In 2023, our Morgan Park wrote about the phenomenon of Cosmetic Uglification, in which shooters of the modern era are inevitably swallowed by a rancid mire of crossover skins until they’ve lost all semblance of a cohesive visual identity. In the years since, things have only become more dire, culminating in Black Ops 6 reaching…
“They wouldn’t release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name”. Those of you who followed the Japanese launch of Sony’s PlayStation back in 1994 will be aware that Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden Project was a very early release for the console. A two-game collection featuring Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993), it launched at the start of…
Category: Xbox Game Pass September 2, 2025 Coming to Game Pass: Hollow Knight: Silksong, RoadCraft, I Am Your Beast, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass You’ve been asking “when?” and I am so excited to tell you exactly when a certain group of games are coming to Game Pass (looking at…
The winner will feature in our monthly eShop Selects round-up. Video games, huh? There’s just so many of them. Every single month hidden gems slip through our fingers, while other times, we’re drowning in so many special titles that we don’t have time to dig through everything. Regular readers will know that every six months…
(Blaze & Blade) Bustin’ makes me feel good. It’s fair to say that Blaze & Blade: Eternal Quest didn’t exactly set the gaming world alight when it launched back in 1998. The reception to this multiplayer action RPG was muted, and NextGen magazine even went as far as to call the PC version “crap in…
It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed has been stuck in a bit of a rut for a while. While the series’ use of wildly different historical time periods helps add a lot of variety, it’s struggled to marry its many disparate systems in a cohesive way. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla makes this more obvious than ever…
Let’s split. A short while back, I looked at the Hautepad X, Cosmox Gaming’s premium arcade controller that boasts modular components for a highly customisable experience – with an equally high price to boot. For those who might not be on board with such an ambitious product but still want to see why Cosmox has…
It’s now the third best-selling Street Fighter. Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has now sold over 5 million units since its initial release in 2023; a milestone helped considerably by the recent release on the Nintendo Switch 2. This makes it the third best-selling Street Fighter game of all time at the time…
Hi everyone! Just in time for the EVO Championship Series, we’re celebrating the world’s largest and longest-running fighting game tournament with deals on some of our favorite fighting games and movies. Starting right now, pick up titles like Mortal Kombat X, Ultra Street Fighter IV, and Guilty Gear Xrd, as well as films like Foxcatcher,…
Dating sim aficionados (or aspiring dad-datin’-dads), have we got a treat for you — Dream Daddy: Dadrector’s Cut comes to PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, featuring a suite of highly eligible fathers whose affection is yours to pursue. It’s a dad-date-dad world out there! For a full list of new games coming to PlayStation next week,…