Here’s a truth no one but I am willing to admit: Mafia 3 was good, actually. Please disregard PC Gamer’s 54% Mafia 3 review. I don’t know what happened there. Possibly Andy Kelly put the wrong game disc in by mistake. I understand they were still using game discs in 2016, alongside gramophones, the telegram,…
Secret Society of No Gracewares. In one of the week’s craziest, but most fascinating stories, it has surfaced that a cabal of players of the notorious point-and-click adventure Cookie’s Bustle attended a secret anniversary party, held 25 years after the bizarre title’s release. Developed by Rodik and appearing on the Japanese PC market at the…
Gawrsh! Another week is over – thank goodness. It’s been a bit of a quiet one again, despite the beginning of what will no doubt be one of the busiest release months in Nintendo’s history. Rumours picked up once again about Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire coming to the Switch, Nintendo announced a new Switch 2…
Transmorphers. Hamster Corporation has offered a sneak peek at one of the titles heading to its Arcade Archives in November. As reported by Japanese outlet Famitsu, Taito’s horizontally scrolling shmup Exzisus will launch November 5 on PlayStation, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch platforms. Released in 1987, amid a tidal wave of pew-pew arcade blasters, the…
Is that…? Epic’s free-to-play battle royale Fortnite appears to be expanding on its collab with the Sonic the Hedgehog series. As part of the blue blur’s ongoing 35th anniversary celebrations this week, Sega shared a new teaser trailer for Fortnite x Sonic during its Club Chaos livestream. In it, you can see what looks to…
Reina gets ready for the next battle. SNK has already expanded the roster in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves with characters like Ken and Chun-Li from Street Fighter, and next up is a challenger from the Tekken series. It’s Reina, who made her debut in the latest entry Tekken 8, and she’s arriving on…
Including a look at frame gen toggle. Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen arrived on the Switch 2 this week, and if you’re curious to see how it compares to its PS5 counterpart, YouTube channel ElAnalistaDeBits has now released a side-by-side graphics comparison. Firstly, players can apparently expect an upscaled resolution of 1080p in handheld and…
The 2007 season finale of TV phenom Lost ended with an all-timer twist: What had seemed like the show’s routine flashback storyline, filling in the events that preceded its characters ending up in island purgatory, was actually a flash forward. Protagonists Jack and Kate were somehow safe in Los Angeles after three seasons of being…
Return to the track this November. Sega has officially revealed “Year Two” of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will get underway on 3rd November 2026. As part of this, players can expect “major day one updates”, more free characters and Season Pass Two. Here’s the rundown of what’s on the way, and you can see the full…
I introduced Overcooked to two of my friends one day back in 2016. One day being the key phrase here. The Overcooked games are on our list of the best co-op games, but the series has a reputation for ruining relationships—in China it’s apparently known as “The Divorce Kitchen”. I don’t recall actually fighting with…