One look at Dragon’s Crown or Odin Sphere and it’s obvious that the defining characteristic behind Vanillaware’s games is the painterly art style, beautiful backgrounds, and characters so realistically animated that they feel like they’re breathing on screen. Vanillaware’s upcoming sci-fi epic, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, is no different! So, how does Vanillaware do it?…
The best Great Sword build in Monster Hunter Wilds will see you dishing out the most damage in the game. These beefy blades have always been Monster Hunter’s heavy hitters, but their high damage potential is usually offset by their sluggishness, requiring a long wind-up to unleash their most potent attacks. Things are looking a…
If corporate consolidation of one of the biggest entities in the video game industry by private equity, a Saudi Arabian investment fund, and a major investment firm doesn’t signal a worrying future for EA, leveraging AI to further cut costs will do the trick. The $55 billion required to buy out EA includes $20 billion…
Choose your fighter(s)! Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches on 6th November, and Nintendo and Koei Tecmo have been busy drip-feeding thirsty hack-and-slash fans tidbits of information about the follow-up to 2020’s excellent Age of Calamity. We’ve put together the following guide to all playable characters in Age of Imprisonment (that we know about thus…
“You wanted more Shiny codes”. The recent Shiny Koraidon and Miraidon distribution for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet got quite a lot of attention when it kicked off in select locations earlier this week. Unfortunately, many trainers in the US weren’t able to get their hands on a code in-store. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Launching later this year. We must admit, when Atari announced Adventure of Samsara over the weekend, it took us a good couple of minutes to realise it was officially linked to the classic 2600 game Adventure. Watching the trailer, the overall look and feel of the game didn’t really form any connections in our mind,…
SEGA launched Sonic’s new campaign this week. Alongside Sonic’s new campaign launch this week, it seems his upcoming racing game Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has now been officially rated. This rating by Sega popped up in Australia earlier this month. According to the Australian Classification Board, it will be ‘PG’ for ‘Parental Guidance’ and contains “in-game…
I know we usually keep these posts to one per month, but we figured some folks might want to know what PlayStation Store’s top sellers for the whole year looked like. So, behold! PS4 Games 1 Destiny 2 Grand Theft Auto V 3 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 4 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition 5 The…
Avowed, which I’ve temporarily put down while I grind for drip in Monster Hunter Wilds, is slowly-but-surely summoning me back to the Living Lands with some incremental improvements. It’s nice to see that Obsidian’s keen to make what’s already a dang solid action RPG into the best version of its focused self—like with that 60+…
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