It’s-a bop! In a game full of memorable moments, one of Mario Wonder‘s more out-there sequences has to be the ‘Piranha Plants on Parade’ musical number. This Wonder effect completely took us by surprise on our first playthrough and has certainly stuck in our heads ever since. Fortunately, it looks like we were not alone…
Control is delightfully weird, y’all. The mid-century modern office hallways filled with floating bodies. The Lynchian janitor appearing at random moments to reveal secrets of the universe (or just let me borrow his Walkman). The dangerous items teeming with power sheltered behind glass — including and not limited to a stoplight, a refrigerator, and a…
Including Dreamcast & Neo Geo AES/MVS. PixelHeart, the publisher behind retro games like Gladmort, Shadow Gangs Zero, and Chronicles of the Wolf, has announced it is planning to release a sequel to Visco’s single-screen Neo Geo platformer Bang Bang Busters. The sequel is crowdfunding now on Kickstarter, offering backers the chance to order a digital…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Delta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Mabonigi Magic Academy awaits! If you happen to love visual novels and checking out obscure PS2 titles, then we have some great news to share. Mabino×Style, a 2005 anime-style dating sim from the Japanese developer Kid, has just received a fan translation, making it available to play in English for the very first time (thanks…
TCL has a new 27-inch 4K gaming panel out (via Notebookcheck), the TCL 27R94 QD-MiniLED Monitor, and you might just need a pair of shades to game with it. That’s a teensy exaggeration, of course, but with a peak brightness of 1,600 nits, this is certainly one of the very punchiest gaming panels we’ve yet…
Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda’s greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that “the reality of…
Phasmophobia has rotated through the same handful of seasonal celebrations for years now, but that schedule will see a major shake-up soon. As part of the Twitch Galaxies Showcase, Kinetic Games announced its first-ever collaboration event with another game, Alan Wake 2. Seems fitting enough, Mr. Scratch definitely fits the Demon profile. You won’t have…
Though Bloodborne shares some broad similarities with Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, it translates From Software’s trademark high risk, high reward play style to PS4 in new and interesting ways. Starting with its zippier movement speed, Bloodborne seems bound and determined to strip away anything that might encumber the moment-to-moment flow. Shields are no longer…
Stuffed away in a corner of Ubisoft’s latest high-speed skid off a cliff is a note for employees: “To support the effective implementation and operation of this new model, the Group also intends to return to five days per week on site for all teams.” Employees who have been working remotely in any capacity, in…