“Who’s a good ape? You are.”. Like many first-party Nintendo games, Donkey Kong Bananza is absolutely stuffed with fun little details and easter eggs. Some are pretty obvious, like the short challenge level that’s basically a recreation of Donkey Kong Country, but others take a little more time and patience to notice. For example, you…
Cyborg espionage game Core Decay has a new trailer out showcasing different approaches to the conundrum of being locked inside one of its sprawling, post-societal-collapse facilities. Our semi-cyber protagonist is faced with escaping a facility, which means traversing a living area to the director’s office to flip a switch. The gameplay trailer showcases violent, social,…
Last week I drove down to a fancy studio lot in Los Angeles to play Fortnite. “Play Fortnite” isn’t a very descriptive phrase these days, as the battle royale has long since evolved into a platform with numerous games under the official Epic banner, plus thousands more community-made modes. What I was there to see…
Mafia: The Old Country is quickly approaching, and it seems like we’re in for a summertime trip to Sicily with a deadly twist. The Mafia series is no stranger to exploring period settings, covering the US Prohibition era of the 1930s, post-WW2 in the ’40s and ’50s and the Vietnam war era of the late…
Grab your best purple suit, folks, because the 3rd Street Saints are back in business and ready to embark upon a dangerous mission through fire, brimstone, and a legion of tormented souls. Yes, this is really happening. Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and Saints Row: Gat out of Hell are on the way to PlayStation. For…
The closest I ever came to ascending to godhood was on Christmas day in 2003. I was nine and a half years old, and I had been given a weapon. Beyblade was at the height of its popularity in my hometown, and I’d asked my parents for an imported Driger V2 from a website selling…
Before a full release in September. Craving something in the vein of Donkey Kong Country after beating Nintendo’s latest NSO DK Challenge? Well, Microids’ Marsupilami 2 – Salsa Palombia might just scratch that itch. Based on the Belgian comic book by André Franquin and developed by Ocellus Services, this sequel to the 2021 game is…
At a Glance (+) Maxwell: Affordable; 1080p gaming ready; energy efficient; quiet. (-) Farewell: Still needs 6-pin power; not much cheaper than GTX 960. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 950: Maxwell 2.0 on the Cheap If there’s one thing we love more than fast GPUs, it’s affordable and fast GPUs. The best-selling graphics cards of all time…
First spotted by CharlieIntel, two videos supposedly from a cancelled Xbox 360-era Call of Duty game called “Future Warfare” or “NX1” internally have been shared on Twitter. Their provenance has seemingly been confirmed by a former senior Neversoft developer who worked on the project. The first video was shared by an account with the handle…