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This Colorful Soulslike Is As Surreal And Funny As It Is Sadistic
8.7.2022
Soulslike games are generally about death and dying, but Pain Party, which is in Steam Early Access, understands that horror runs deeper than that. This Soulslike platformer, which you can play either solo or against other players, throws you into a bizarre hell where everything can kill you in...
Japan's Former Prime Minister Abe Shot Dead; Equity Futures Fall
8.7.2022
Abe was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history
Obscure Japanese PS1 Game Finally Available In English
8.7.2022
Back in 2000 Sony released a game called Aconcagua for the PlayStation 1. An adventure game set in the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, it has spent the last 22 years only available in Japanese. Until now!Read more
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Remaster Retains Sephiroth’s Intense Hair Care Routine
7.7.2022
We got a bunch of information about Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion today, including the important news that flavor text about Sephiroth’s gratuitously thorough hair care routine will be carried over from the original game.Read more
What Yu-Gi-Oh Meant For Immigrant Duelists
7.7.2022
Yu-gi-oh never reached the same heights of global mainstream acceptability as Pokémon. The art had a bold style that never fell in line with mass market appeal, and each generation of cards came with a new convoluted ruleset that often stumped even the most dedicated fans. Yet the trading card game...
Elden Ring's 'Let Me Solo Her' Gifted Actual Sword By Devs, Because He's A Legend
7.7.2022
Elden Ring took the world by storm earlier this year, but of the millions of players, one rose above the rest: Klein Tsuboi, AKA “Let Me Solo Her.” Weidling nothing but dual katanas and a pot on his head, he helped other players kill one of the game’s toughest bosses thousands of times....
The Creator Of Yu-Gi-Oh Has Died
7.7.2022
Manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, best known as the creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh series (and the popular card game it’s based on), has been found dead.Read more
Splatoon 3 Special Edition Switch Looks Gorgeously Subtle
6.7.2022
It’s not a Switch Pro but it’ll do. Just in time for the ink shooter’s September launch, Nintendo is releasing a Splatoon 3-themed Switch OLED on August 26. It’ll go for $360, and if you haven’t already upgraded to the newer model, now might be the time, at least if you can manage to get your hands...
Game Pass Is Now Officially A Revolving Door For Big Games
5.7.2022
If you didn’t beat them the first time around (fair, they’re huge), you now have a second chance. Three of the best Yakuza entries are coming back to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service, alongside a handful of more family-friendly games. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass over the coming...
Every Single English-Language SNES Manual Is Now Available Online
4.7.2022
Back in October 2020 I did a feature on a project that was trying to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, scan them and upload them onto the internet. I’m happy to report that, as of July 2022, the project has now completed a significant—and for many of you reading this it’s...
Summer Games Done Quick Raises Over $3 Million For Charity
4.7.2022
Summer Games Done Quick, a charity speedrun marathon that was back with an in-person event for the first time in a few years, was held between June 26-July 3 in Bloomington, Minnesota. And at the end of the week, once all the runs were done, the event had raised an enormous $3 million...
Japanese Trust Banks Likely to Gain Permission to Handle Crypto from Autumn
2.7.2022
Japan is set to allow trust banks to manage cryptoassets – after a top financial regulator announced plans to roll out legislation that could become legally binding later this year.
The newspaper Nikkei reported that the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the body that polices both the banking...
KOTOR 2 Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
1.7.2022
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish. Read more
Netflix’s New Heavy Metal Fantasy Anime Is Unapologetically Horny And That's OK
1.7.2022
When I first watched Netflix’s new anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, I expected a melodramatic anime series along the lines of Record of Lodoss War. What I got was an unapologetically horny show about a wizard and his ever-growing harem of big-haired anime waifus. I loved every second...
Let’s Remember How Amazing 2002 Was For Video Games
1.7.2022
When people talk about the “best” year in gaming, they typically trot out the usual suspects: 2007 (Assassin’s Creed! Mass Effect! Halo 3!), 2013 (The Last of Us! GTA V!), 2017 (Horizon Zero Dawn! That other open-world game!). Allow us to posit that one of the best years in gaming happened exactly...
PSA: Seriously, Don’t Miss The Final Night Of Games Done Quick
1.7.2022
For the past week, Games Done Quick has held its annual speedrunning festival. As always, the event has been awesome, full of some truly mind-blowing feats, including an exploit-packed run through Halo Infinite’s open-world-ish campaign. But organizers appear to have saved the best for last, with...
Fire Emblem Heroes Becomes Nintendo’s First Billion-Dollar Mobile Game
1.7.2022
I’ll admit that, until yesterday, I had no idea Fire Emblem Heroes was still active and updated. But a lot of people are still playing the game and apparently spending money on it, too. New data shows that Fire Emblem Heroes has just reached $1 billion in revenue, becoming the first Nintendo mobile...
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Is Twice As Fun On ‘Classic’ Mode
1.7.2022
A tip: If you’re playing Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, stick with the “classic” mode, whatever happens. C’mon. Despite its musou trappings, Three Hopes is still a Fire Emblem game, with all the life-or-death stakes and high-minded strategizing that entails.Read more
Someone Reportedly Bought Up $40k Of Stock To Ask Nintendo About F-Zero
1.7.2022
Many Nintendo fans desperately want a new entry in the popular sci-fi racing series, F-Zero. However, only one diehard fan was reportedly dedicated enough to spend over 5 million yen (roughly $40,000 US) on Nintendo stock, giving him a chance to ask the Japanese publisher about F-Zero and...
Sega Considering Live-Action Persona Movie Or TV Show
30.6.2022
Video game publisher Sega, fresh off the success of its live-action Sonic films, is looking to adapt more games into films or TV shows. Specifically, Sega says it’s in the early stages to produce live-action adaptations of Atlus games, like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei. Read more