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Fans Divided After Learning Metaphor: ReFantazio Won’t Have Romance
23.4.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming RPG from developer Atlus’ Persona team, will bring in a lot of elements from its predecessor when it launches in October. This includes turn-based combat, social elements called “Bonds,” and a time management mechanic as you live out individual days. But one thing...
Suicide Squad Hackers Break Game To Play As Unreleased Characters
5.4.2024
It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem. Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters and skins. And publisher WB Games...
Suicide Squad’s Joker Season Has Players Big Mad
29.3.2024
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had a rocky development cycle and an even rockier launch, but players hoped that the first season of the action-adventure shooter would help right the ship. Unfortunately, the season, which introduces famed DC villain Joker, is getting absolutely shellacked...
Balatro Hits One Million Copies Sold In Less Than A Month, Mobile Port Incoming
18.3.2024
Balatro, the popular roguelike deck-builder quickly taking over the world, has now sold over 1 million copies in less than a month. And good news to all you Balatro sickos out there (myself included): the hit card game is getting ported to mobile devices, too. Finally, I’ll be able to stop playing...
Suicide Squad Game 'Fell Short Of Expectations,' Says WB
23.2.2024
It hasn’t even been a month since its release, but publisher Warner Bros. Games is disappointed in its live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. With barely 1,000 people playing the gameon Steam, the company has flat-out stated that Suicide Squad completely missed its purported...
Suicide Squad Easter Egg Hints At The Return Of A Beloved Character
9.2.2024
Since even before Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launched, there’s been a lot of drama surrounding a pivotal scene featuring Batman. Rocksteady’s loot shooter is the continuation of the Batman: Arkham storyline, so fans were naturally interested in how the game uses the caped crusader....
Suicide Squad’s Main Villian Accidentally Leaked The Next Playable Character
7.2.2024
While playing WB Games’ new co-op shooter,Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, a player was knocked down by enemies mid-fight. They then heard something that they were probably not meant to hear: the name of the game’s next playable character. And you can’t blame dataminers or leakers for this...
Persona 3 Reload Gives Me Hope Persona 6 Can Do Right By Queer Fans
6.2.2024
In the opening cutscene of Persona 3 Reload, protagonist Makoto Yuki walks by someone with a Pride pin on their bag. The shot lingers for a few seconds, making it hard to ignore this detail, a new addition for this remake of Atlus’ 2006 role-playing game. The moment also ends up serving as a pretty...
Suicide Squad’s First New Playable Character Will Be The Joker
22.1.2024
Rocksteady has revealed some of its post-launch plans for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. The biggest piece of news is that the Joker will be the first new playable character added to Suicide Squad post-launch. And no, this isn’t the Joker from the Arkham games. He’s still dead. Instead...
Hands-On: Persona 3 Reload Fixes One Of The Original’s Greatest Sins
16.1.2024
There’s been a lot of deserved criticism thrown Persona 3 Reload’s way for not implementing Persona 3 Portable’s female protagonist route into its ground-up remake. However, we’re not talking enough about one of the few parts of the female protagonist route that did make its way into the modern...
Six Years Ago, The Most Stylish RPG Ever Revived A Dying Genre
24.12.2023
Now that we’ve entered the final few days of 2023, the year’s bumper crop of new game releases has slowed to a trickle. With long, lazy days looming ahead, it’s a lovely time to cuddle up with one of the biggest, beefiest games in your backlog. And if you’re looking for beef, RPGs are the way...
‘Florida Joker’ Demands $2 Million Over GTA 6 Parody, Red Dead 2 Actor Fires Back
11.12.2023
A Florida man is calling on Rockstar Games to pay him $2 million for showing literally one second of a character who looks like him in the reveal trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. Lawrence Sullivan, AKA “Florida Joker,” accused the studio of stealing his likeness in his latest TikTok video. But a...
Real-Life ‘Florida Joker’ To GTA 6 Makers: ‘We Gotta Talk’
7.12.2023
It’s no secret that Grand Theft Auto VI takes a lot inspiration from IRL events and people, but one person colloquially called the “Florida Joker” has seemingly taken umbrage with Rockstar Games for possibly copying his whole entire vibe.Read more
Worst Version Of Batman: Arkham Trilogy Pays Tribute To Beloved Actor
6.12.2023
While the Batman: Arkham Trilogy may be something of a dumpster fire on Nintendo Switch, folks playing the superhero adventure games via the handheld-console hybrid found one redeeming element: a touching tribute to legendary Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy.Read more
Persona 5 Tactica Tries To Make Up For The Series’ Homophobia
14.11.2023
I love Persona 5, but over the years, Atlus’ stylish, supposedly socially-conscious RPG hasn’t loved me. Queer Persona fans know the series to be fraught, and even the most passionate among us treat it like the fun uncle who claims to love everyone and still says something extremely out of pocket...
12 Years After The GTA V Trailer, So Much Has Changed
2.11.2023
Grand Theft Auto V is one of the bestselling video games of all time. It’s been released on multiple console generations and its online multiplayer component, GTA Online, is still one of the biggest games in the world. But before all that, 12 years ago today, Rockstar Games blew people’s minds...
Persona 5 Tactica Has Me Questioning If I Want More Phantom Thieves Games
1.11.2023
About five hours into Persona 5 Tactica, the tactical RPG spin-off of the Phantom Thieves’ supernatural adventures through corrupted Tokyo, I find myself thinking about Persona 5 Royal more than what’s going on in this group’s latest adventure. This is less a condemnation of Tactica than it is...
Hands-On: Persona 5’s Tactics Spin-off Changes Everything, And It Rules
23.8.2023
After spending time with Persona 5 Tactica, the upcoming tactics-based spin-off reuniting the Phantom Thieves for another adventure, I’m intrigued by how P-Studio has recontextualized long-time mechanics for a different subgenre. I got hands-on time with the game alongside a separate demo...
Hands-On: Persona 5’s Tactics Spin-off Changes Everything, And It Rules
23.8.2023
After spending time with Persona 5 Tactica, the upcoming tactics-based spin-off reuniting the Phantom Thieves for another adventure, I’m intrigued by how P-Studio has recontextualized long-time mechanics for a different subgenre. I got hands-on time with the game alongside a separate demo...
The Joker Looks Wild In The Suicide Squad Anime By Attack On Titan Folks
6.7.2023
Warner Bros. Japan and Spy x Family producer Wit Studio announced at Anime Expo 2023 a new anime centering the DC supervillain team the Suicide Squad. The series, titled Suicide Squad Isekai, does not yet have a release date or an associated streamer, but it will no doubt unite the worst people...