Sometimes, video game music transcends its original purpose as a soundtrack. A quick glance at the numbers on any music streaming service is testament that certain scores haunt players long after they have finished a game. In my case, Nier achieved the opposite. I was enthralled by its soundtrack before I’d even played the game….
Do you remember that scene in Blade Runner 2049 where a giant, holographic Ana De Armas tells Ryan Gosling he looks lonely? Well, I certainly do. The team behind this head-turning Kickstarter project may do as well, taking the dream of a giant, holographic lady and making her pocket-sized—not to mention anime-themed, of course. The…
Every weapon in Cyberpunk 2077 has a special animation that plays the first time you pull it out. V will twirl a pistol on their finger, spin the cylinder on a revolver, break open a shotgun to check for shells, or something even more elaborate for Night City’s iconic weapons. But after you’ve admired those…
The latest issue of Japanese Nintendo magazine Nintendo Dream is now in subscribers hands. Each and every month they quiz their vast reader base to find out which upcoming titles they are looking forward to the most. This month’s most wanted Nintendo game, now that Pokemon Sword & Shield is out, is Animal Crossing: New…
So it begins… Nintendo has launched its much-anticipated Black Friday Switch eShop sale in Europe, knocking up to 90% off the prices of a bunch of awesome games. There are more titles on the way in the coming days, so be sure to keep an eye on Nintendo’s official website for the full list, but…
Otherwise known as ‘Joyful Road’. The SNK top-down arcade driving game Munch Mobile (otherwise known as Joyful Road) will be released digitally on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox One Series X|S tomorrow (October 16th), the Arcade Archives creator Hamster Co. Ltd has announced. First released in arcades back in 1983, the game saw players…
The clerks who work on the side of Mount Zugspitze enjoy free dental care. But it’s less a perk and more an apology, for what the job will do to your teeth. Clerking is, somewhat unexpectedly, an outdoor role—and up here, the air is thin. You’re best advised to save your breath, walking slowly and…
The Metro series has its roots in war-scarred post-apocalyptia, as such, it grapples with a lot of themes: The indescribable cost of nuclear war, the grim, complicated grey at the heart of humanity, and the cost of human life in a world no longer built to support it. Which, to those developers who founded the…
If there’s one thing cozy games love to do, it’s shifting a release date by a couple days or even a month, only a week before launch. I’ve seen more than one try to pull that over on me in March so far. They probably don’t love it, really, but they sure do it a…