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The Best TNMT Game In Years Gets Radical New DLC
7.6.2023
Last year’s retro-inspired arcade co-op brawler, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, was unexpectedly one of 2022’s best games. It was also one of the best TMNT games in years and a genuine hit. So it makes sense that Tribute Games, the developers behind Shredder’s Revenge,...
This New Steam Exclusive Is Literally About Winnie The Pooh’s Hole
7.6.2023
How far tubby honey bear Winnie-the-Pooh has fallen. Now that he’s entered the public domain, he can no longer merely stumble through the painless Hundred Acre Wood stuffing his face full of dessert with no pants on. Now, he plays the swollen and bleeding protagonist to the just-announced indie...
This Pokémon Game Had Been Lost For Years, Until Now
7.6.2023
My first foray into the world of Pokémon as a kid was the Generation 3 games, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. So it brought me great pleasure to hear of a new project led by a group of video game preservationists, working to restore a lost web-browser-based Pokémon game that was released during...
The Pokémon Card Game's Return To The OG 151 Didn't Need To Pop Off This Hard
7.6.2023
On June 16, The Pokémon Company in Japan will finally release the enormously anticipated Pokémon Card 151 set of trading cards. The reason people are so excited? Well, in large part it’s because this is the first time the original 151 Generation 1 Pokémon will be released together in a set in over...
Research Shows Majority of Pepe Investors Caught in High-Stakes Game of Musical Chairs
7.6.2023
The majority of investors did not stand to gain from Pepecoin's herculean rise, indicating a limited window for potential gains
Myst Studio's New Game Has Loads Of AI-Generated Stuff
7.6.2023
Cyan, the studio behind Myst and Riven, has for the last few years been funding its games via Kickstarter. That’s how 2016's Obduction was made, and it’s also how 2023's Firmament—with more than a little help from machines this time—was developed as well.Read more
Netflix Series I Think You Should Leave’s Ridic Egg Game Is Now Real
6.6.2023
Netflix’s sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave premiered its third season at the end of May, and while the series is highly successful in creating ear-worm quotables—”That’s a Chunky” and “Now I’m sick off of your mud pie” come to mind—the egg game from the second episode has captured...
Hoarding Game Pass Downloads Just Got Cheaper On Xbox
6.6.2023
The market for Xbox Series X/S storage expansion cards just got a little more competitive. Electronics maker Western Digital just announced a new line of memory cards starting at 500GB that are $10 less than the existing options from Seagate, just in time for the onslaught of big 2023 releases...
Diablo 4 Is Blizzard’s Fastest-Selling Game Ever, According To Them
6.6.2023
Diablo IV—which has been experiencing login issues since its official launch on June 5—immediately set a record for the fastest-selling Blizzard game of all time, a press release from the developer says. It marks the World of Warcraft creator’s “highest pre-launch unit sales ever on both console...
If Crypto Wants Institutional Dollars, It Needs an ESG Game Plan: Consensus 2023 Attendees
6.6.2023
Attendees at Consensus 2023 argue that the crypto industry should embrace ESG and not hide from it in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
A Showcase Of Some Of The Best Games You Have Probably Never Heard Of
6.6.2023
It’s June 2023 and there are too many video games. Not the big ones—those are rare and increasingly so—but every tier under that is absolutely stacked with new releases, so many that it’s almost impossible to keep tabs on them all.Read more
Grinding out a living: Can blockchain games really offer a sustainable income?
6.6.2023
Blockchain gaming executives believe the law has not yet caught up with the concept of earning a living through gaming
Amnesia: The Bunker Might Be This Year’s Scariest Horror Game
5.6.2023
I’ve played horror games completely drenched in blood this year—nasty games with bombs and meat grinders rendered in high fidelity detail, but none have made me scream until the more straightforward Amnesia: The Bunker. Read more
Spider-Verse Snuck In Some Unseen Game Footage Of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
5.6.2023
Sony Picture’s hotly-anticipated animated film, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, includes never-before-seen gameplay footage of the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 game.Read more
The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Diablo IV
5.6.2023
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Microsoft Promises No Completely Fake Trailers At Xbox Showcase
5.6.2023
We’re a week away from the big not-E3 Xbox summer showcase for 2023 and the ball’s in Microsoft’s court to win back fans after a quiet 12 months punctuated by the disastrous launch of Redfall. In a subtle shot at the recently underwhelming PS5 showcase, Xbox marketing VP Aaron Greenberg promised...
Nintendo Announces First-Party Switch Game With Zero Fanfare
2.6.2023
Almost a full calendar year after the report of its existence went live at Fanbyte, Nintendo has announced a sequel to the unusual mini-game party compilation 1-2 Switch, and it’s launching later this month.Read more
Here’s The Fix For Diablo IV Couch Co-Op
2.6.2023
Snatching up Diablo IV’s $90 Deluxe or $100 Ultimate editions is supposed to give you four days of early access to the loot-grinding RPG ahead of its June 5 global release. While this early entry into the gates of Hell is welcomed, some folks, myself included, have run into an issue unrelated...
Street Fighter 6 Is Already Steam’s Most Played Fighting Game Of All Time
2.6.2023
The latest entry in Capcom’s fighting game franchise, Street Fighter 6, broke the all-time concurrent players record on Steam making it the most-played fighting game at launch on PC. I guess it’s safe to say that “CapGod” is so back.Read more
Meet The Psychologist Determined To Prove Video Games Are Good, Actually
2.6.2023
Dr. Rachel Kowert is a busy woman. The video game research psychologist is currently in London, where she’s set to give a talk on the fostering of terrorist cells and extremist beliefs in digital game spaces, a project she’s working on with the Department of Homeland Security (no, she can’t really...