Survival horror dungeon crawler Labyrinth of the Demon King is neck-and-neck with Avowed and Oblivion Remastered as my personal game of the year so far, which I absolutely did not expect when I loaded it up on my Steam Deck before a flight (I ended up playing it all five hours). But even more surprising…
Both store pages are now live ahead of pre-orders starting. Following last week’s tease on social media, which promised an announcement for Monday, October 27th, Retroid has unveiled not one, but two brand new handhelds, including the Retroid Pocket G2 and the Retroid Pocket 6. The announcement was made via a one-minute-long video on Retroid’s…
The Genshin Impact community is a little, uh, on fire at the moment. That’s due to SAG-AFTRA, an American union of actors across entertainment media (including, naturally, videogames), and its ongoing strike. Said strike has been proceeding apace for over eight months now, with voice actors still embroiled in fights over deals for protection against…
BritneysPAIRS has done it again! The release of CoinOPS Deluxe “Inspire” (aka Micro) has taken the retro gaming community by storm, setting a new benchmark for quality and craftsmanship in loaded front ends. This stunning release is more than just a gaming platform—it’s an experience, meticulously designed to immerse you in a world where art…
Aw, shoot. Leave it up to Kazutaka Kodaka to come up with one of the weirdest stories in gaming, huh? Following on from the outrageously ambitious The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy, the creator has now joined forces with developer Neilo on the new visual novel Shuten Order. I say ‘visual novel’, and that’s…
Three female Twitch streamers midway through a weeklong marathon stream were followed, harassed and then threatened by a man calling himself “Russell” live from Santa Monica’s Pacific Park. Content creators Cinna, Valkyrae and Emiru had just listened to the man sing when he asked for Emiru’s phone number. After she refused, and refused to enter…
World of Warcraft’s patch 11.1, which is currently available on the public test realm and will shortly be rolled-out to all players, looks like it’s fixed one of the game’s most enduring issues: swirlies. These are ground markers that telegraph incoming damage to players, such as an AoE boss attack, and basically they’ve always been…
From Dreams in February to the launch of the PlayStation 5 console in November, there was a lot of gaming to celebrate in 2020. To commemorate our collective journey, we’re pleased to bring back our year end wrap-up report, so you can reflect upon your many 2020 gameplay accomplishments. Through March 2, 2021, PS4 players*…
SWAT sim Ready or Not’s recent Steam reviews cratered to Mostly Negative recently, in the wake of changes to the game’s content to meet console standards that were—if not widely, then vocally—perceived to be censorship by a number of fans. What kind of changes? Well, mostly stuff regarding nudity and violence: among other things, some…
‘Air Man ga Taosenai’ was originally released in 2007. McDonald’s Japan is teasing a new video game-related collaboration coming to its stores, and this time it seems to be based on Capcom’s Mega Man series (h/t: Rockman Corner). Last year, as you may remember, Capcom teamed up with McDonald’s Japan on a collaboration that saw…