Action! In hindsight, it’s easy to see why Tassei Denki’s G’AIM’E Light Gun was so successful when it was crowdfunded earlier this year. Light gun gaming has somewhat fallen by the wayside since the humble CRT TV was consigned to history by modern flat-panel HD displays, so there’s been an understandable hunger for its return…
The recent and accidental Microsoft document and email dump, courtesy of its legal wranglings with the FTC, is turning out to be the mother of all console leaks. Along with game roadmaps extending out as far as 2030, including revenue forecasts for specific game titles, and juicy insights into upcoming refreshes for the Xbox Series…
What a time to be alive: a time where we’re being asked to prove we’re alive and human. We have, of course, been ‘proving’ we’re human for many years now, though it’s always been easy to forget that’s what those CAPTCHA tasks are up to. Now, though, with AI becoming increasingly able to beat Turing…
Kickstart your weekend Wordle with our clue for the February 8 (1330), designed to give you a helping hand without immediately giving the game away. You can also use it further into the puzzle if you like, to nudge any yellow letters into place and sweep away those greys. Not clicking? Not enough rows left…
It’s a platformer with no jump button! For most indie developers, summing up their video game inside a single sentence can be a challenge. How do you accurately reflect the experience you’re trying to create while still keeping things brief and to the point? But for the team behind Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, that doesn’t…
What a surprise! As a part of today’s Xbox Gamescom showcase, Dead Cells dev Evil Empire finally lifted the lid on The Rogue Prince of Persia, revealing that it will be coming to Switch and Switch 2 “later this year”. While every other platform landed the full release of this Prince of Persia roguelike today,…
Will-o-the-wisps are a unique enemy in Oblivion since they’re seemingly immune to all damage and just don’t stop chasing you. Their ceaseless nature is matched only by their lethality, able to steal your health and magicka if they get too close. You’re most likely to run into these glowing wisps in monster dungeons, but you’ll…
“We own Computer Entertainer. And now it belongs to everyone.”. The Video Game History Foundation has announced today that it has acquired the rights to the historic US magazine Computer Entertainer, and is making the entire magazine free for anyone to read or use. Computer Entertainer was a magazine published between 1982-1990, and is significant…
Expect the unexpected, no? “A message from the dev team:” Maybe in years past, such an intro would fill us with excitement and anticipation; after all, a peek behind the development curtain is always a welcome treat. But in 2026, the line is a signifier of bad news. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Until now I couldn’t figure out why Hades, a game with 275,000 positive reviews piled up on Steam, didn’t grab me. Turns out it’s something fairly trivial: I dislike controlling a tiny character in an action game. Absolum takes the “die, retry” format of Hades—its own subgenre of roguelike at this point—and blends it with…