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Resident Evil Village's Demo Contains A Small Nod To The Merchant From Resident Evil 4
25.4.2021
Resident Evil Village has some confusing demo nonsense, with limited times and different windows of availability. But if you do get a chance to play the demo you’ll hear a nice little reference to the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 aka the best character in that game.Read more
5 reasons Bitcoin and Ethereum plummeted 15% in a single day
23.4.2021
Bitcoin and Ethereum fell 15% and 20%, respectively, in one day, but why so much and so quickly?
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
23.4.2021
The weekend is about slowly and joylessly working through our backlog, somehow dripping with sweat and covered with coal dust. Where did all this sweat-enhancing coal dust come from? Read more
The Nier Replicant Remaster Does Many Good Things And One Awful Thing
23.4.2021
I played the original Nier back in 2010 and thoroughly enjoyed it despite the main character being a hideous troll of an old man. Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, with the handsome younger hero originally exclusive to Japan, looks, plays, and feels better overall, save the unfortunate inclusion...
CD Projekt Refunded Only 30,000 Copies Of Cyberpunk 2077
22.4.2021
Only a tiny fraction of the overall Cyberpunk 2077 sales resulted in refunds, CFO Piotr Nielubowicz told investors during an earnings call earlier today. Out of the 13.7 million copies sold, the Polish developer apparently issued just 30,000 refunds.Read more
Hades Wins Game Of The Year At The 2021 DICE Awards
22.4.2021
Beloved indie game Hades scored the most wins at this year’s DICE Awards. Supergiant’s excellent roguelike action game ultimately won five awards, including “Game of the Year.”Read more
The Nintendo Download: It's Picross Day, Motherpuzzlers
22.4.2021
Another Thursday, another 35+ new games for the Nintendo Switch. This week one of those games is Picross S6. The rest of them? Shantae? MotoGP 21? Dungholes? Not nearly as important.Read more
Resident Evil 4 Now Has Dual-Wielding In VR
22.4.2021
During today’s Oculus Gaming Showcase, executive producer Ruth Bram shared more information on the upcoming virtual reality port of Resident Evil 4.Read more
Returnal Feels Like An Actual PS5 Game
22.4.2021
A busted spaceship. An uncharted exoplanet teeming with hostile life. An emphasis on scanning objects, upgrading equipment, and retracing your footsteps. Those might sound like core components of a new Metroid Prime, but they’re not, at least not in this case. They’re the ingredients of...
Clock Tower Is Creepy As Hell For A Super Nintendo Game
21.4.2021
I had one simple reason for playing 1995 survival horror classic Clock Tower decades after its original release: I didn’t want to be a poser anymore.Read more
Sonic 2 Movie Set Photos Feature A Second Sonic Sidekick
21.4.2021
We know Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Sonic, and the teaser at the end of the first movie revealed Tails. Photos shot during the sequel’s filming in Vancouver show off a third anthropomorphic animal character that could be joining the cast. Potential movie spoilers but come on, we all know who...
Japan's Fraudulent Composer Returns Years Later With New Music
21.4.2021
In 2014, it was revealed that Mamoru Samuragochi, who was called “Japan’s Beethoven,” was not actually deaf. What’s more, he also used a ghostwriter for music.Read more
Mother 3 Gets An Updated English Patch On Its 15th Anniversary
20.4.2021
The folks behind the wonderful English translation of Mother 3 are still working on the project over a decade later. Earlier today—which also happens to be the 15th anniversary of Nintendo’s milestone RPG in Japan—they dropped a new patch that irons out some lingering bugs in the unofficial...
Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game
20.4.2021
Programmer and digital artist Sammu recently put out a nifty video showcasing her work combining the two different versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 into a mega-game featuring the mechanics of one and the levels of the other. As a fan of both, I desperately want to play it.Read more
PINT to Tokenize Exposure to the Top Polkadot Initiatives
19.4.2021
As the launch date for parachains nears, a new initiative is constructing a decentralized finance (defi) index token that tracks Polkadot projects aimed at helping investors diversify their holdings through a single instrument. Six Projects Provide Soft Commitments to Join Polkadot Index Network...
Pfft, The Medium Isn’t Even That Scary
19.4.2021
Full disclosure: I am a wimp. Horror games? Can’t do ‘em. So it is with a modicum of surprise that—and I say this hesitantly—a couple hours in, I’m not scared of The Medium. At least not yet.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV’s Latest Update Is Full of Dragons, Drama, and Drakengard References
19.4.2021
Last week Final Fantasy XIV released the first half of its final Shadowbringers update, entitled Death Unto Dawn, alongside the launch of its PS5 beta. This is the last major patch before the game’s highly anticipated Endwalker expansion, and it makes for an engaging and challenging burst...
Super Mario 64 Plus Adds Very Cool Settings And Ideas To Nintendo's Classic
19.4.2021
Super Mario 64 Plus is a modified version of the PC port of Super Mario 64, which takes the original and adds loads of stuff like 60FPS, bug fixes, a ton of in-game options and, best of all, “The ability to continue the level after getting a star.”Read more
No-VR Mod Brings Half Life: Alyx To Players Who Can't Afford Headsets
17.4.2021
By all accounts, Half Life: Alyx is a phenomenal game. But because it’s VR-only, large swathes of gamers simply cannot play it due to the high costs of VR hardware and the computers to support it. To remedy this, modders have been working on No VR mods for Alyx, with varying levels of success.Read...
IO Interactive Opens Third Studio, Working On Third Game Alongside Hitman And 007
16.4.2021
Danish developer IO Interactive announced today that it has opened a third studio in Barcelona, Spain to work alongside its existing locations in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden.Read more