Disney Dreamlight Valley has revealed its next expansion, Wishblossom Ranch, but rather than taking us to another world of whimsy like The Storybook Vale or A Rift in Time, we’re slowing down and heading to the mountains. We’ll see a brand new realm and three new characters, alongside a “game-changing mechanic” that a mass of…
The WW2 shooter United 1944 struck me as a potentially interesting twist on the genre when I first heard about it back in March. Shooting enemies and capturing control points are mixed with exploration, scavenging, and crafting: You start the game “literally with nothing,” and must dig up resources and plans so you can assemble…
First person whip-based treasure-looting platformer Phantom Abyss has released from early access, bringing its fusion of roguelike and runner to a complete version 1.0 with three separate game modes to play. In Phantom Abyss players are a tomb-delving adventurer challenged to reach the end of incredibly deadly trap-filled dungeons and retrieve precious treasures from the…
Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined with the roguelite progression and drip-feed of supernatural drama that Hades redefined the genre with, topped off with a dash of Risk of Rain’s escalating combat challenge and frantic character-building. It sounds too good to be…
“We were given nothing but paper and toys”. Big, bold yellow text, with a thick blue outline, shaped in a gentle arc. This is the Pokémon logo, which is one of the most recognisable logos in the gaming industry — and media as a whole. It’s bright and simple, eye-catching and easy to read. And…
Is Capcom up to something? Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has sold incredibly well on Nintendo hardware over the years and while there have been no official updates about the mainline series returning to Switch hardware anytime soon, something rather interesting has apparently been discovered in a new Monster Hunter Wilds datamine. In the title’s latest…
The team at Niantic and The Pokemon Company have announced that the October 2020 Pokemon GO Community Day will focus on the beloved Pokemon, Charmander. The event will kick off on 17th October and the exclusive move is Dragon Breath (Charizard only) There’s a bonus of 3x Catch Stardust and 3-hour Incense. For just a…
I’ll cut straight to the point—JLab Audio has made an absolutely massive pair of headphones, which can be used as a Bluetooth speaker. The XL Speaker Headphones product page has multiple photos of bemused models holding them up to their ears, but I doubt that’s entirely practical given the size of what we’re dealing with…
A Switch in Time. Do you ever look at the home screen of your Nintendo Switch and wish there was a bit more colour? A bit more chaos? Or that it was a bit less monochromatic? Well, thanks to German translator PaulFelixKelly, we’ve had a glimpse at some of the ideas and mockups Nintendo had…
While exploring Grounded 2‘s Brookhollow Park, you’ll find various locations, such as caves, that are blocked by cracked rocks. The treasure hunter in all of us naturally wants to know what’s hiding inside, but you can’t break cracked rocks without a very specific tool: explosives. I found one such cave on the western edge of…