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Everything At Summer Game Fest 2023's Main Showcase
9.6.2023
Summer Game Fest is now the big gaming event of the summery season. With E3 seeming ever-more unlikely to ever return, it’s Geoff Keighley’s schmooze-a-thon alone for all your big game announcement news. And we have this year’s show covered, with every single game announced, shown or even mumbled...
Duke Nukem Promo Caught Using AI Images, Publisher Apologises
2.6.2023
What would otherwise have been a fairly minor announcement, the news that the first two Duke Nukem games were coming to an Evercade handheld, has blown up after the rapid discovery that the bundle’s promotion included a bunch of terrible machine-generated imagery.Read more
Fallout: New Vegas Is Currently Free On PC
25.5.2023
You’re busy, I get it. But if you’ve been too preoccupied to find time to buy the influential action role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas in the 13 years since its release, Epic Games brings good news: you can now download it for free. Read more
New Mortal Kombat Will Be The Nintendo Switch’s Second $70 Game
18.5.2023
Mortal Kombat 1, a reboot of the long-running fighting game franchise, is somehow coming to the Nintendo Switch and will also cost $70. That makes it only the second game on the platform to adopt the new price point often reserved for “next-gen” games, and the first made by an outside...
Mortal Kombat Reboots Again, New Game Reimagines Iconic Characters
18.5.2023
Warner Bros. Games just announced the release of Mortal Kombat 1, a rebirth and reimagining of the Mortal Kombat universe and its characters. Read more
I Could Watch These Rotoscoped Graphics All Day Long
8.5.2023
There are, by my count, 1732 indie games coming out every day now, which makes promoting them (for devs) and covering them (for us) almost impossible. One trend I’ve enjoyed lately, though, is an attempt to market a game not just by showing the game, but by showing what went into making...
Mortal Kombat Movie Sequel May Have Found Its Johnny Cage
5.5.2023
It sounds like the Mortal Kombat movie sequel has found its Johnny Cage in The Boys and The Lord of the Rings actor Karl Urban.Read more
Two Classic 90s Adventure Games Are Getting Unexpected Remakes
17.3.2023
Our collective video gaming memory is a weird thing. Some games from decades past are committed to The Pantheon, where they will be spoken about and remembered for all time. Others, meanwhile, can be some of the biggest releases of their time, only to disappear and never be heard from again.Read...
Mystery Mortal Kombat 11 Turbo Teabagging Troll Wows At Pro Tourney
27.2.2023
One of the best players in competitive Mortal Kombat 11 might’ve fallen shy of claiming the title of champion in a recent tournament, but that didn’t stop them from striking fear and awe into every opponent as they bested some of the most lethal players. The thrilling victory would go on to another...
The Last Of Us Show Made One Of The Best Game Moments Worse
27.2.2023
In retrospect, it was pretty clear HBO’s take on The Last of Us was going to do away with one of the source material’s best moments. Back in episode three, Joel and Ellie find a defunct Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet, prompting the young girl to excitedly tell her grumpy guardian about Mileena’s...
Mortal Kombat 12 Has Been Very Quietly Announced
24.2.2023
Warner Bros., this is not how it is done! There are rules and guidelines in place for how video games are revealed in 2023, and “quickly mentioning it in passing on a phone call” breaks all of them!Read more
Revealing Mortal Kombat II Code Leak Pulled By Warner Bros.
11.1.2023
Over the Winter holiday, someone filled all Mortal Kombat appreciators’ Christmas stockings up with something a lil’ extra: Mortal Kombat II’s source code on GitHub. The lawyers at Warner Bros. took exception to this by issuing a swift DMCA takedown notice that Github adhered to by disabling public...
Street Fighter 6 Drops In June With Cool 2v2 Mode
9.12.2022
You may have already seen, but Street Fighter 6's June 2, 2023 release date leaked late in the day on December 8. Apparently Sony, whether accidentally or intentionally, published the date on the PlayStation Store, alongside three different editions that will be available come launch....
Incredible Mod Recreates SimCity 2000 Cities In Minecraft, Down To The Trees
6.12.2022
The year is 1994. You’re playing SimCity 2000 and you’re thinking, man, wouldn’t it be amazing if I could somehow get down into the game and walk these streets.Read more
Sega's Lost 'Erotic Thriller' Has Been Found
1.11.2022
In the mid-90s, with the Saturn bombing and the video game landscape changing rapidly, Sega rolled the dice and made a few risky bets. One of those was, uh, sinking $3 million into the creation of an adult-oriented FMV game called Sacred Pools that was so bad it ended up being binned before it...
Amazon Has Something ‘Special’ For Fallout Fans: A Single Screenshot Of The Show
25.10.2022
Happy birthday to the Fallout franchise—which I’m currently treating as a real person and not a corporate-owned IP—you’re 25 years old this year! Wow, how time flies. You are bigger than ever, with multiple games, DLC, mods, and now an in-development TV show from Amazon. Let’s see what Amazon...
The Week In Games: Remake Mania
29.8.2022
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Xbox Adds More Classic Bethesda Bangers To Game Pass
18.8.2022
PC Game Pass users now have access to more classic Bethesda and id Software games, including some old Elder Scrolls spin-offs and old-school shooters, like Wolfenstein 3D. And that’s not all. Bethesda is also offering some older games for free in the Microsoft Store on PC. Read more
Sierra Founders Ken & Roberta Williams Talk About Their Past (And Future) In Video Games
20.7.2022
In 1979 husband-and-wife team Ken & Roberta Williams founded a small company that would later become known as Sierra, and which would play an enormous role in the development of some of the most beloved video games series of all time.Read more