DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse

Hotel Barcelona Interview: Swery and Suda’s Collaboration Is a Horror Action Game with a Time Looping Twist

During the Xbox Digital Broadcast at Tokyo Game Show 2023, White Owls’ iconic Swery (Deadly Premonition, D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die), and Goichi Suda of Grasshopper Manufacture (Lollipop Chainsaw, Shadows of the Damned), announced details of the upcoming Hotel Barcelona, a brainchild of the two creators. The title and genre of this game were already…

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The Gearhead’s Guide to Minecraft

How to build an amazing experience with the right tweaks, mods, and hardware Computer games age in dog years, and Minecraft has been around since 2009. So by most measurements, it should be in the old folks’ home, laid back in a recliner, watching reruns of Jeopardy, and gumming some tapioca. Instead, the game is…

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There’s plenty FromSoftware could learn from this year’s crop of inventive Soulslikes—here are 7 ideas I’d love to see in one of their games

Playing Soulslikes is a pretty standard experience for FromSoftware fans at this point. You spend your first few hours puzzling out the new names for the Estus Flask, Bonfires, Boss Souls, Titanite, and all the well-known mechanics you’ve come to expect from a familiar genre. But perhaps due to the fact that their formula is…

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