So you’re looking at the art and title of our game and wondering what on earth is this, right? Well, in a nutshell, Bang-On Balls: Chronicles is a zaney, destructible open-world sandbox adventure combining combat, platforming, character customization, and collect-a-thon scavenger hunting into a solo or co-op experience. Phew! That’s a lot. And we know…
The War Within arrives this year—promising to finally address Battle for Azeroth’s biggest dangling plot thread: the giant bloody sword that’s sticking out of the planet. We know this because of some subtle hints from the expansion’s cinematic trailer, like when the camera pans to the giant bloody sword. The one that’s sticking out of…
Gotta trade ’em all. Welcome, Trainers! It’s time to embark on another journey into the wonderful world of Box Art Brawl. Before we head out, however, let’s visit the lab and recap what happened last week. It was the DS’ River King: Mystic Valley that we put under the microscope and, surprising nobody, the awful…
Coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan on February 29th. Pixel Co. Ltd, the Japanese game developer, retro store, and event company, has just released a new Famicom-inspired vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up over on Steam (as spotted by @gosokkyu) The game, which is called Xelan Force, was first conceived as a special project to commemorate the…
Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) Tyler just wants RAM to be a normal price again, please. “They think that we are mentally ill,” says a ChatGPT user in one of many Reddit threads lamenting OpenAI’s decision to retire its GPT-4o chatbot. The replacement model, GPT-5.2, is “abusive,” says another. They want their old…
Nvidia is facing the biggest single-day market value loss in history, according to a report by Forbes, as the release of an open-source AI model called R1 by China-based DeepSeek has cut more than $600 billion from its valuation, knocking it off its perch as the world’s most valuable company. Nvidia’s share price dropped by…
I’m reminded of the time I met Gabe Newell in Las Vegas. Now, if I never type another word the story would seem far cooler than it is. Sadly it was just another CES trip, way back in the January of 2014; a simpler time where people thought the future might be a positive place….
Sega’s epic JRPG is already semi-playable on Windows PCs. When you ask RPG fans what game they’d love to see come to modern-day platforms, many of them are going to give Panzer Dragoon Saga as their reply. Released exclusively on the Sega Saturn back in 1998, this sprawling epic is considered one of the best…
Dapophet Pods are a handy type of fruit that can be used to heal yourself to full health if you get into a scrape in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. You can only carry a very limited amount to start off with, though you can increase this by investing skill points into the Survivor tree later…