Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
A-meow-zing. All eyes are on Mario Kart World this week as Nintendo’s latest flagship entry hits the Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day. That’s not stopping Microids from showcasing its own karting contender, however, with the publisher releasing a teaser trailer for Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift. Racing onto the Switch on 10th…
With April’s pair of PS Plus games, embark on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure, then have your nerves and driving skills tested in some of the world’s most challenging rallying courses. Let’s take a look. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed adventure epic…
No, literally. April Fool’s Day is now in session and many gaming companies are getting in on the action with their own amusing, harmless pranks. One such company is, of course, The Pokémon Company, which has decided to lean into the sheer absurdity of its Pokémon Sleep app to reveal the ‘Pokémon Sleep Champion Tournament…
So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be! Those have been common sights for users of Garry’s Mod for, oh, let’s see… 20 years or so?…
The Go-Home Club isn’t the name of a boring high-school extra-curricular group. Oh no. They’re a group of kids who’ve realized that their entire reality is actually a digital construct ruled by the scintillating virtual idol μ. Get ready to fight your way through rabid high-schoolers and malicious music producers, because The Caligula Effect is…
It’s all about the sound effect keyring. Assault Suits Valken (or Cybernator, as you might know it) was a jaw-dropping experience back in the ’90s. Here was a game which successfully communicated the feeling of what it must be like to control a huge, hulking robot; instead of dashing around the screen at high speed,…
Update: Now scheduled to release next year. Update #3 : Earlier this year in July, it was announced the release date of “Summer 2023” for R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos had been pushed back to 2024, with the aim to launch the game at the “earliest possible date”. Now in an new broadcast this…
When I look at the trajectory of the Yakuza series over the last decade I feel dizzy. Yakuza 0 released 10 years ago and is arguably the game that catapulted the series from cult awareness to mainstream success in the west. The following year, in 2016, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio released Yakuza 6, which was…
Max Payne and Alan Wake voice actor James McCaffrey has died after a battle with cancer, according to a TMZ report. He was 65. McCaffrey’s death was initially revealed by actor Kevin Dillon, who paid tribute to his “best friend” in an Instagram post. After some confusion about whether it was actually the actor who…