Main ship is designed by Toshiaki Takayama. The incredibly talented team at M2 is working on a new shmup with Compile Heart, it has been announced (thanks, Gematsu). The game’s existence was revealed alongside a bunch of other 2025 projects from Compile Heart, including Todokero! Tatakae! Calamity Angels, Beautiful Girls x Book World x 2D…
Peaked at almost 16,000 concurrent players. The first new entry in Genki’s Shutokō Battle / Tokyo Xtreme Racer series has managed to hit almost 16,000 concurrent players in a single day. Currently available in Early Access on Steam, Tokyo Xtreme Racer is, at the time of writing, hovering over the 11,000 concurrent players mark—not bad…
Optional escapades. If you’ve played a handful of video games, chances are you’ve lost yourself in the side content more often than the main game. Sidequests are a procrastinator’s dream. Don’t want to finish the main story? Worried about missing some fantastic rewards or lore dumps? Well, thank goodness there are tons of people across…
I’m reaching between my knees to yank at the column-mounted gear lever of a tiny, cramped car that owners were so desperate to leave behind, they abandoned them in the streets of Prague en masse. How did I get here? The short answer is Jalopy. The idiosyncratic 2018 simulator, in which you drive and maintain…
“Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something”. Stardew Valley is perhaps one of the best-supported indie games of all-time with Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone now working on the title for over 12 years. While there have been questions raised about the farming and lifestyle sim’s future now that the creator’s attention has (mostly)…
Here’s some videogame news you don’t see every day. The Royal Shakespeare Company, known mainly for its contemporary adaptations of the Bard’s plays, has announced a video game adaptation of MacBeth. Titled Lili, the game is a modern “screen-life thriller” in which players experience Shakespeare’s bloodiest story through Lady MacBeth’s personal devices. According to a…
Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the “difficult decision” to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste. In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, “We are opening the year with…
Getting better all the time. The Taito Milestones series has already witnessed two collections (the ‘3’ at the end of the Taito Milestones 3 is a bit of a giveaway), but the odd thing with this series is that the quality has arguably improved with each offering, rather than diminishing as the best games are…
I thought I was above getting excited over brand crossovers in multiplayer shooters, so it is to my great shame I admit my heart rate spiked when Activision revealed the Terminator is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Look, everybody has a weakness, and there hasn’t been a good Terminator film in over…
As someone who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its standard difficulty, I’m constantly amazed by the streaming community’s ability to wrestle FromSoftware’s RPG to the ground with a reality-defying number of limbs tied behind its back. Whether that’s MissMikkaa beating the game all the way through to NG+7 with a level 1 character, or…