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Ian Walker's Top Ten Games Of 2021
22.12.2021
Writing up a “Top X Games Of X Year” list is always a slog, but all the ups and downs of 2021—both personal and global—made it even harder. Frankly, there were points over the last 12 months where the last thing I wanted to do was sit down and play a video game.Read more
The 11 Best Cozy Games That Helped Us Survive 2021
22.12.2021
This year was the worst of times and...no, wait. I’m hearing it was just the worst of times. But games have helped a lot of us through it, especially ones that lean more relaxing than punishing.Read more
Retro Zelda Game Sells For Nearly $4,000 Thanks To Ramen Sticker
21.12.2021
A rare Famicom Disk System copy of the original The Legend of Zelda was recently purchased for thousands of dollars, all because the disk features a sticker with the name of a popular instant noodle brand.Read more
The Epic Games Store Is Giving Away Loop Hero And Other Great Games For Free
21.12.2021
In the modern gaming landscape it’s pretty easy to get away with not paying for games. In part that’s because the studios make free ones that are really, really good. But it’s also because deep-pocketed companies like Epic keep giving away even the paid ones. This year’s annual holiday sale on...
The Week In Games: A Mostly Quiet Winter Week
20.12.2021
As we enter the week of Christmas and get closer to the end of 2021, the release schedule has, as it always does this time of year, mostly evaporated. But that’s not a bad thing! In fact, this is often a great time to get caught up on some previous releases. Read more
Resident Evil Village And Metroid Dread Were The Most Completed Games In 2021
19.12.2021
Resident Evil Village is a great game! It’s easily one of my favorite games of 2021. But it’s also a game that can, at times, be scary or tricky to get through. So, I was surprised to see stats showing it as the most completed video game released in 2021. Read more
A Couple Of Hours With The First Big Five Nights At Freddy's Since Scott Cawthon's Retirement
18.12.2021
The eighth main installment of the Five Nights at Freddy’s saga beings with a glam-rock ‘80s version of Freddy Fazbear, noted child-murdering robot, suffering a malfunction on stage in front of his hordes of fans. When the animatronic awakens, he discovers he’s picked up an unwanted passenger...
The Most Underrated Final Fantasy Just Came To Game Pass
17.12.2021
When Final Fantasy XIII-2, the series’ most infamous middle child, first came out, it was received well by people who played it but overlooked by almost everyone else. Now, having just celebrated its 10th anniversary in Japan this week, one of Square Enix’s weirder and more electrifying spin-offs...
Everything Shown At Today's Nintendo Indie Direct
15.12.2021
Nintendo aired a 20-minute Direct showcase today, focusing on third-party games from independent developers. Those holding their breath for news of Hollow Knight: Silksong will, sadly, have to continue holding their breath. Still, Nintendo packed a whole lot of announcements in not a whole lot...
Six Years (And One Bethesda Problem) Later, Shadow Of The Colossus Tribute Is Finally Out
15.12.2021
It was all the way back in 2015 that I first wrote about a game called Prey For The Gods, an indie homage to Shadow of the Colossus. Six years later, with a name change along the way, the game is now out.Read more
The Switch Had An Uneven 2021 Despite Outselling The Competition All Year
14.12.2021
The Nintendo Switch had a pretty odd 2021, all things considered. This has been a bit of a slow year, and it is no wonder why. Developers were thrown into panic, as most of us were, by 2020’s covid-19 outbreak. While this did slow things down in 2020, a lot of games released that year were already...
The Assassin's Creed Expansions Just Keep Coming
14.12.2021
I wrote in January that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was too damn long, and that was before two whole expansions were released for it over the course of this year. Now the game is getting another one, as well as some missions for its predecessor Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as well.Read more
Netflix's Next Live-Action Victim Is Mega Man
13.12.2021
It looks like Netflix, flush off their success adapting Cowboy Bebop, have cast their eyes towards another beloved Japanese character: Mega Man. Read more
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Next Big DLC Leaked Ahead Of Official Reveal
11.12.2021
Ubisoft needs to grab some Flex Seal, because a bunch of new screenshots and info about the next big Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC have leaked via early listings found on Chinese stores and shared on Reddit and elsewhere. As previously rumored, this new DLC is titled “Dawn of Ragnarok,”...
The Sequel To BotW Started Trending Because It Still Doesn’t Have A Name
10.12.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2–Sorry, sorry. The Sequel to The Legend of–Actually, you know what? Screw it. We all know this is a sequel, and the awkward dance around its name is just cloying at this point. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 started trending on social media last...
Sega Reveals Sonic Frontiers, The First Open-World Sonic Game
10.12.2021
We’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog games with free-roaming hub areas, but a fully open-world Sonic? That’s an entirely new animal. Ready or not, here comes Sonic Frontiers, which Sega is calling Sonic’s first “open-zone-inspired gaming experience.” Check out the first trailer, as well as a...
Good News, The Final Fantasy 7 Remake Is Coming To PC
10.12.2021
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, the re-imagining of a Square Enix JRPG that’s better than it has any right to be, will head to PC at long last on December 16 so non-console players can experience one of 2020's best games.Read more
Silent Hill Creator Is Working On A Spooky New Horror Game
10.12.2021
It might not be the Silent Hill announcement that fans have been waiting for, but the trailer for Splitterhead revealed at The Game Awards looks just as spooky and dreadful as its spiritual successor. Read more
Horizon Forbidden West's Dinosaurs Are Suitably Epic In New Footage
10.12.2021
Guerrilla Games showed off more of Horizon Forbidden West—which criminally is not titled Horizon One Dawn or Horizon Zero Dusk—at The Game Awards tonight. Take a look:Read more
A Decade Later, Alan Wake II Finally Announced
10.12.2021
After a brutal 11 years, there is finally an Alan Wake sequel and it’s a survival horror game. I, for one, am beyond excited.Read more