Category: ID@Xbox June 2, 2025 Face the Horrors of the Ocean in Submersed 2: The Hive, on Xbox Today Jose Antonio Muñoz – CEO and Game designer, Main Loop Videogames Summary Action, Mystery and Horror. Dive into the unknown. Available today. Locate survivors in the underwater station while facing terrors lurking in the dark waters….
You’ll remember, of course, the drift events in classic Need for Speed. During that noughties era when the games were soundtracked by crunk songs, told quasi-Fast and Furious tales, and reached Christmas number one in the charts with the certainty of an X Factor winner, NFS introduced drifting as a sort of side-show. There was…
Budget Cuts is an action-adventure stealth game full of sneaking, stabbing, and robots(!) which was built from the ground up for virtual reality. In a few weeks we are launching Budget Cuts on PS VR and we couldn’t be more excited to see how you take on the evil efficiency robots of TransCorp! We’ve had…
I do a lot of prattling on about how videogame music is a core component of design. Its exclusion is like baking a cake without any sugar or sweetener. Sure, you can still eat it, but it’s not going to taste anywhere near as good without that syrupy twang. Something I don’t prattle too much…
Hello all you ronin out there! We here at Spike Chunsoft are happy to announce that Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story, is set to release February 20! Way of the Samurai is a franchise built on Japanese-inspired hack-and-slash action set in a quirky, quasi-historically accurate Meiji-era Japan. The series began in 2002…
Finding and fighting Monster Hunter Wilds’ unnatural monsters are, naturally, the game’s core appeal. But while you’re breaking the bones and carving the hides of these mythical beings, have you ever wondered: would a Rathlos actually move like that? Does Anjanath’s crazy bone structure actually have some basis in reality? Our latest series, Reality Check,…
See Luigi in Super Mario 64 for the first time! Various pieces of evidence have appeared over the years to confirm that Super Mario 64 was originally going to include Luigi as a playable character. In several interviews, including a 1996 interview translated by shmuplations, Miyamoto went on the record as saying that the character…
The good, the good, and the uhhh… Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Star Fox 64, and gosh, it was quite a close match. Both designs are pretty great in our eyes, but ultimately Japan won the day with 54% of the vote, while the…
One of the more common complaints you’re likely to hear about Crimson Desert are to do with its controls, which some folks just don’t care for. Folks like, for instance, PC Gamer’s Rory Norris, who called the game’s control scheme “bafflingly convoluted.” Or Morgan Park, who said the game’s “true boss battle is wrangling its…
Sequel launches this month. A new trailer for Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter has been revealed ahead of the game’s upcoming launch on 28th January 2025. Boasting the voiceover talents of Doug Cockle (The Witcher III), the new trailer showcases a boatload of gameplay highlighting the glorious violence and stunning 2D visuals. As…