Jupiter has announced Picross S4 for the Nintendo Switch. It will be $9.99/£8.99/€9.99/1,000 yen/HK$79, and it will release on the Nintendo Switch eShop worldwide on April 23rd. According to Jupiter, this game will have “the highest number of puzzles in the Picross S series with a total of 485 in all! Included with bonus content,…
Microtransactions in fully-priced games are (unfortunately) here to stay for as long as they keep working—that’s a bitter pill I’ve swallowed at this point, though every now and then something comes along to make it sting all over again. As is the case with Diablo 4’s recent “Dark Pathways” pack, which wants you to shell…
I love modders. Instead of just wishing a game had a new feature, they make their wishes a reality. Modder LM6 decided it’d be nice if Skyrim NPCs who were shopping or studying had some new dynamic “I’m thinking” animations. Now they do. (Image credit: Bethesda / LM6 on Nexus Mods)
The people (and Geoff Keighley) have spoken: Clair Obscur is a certified zinger, and now the French head of state himself is cheering on Sandfall Interactive. The Final Fantasy-inspired RPG just guzzled an astonishing nine awards at The Game Awards, including Game of the Year, triggering a response from French President Emmanuel Macron himself and…
Delve into a psychological survival horror, play as the GOAT, and puzzle out worlds within worlds with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for October. Alan Wake 2, Goat Simulator 3, Cocoon will be available to PlayStation Plus members from Tuesday October 7 until Monday November 3. Also starting October 7 Midnight Murder Club will…
Hello hunters! This is Yuya Tokuda, director of Monster Hunter: World. As I write, we have just wrapped up the third beta test of the game on PlayStation 4, where we added the terrifying Nergigante. Did you get a chance to take him on? How did you fare? He’s a pretty tough cookie, but I’ve…
Rare’s Everwild, an original game that had apparently been in development for around a decade, has been cancelled. The news was broken by VGC, before being corroborated by IGN sources. Team members were told at the same time as Rare’s parent company Microsoft announced another absolutely enormous wave of layoffs: despite it being in rude…
You better boo-lieve it. If you’re after something spooky to play in the run up to Halloween this year, then you might want to consider An English Haunting from developer Postmodern Adventures. Available via the Switch eShop now, this is a classic point-and-click adventure with retro-inspired visuals and a dark, spooky atmosphere. It kinda reminds…
For the last four years, the hottest mapping event in the retro FPS scene has been the Quake Brutalist Jam. Here, mapmakers enthralled by id Software’s 1996 shooter have gathered to honour architecture’s moodiest style, constructing levels designed to evoke its austere, concrete minimalism. The first Brutalist Jam occurred in 2022, spawning 35 maps that…
Fighting the Ravenous Bear is an early combat challenge in Blood of Dawnwalker‘s prologue, but mainly because you don’t have many skills or decent equipment yet, which turns the fight into a slog. After you do defeat it, you’ll also have to track down a treasure as part of the Into the Den quest. I’ll…