Non-violint. After first catching our eye at the 2023 Gamescom Future Games Show, musical platformer Symphonia has finally finished tuning up and is ready to make some noise on Switch today. Developed by Sunny Peak and published by Headup, Symphonia is a non-violent platformer where you play as an adorable little violinist, determined to bring…
Far Far West sounds like videogame premise Mad Libs: You play as a posse of gunslinging cowboy wizards who deploy from a flying train to complete randomized missions with objectives like firing a nuclear missile at a giant spectral necromancer while blasting ranks of skeletons. It’s a shooter imagined through free association, but Far Far…
“I put it off for years…”. When Hideo Kojima created 2015’s Metal Gear Solid V, his final contribution to the world-famous series before he left Konami under something of a cloud, he made the fateful decision to remove Snake’s English language voice actor David Hayter and replace him with Hollywood star Keifer Sutherland. Fans of…
Something or nothing? Well, here’s a weird discovery – Monolith Soft’s Wii U epic Xenoblade Chronicles X has popped up on a Microsoft PC webpage covering “enhanced games for Microsoft Edge game assist”. We’ve taken a look ourselves and can confirm it’s featured. It’s listed alongside PC releases like World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2….
Including some in-development titles. Tequila Works, the developer behind the lovely puzzler RiME, horror cinematic platformer Deadlight, and adorable League of Legends spin-off Song of Nunu, is auctioning off a number of its game rights and IPs. 19 different listings can be found on the auction website Escrapalia, including for the aforementioned IPs (excluding LoL,…
Not long to go now. Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series is back next with the arrival of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave exclusively on the Switch 2. If you’re planning on picking up the game digitally, you’ll need to make sure you’ve got enough space on your system to install it. According to Nintendo’s official eShop listing,…
Agent 64: Spies Never Die, a lovingly-crafted homage to the classic Nintendo 64 James Bond game GoldenEye, made quite an impression when it turned up at the PC Gaming Show in 2022, but all hasn’t gone quite according to plan since then. An early access release expected later that year didn’t come together, and updates…
The FTC and Microsoft are presently in court over the FTC’s desire to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and as seems to happen every time a big gaming company goes to court, there’s been an accidental leak of confidential documents. One of the documents is a 2020 email from Xbox chief Phil Spencer (via…
In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is ‘Slop’ (via The Associated Press). In a blog post, the dictionary and reference book company stresses the fact this word was in fact chosen by its “human editors.” Merriam-Webster defines ‘slop’ in the context of 2025 as…
Hi everyone, my name is Keith Linares and I’m a lead designer at Supermassive Games. Bravo Team is a first person PlayStation VR cover shooter set in a fictional, modern day city in Eastern Europe. When an escort mission goes wrong it’s up to you and a teammate to survive as the city is thrown…