Hey everyone, Elijah from Crytek, here. I’m lucky enough to be working as Executive Producer on Robinson: The Journey, and wanted to share a little more info on the project with you. In Robinson, you assume the role of a young boy who has crash-landed on a mysterious planet, and must become a pioneer of…
Category: Games November 21, 2025 Nightdive Explains How Outlaws Set the Standard for Western Games Morgan Shaver, Communications Manager at Nightdive Studios In the ’90s, over a decade before the release of epic Western adventures like Red Dead Redemption, LucasArts introduced the world to Outlaws. Originally released in 1997, Outlaws was a truly groundbreaking entry…
Five years ago, Strixhaven: School of Mages showed us Magic: The Gathering’s original take on the wizard school genre, which covers everything from Discworld’s Unseen University to A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin—though obviously Harry Potter is the elephant in the room. Back then, Wizards of the Coast hadn’t gone all-in on the…
Factory-sealed retail pack is part of Ewbank’s retro gaming auctions. UK auction house Ewbank’s has a massive haul of Nintendo-related items on its site as part of its growing retro game sales drive. Nintendo items going up for auction aren’t anything new, of course, but this lot includes some rather unusual and interesting items—with the…
Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel preeminently focused on the ripping and tearing. At today’s Xbox Developer Direct, id Software brought us our lengthiest look at The Dark Ages to date, with an emphasis on what matters most to every Doom Slayer: How it’ll feel to shoot, smash, and otherwise pulp the demonic hordes…
Released in 1981, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first grid-based first-person RPG—what we nowadays call blobbers—and it proved enormously influential. Its art was rudimentary: the monochrome dungeon halls were a series of white lines carefully placed to simulate the feeling of moving through a three-dimensional environment. Leaving the ruggedness of its…
Your bugs are going to die. I feel it’s important to let you know that from the start. Bugaboo Pocket is a Tamagotchi-like game about cultivating bug species to revitalize the environment after your evil corpo bosses destroyed it, and inevitably you’re going to say goodbye to them all, give them a nice burial and…
One of the big growing pains of the third generation of video games was the longtime hi-score mechanic, or more specifically, its slow move to irrelevance. As NES games started to trend toward level variety, as opposed to gradually increasing difficulty in infinite repetition, simply finishing the game at all bAll Postsecame the accomplishment…
Includes ‘El Viento’, ‘Earnest Evans’, and ‘Anett Futatabi’. Edia has revealed that it will be launching the Telenet Revive project, the Earnest Evans Collection, this December in Japan, across Nintendo Switch, PS5, and PS4 (thanks Gematsu!). This collection will bring together the three titles that make up Wolf Team’s “Anett and Earnest” trilogy, including the…
World of Warcraft is a game where you fight dragons, elementals, demons, that sort of stuff. But the rival I have contended with the most in 18 years of play—the majority of my life, mind you—is the loot table. Player mounts and legendary weapons from old raids, hyper-rare drops that offer no benefit aside from…