Category: Games May 21, 2025 Mastering Blades of Fire’s Combat System Antonela Pounder, Director of Digital Content and Engagement, 505 Games While MercurySteam’s latest action-adventure may look like a hack-and-slash on the surface, it’s anything but that! Blades of Fire has an incredibly unique combat system, one that is both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Today,…
In November, just three months after it launched into early access, Starlight Re:Volver halted updates. Despite a demo that did well during Steam Next Fest, the anime action RPG underperformed at launch. Pahdo Labs laid off half its team, halted updates, and said it was going “back to the drawing board”, with a follow-up announcement…
World of Warcraft is getting its first official, proper pride event (via WoWhead)—and the neatest part? It’s based on a community-run event that’s been raising money for LGBT charities for years. The Running of the Trolls is an event that’s been active on the US Feathermoon server for 12 years, helmed by the larger group…
AMD gamers looking to build a new system might want to start with the latest release from Asus, the 970 Pro Gaming/Aura ATX motherboard. It’s the first board based on the new AMD 970+SB950 chipset and not only supports two-way, quad-GPU CrossFireX configurations, but two-way, quad-GPU Nvidia SLI setups as well. The board even sports…
Although a lesser-known brand, Soundpeats earbuds seem to be pretty well-liked for the price judging by various comments and reviews online. And for CES 2026, it’s just announced the Aura Nebula earbuds, which look like they might offer a good balance between audiophile quality and gamer-oriented features and pricing. The earbuds feature a “breakthrough hybrid…
“Available while supplies last”. If you’re considering the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle, you might need to make a decision sooner rather than later. While this new offering might seem like it’s just a standard offering, it seems it will actually be a “limited time” deal. Yes, according to Nintendo deal will…
If you’re in the business of creating large language models you might already think Nvidia’s pricing for its H100 super-duper data center GPU, which sells for upwards of $30,000 a pop, is criminally expensive. Now Nvidia’s broader cloud computing operations in France are under actual legal investigation. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia’s French…
The game would have been inspired by Star Wars, Akira Kurosawa films, and Lone Wolf and Cub. Before working on Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 for SNK’s Neo Geo platform, the former Nazca & SNK artist Akio Oyabu envisioned making a “sci-fi comedy game” based on the Samurai Shodown series. If you’re a diehard fan of…
Last month Bloober Team, the horror studio responsible for the Silent Hill 2 Remake and The Medium, posted a teaser for an unannounced project. The teaser featured an illustration of a rose, leading some brilliant internet sleuths to deduce that it must surely point to a remake of the cult 2006 survival horror Rule of…
Creating the music and sound effects for Battlezone was both an honor and a treat for our Audio Lead Graham Gatheral. The 1980s was a formative time for him, and he and the audio team are still very much into video games, music, and film from that era, such as Blade Runner, Tron, and —…