I have a weakness for mecha games—a vulnerability so dire that I was recently driven to risk my professional credibility by defending the merits of Gundam Battle Operation 2. As you might imagine, the release of Armored Core 6 made 2023 a very good year for me, but it’s meant I’ve spent the following years…
Today at the Triple-I Initiative, open world survival RPG Enshrouded revealed what’s coming in next month’s update, and it can be summed up in one foreboding phrase: “Rebirth of the Shroud.” That means deadly new monsters and mysterious new locations are lurking in those perilous shrouded regions of the world, along with plenty of new…
Slim Pippins. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots (Proudfeet!), welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get all Middle Earthy, let’s quickly recap what went down last time, eh? Two covers from the NSO newbie Super Ninja Boy went head-to-head in last week’s…
Amid the doom and gloom in the games industry right now—the mass layoffs, the studio closures, the declarations that TikTok is winning the attention war—there are still little studios plugging away at good, niche games and making it work. Mohawk Games, founded in 2013 by ex-Firaxis developers, is one of them. Mohawk is about to…
At GDC 2019, the action RPG Crystar was announced with the catchphrase, “For When I Weep, Then I Am Strong.” But how can weeping make you stronger? Crystar’s Producer/Director Fuyuki Hayashi explains how that’s possible in this game. Crystar will be released on August 27, 2019 for North America and August 30, 2019 for Europe….
2026 is already looking busy. Nintendo’s systems haven’t always had the best third-party support, but the Switch 2 has got off to an incredibly strong start with developers and publishers you might not have even expected to see once upon a time now bringing major IP to this new hardware. Read the full article on…
Strange as it is, Destiny 2‘s massive final update is here, marking the end of an era. But Bungie’s gone out with a bang here, not least because it’s added 26 new catalysts and updated nine old ones. No Exotic weapons have been left behind, and that’s a fitting way to leave things. Below, I’ll…
Category: Xbox Game PassJanuary 16, 2024 Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Palworld, Persona 3 Reload, F1 23, and More Megan Spurr, Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass Be it a big fancy car, a Brotato, a big ole boss, or a turnip (I couldn’t find a way to make that one start with a “B”) we’ve…
Just over a year ago, we launched our first dedicated remote play device, PlayStation Portal remote player, with an aspiration to deliver a console-quality gaming experience on a handheld device. PS Portal was an ambitious product for us, and we have been delighted by the positive response from our fans and to see that our…
“Anyone want help on anything.” That’s the title of the oldest post I could dig up on The Helper’s Warcraft 3 world editor help forum, posted by Neo_HoJo all the way back in July 2002. It’s one of over 100,000 similar threads, collectively containing approximately 859,700 comments. It seems to be the biggest forum on…