steam, an all-time peak of 102,799 via SteamDB, and 1 million copies sold,…