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An Amazing Steam Sale, A Major Pokémon Go Development, And More Of The Week's Top News
15.3.2025
This week saw Pokémon Go become the property of the Saudi government as Scopely, the mobile game maker owned by Savvy Games Group which itself was founded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, acquired POGO developer Niantic for the tidy sum of $3.5 billion. In other news, Steam has launched...
Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
11.3.2025
Occasionally the stars align and a once-in-a-generation group of creatives come together to make something spectacular and ahead of its time. That’s how Chrono Trigger was made, an RPG for the SNES that came out 30 years ago this week and still blows me away. Playing it was a formative gaming...
Dragon Ball Daima Is Everything The Franchise Needed To Silence The Haters
24.1.2025
Change is hard to accept when you can’t reconcile longstanding feelings with current reality. Trust me, I was just like most detractors when word first came out in October 2023 of Dragon Ball Daima’s impending release. It was a tough pill to swallow that, after waiting five and a half years since...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's First DLC Reveals Big Upgrades For Gohan And Piccolo
17.1.2025
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero felt a bit content-lite when it launched last year. Its first DLC pack will remedy some of that. Bandai Namco revealed that 11 new playable characters will join the arena fighter later this month, including all forms of Gohan and Piccolo from the most recent Dragon Ball...
Power Up With These 11 Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Mods
15.11.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is full of attention to detail and love for the 40-year-old franchise. Of course, that doesn’t mean it has every reference or detail that fans are looking for. Those playing the PC version have already taken the responsibility of fixing that into their own hands. Since...
Breakthrough Gaming: How To Get Into The Dragon Quest Games
15.11.2024
There are few series that have revolutionized video games quite like Dragon Quest. Debuting all the way back in 1986, the first Dragon Quest made its mark by distilling the complex mechanics of early RPGs such as Wizardry and Ultima into a form that even casual gamers could enjoy. Featuring...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's First Update Is Live, Bringing Bean Daddies Everywhere To Their Knees
24.10.2024
The first patch for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is out and it has demolished Yajirobe players even more ruthlessly than that Saibaman wasted Yamcha. There is no coming back from this nerf, bean daddies. But at least the game runs better now due to some menu improvements and other bug fixes, even...
Jiren's Endings In Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Are Confusing Everyone
24.10.2024
Episode Battle, the story mode of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, briskly glides through various sagas of the franchise. While it’s fun to revisit these iconic fights against giant space apes and gods, all from different character viewpoints, it’s more exciting to check out the unique alternate...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, As Told By Steam Reviews
23.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has been out for a few weeks now and it seems to be going over well with fans, who’ve been waiting a very long time for a new fighting game based on the hugely popular anime. The recently released fighter is the first installment in the long-dormant Budokai Tenkaichi...
I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
20.10.2024
I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wasn’t going to continue watching because...
Getting To Grips With Dragon Ball: Sparkling Zero's Wish-Granting Dragons
15.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero perfectly encapsulates what people love about the series: the giant energy beams, passionate screaming, and even the comedy is intact, with characters like Yajirobe creating an online meta with appropriate antics. And of course there are the eponymous mystical Dragon...
Dragon Ball Z Voice Famous For 'Find Out Next Time' Has Died
7.10.2024
Gilbert Auchinleck, better known as Doc Harris, the man whose narration on the English version of Dragon Ball Z has reached iconic meme status over the decades, has died at age 76. News of his passing was first posted by Broadcast Dialogue, which reported Harris died on Saturday, October...
Dragon Quest III Designer Said He Doesn't Understand One Of The Remake's Changes, Then Things Got Weird
4.10.2024
Writer and game designer Yuji Horii is largely considered the father of Dragon Quest, the long-time Final Fantasy rival up until Square Soft and Enix merged in 2003. So when he says something about the franchise, fans take note. And that’s what happened recently when he weighed in on a very small...
10 Wonderful RPGs To Pick Up During Steam’s Turn-Based Sale
1.10.2024
In Steam’s unrelenting and ever-more specific barrage of sales, this week Valve’s store is focusing on turn-based RPGs, everyone’s favorite waiting games. The likes of Final Fantasy are joined by plenty of delightful games both big and small, charming and horrifying, and above all else, rewarding...
Dragon Ball :Sparking Zero Previews Suggest That We Are So Back, Y’all
19.9.2024
The passing of legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama earlier this year forced me to weigh the importance of his work in my life. After all, my older brother had all but forced Saturday morning cartoons on me, including anime like Dragon Ball and its successors, Z and GT. But it goes beyond even...
The Latest Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Trailer Has Shocked Fans In The Best Way
12.9.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which remains Budokai Tenkaichi 4 in the hearts and minds of many diehard fans, continues to reveal more characters in its massive starting roster ahead of the fighting game’s October 11 launch. The latest batch is particularly noteworthy, however, offering something...
Black Myth: Wukong: The Kotaku Review
22.8.2024
There’s a moment in Black Myth: Wukong that would be the perfect visual metaphor for the game’s hopeful, proud ascension as China’s big breakthrough into the Western AAA pantheon. Unfortunately, that moment is restricted, and we can’t talk about that.Read more
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Hands-On: Shaping Up To Be The Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Sequel Fans Deserve
13.6.2024
Fans have been waiting 17 years for a sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, a PS2 and Wii-era arena fighter that celebrated the beloved anime with a story mode that retold all of its biggest moments, a massive roster full of iconic characters and deep cuts alike, and spectacle-fueled...
Dragon Ball Creator Praises Sand Land Game From Beyond The Grave
25.4.2024
Legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama, character designer for Chrono Trigger and creator of the Dragon Ball series, passed away in March 2024. He was just 68 years old. Though he’s gone now, publisher Bandai Namco has shared a note Toriyama wrote in January 2024 about developer ILCA’s Sand Land,...
Sand Land’s Video Game Adaptation Is A Devilishly Good Time
24.4.2024
Sand Land caught my attention as soon as I saw the game’s booth at New York City Comic Con last year, with its enormous recreation of the Royal Army tank. The game’s setting, character designs, and of course the tank, stuck with me, even though I wouldn’t consider myself familiar with much, if...