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We May Know The New Mega Evolutions Coming To Pokémon Legends: Z-A
26.3.2025
One of the big selling points of Pokémon Legends: Z-A is that the Switch RPG is bringing back Mega Evolutions. These are temporary transformations that only a handful of Pokémon get that alter their look and give them a major power boost. However, when Game Freak finally showed the game in action...
13 PS5 Games That Are All A Steal At $10 Or Less During Sony's Spring Sale
26.3.2025
Sony is closing March out with its 2025 spring sale across PlayStation 5 and PS4. There are a lot of big games that are a great deal right now, thanks to discounts of up to 90 percent off, including one of my personal favorite games of 2024. Read more
Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct Sounds Like The Switch's Last Hurrah
26.3.2025
We already knew that Nintendo will be holding a Direct next week to finally pull back the curtain in a big way on the Switch 2. However, it looks like the company also has a few more OG Switch games it wants to spotlight, as it’s holding a surprise Nintendo Direct tomorrow, March 27.Read more
12 Of The Biggest Choices We've Agonized Over In Games
26.3.2025
One of the best things video games can do is let us have ownership over the stories we play through. Crafting meaningful, engaging moments of choice and consequence can be difficult for some developers to navigate, but when a game really makes you stop and consider why you’re doing something beyond...
Witcher 4 Is So Far Away It Sounds Like It Might Be A PS6 Game
25.3.2025
If you are excited to play CD Projekt Red’s upcoming RPG The Witcher 4, just know that you’re gonna be waiting a long time. The developer has confirmed that the earliest possible release date for the sequel is sometime in 2027, making me wonder if The Witcher 4 might end up being a game we all play...
You Can Finish Atomfall Pretty Quickly, If You Rush Through The Wasteland
25.3.2025
There have been quite a few games over the years that examine the fallout of a nuclear event, but developer Rebellion’s new title Atomfall distinguishes itself by using a real-life accident as the basis for its tale. Taking place in an alternate reality following the Windscale nuclear disaster...
PlayStation RPG Classic The Legend Of Dragoon Sounds Like It Happened Almost By Chance
24.3.2025
The Legend of Dragoon was Sony’s attempt to crack the classic turn-based RPG formula on the original PlayStation, but it wasn’t part of some grand push into new genres. The way ex-PlayStation Studios veteran Shuhei Yoshida talks about the cult hit, it sounds as if the ambitious fantasy adventure...
How To Level Up Mad Fast In Assassin's Creed Shadows
24.3.2025
While it’s completely viable to cut down your foes solely via stealthy assassinations and brute-force katana strikes as either Naoe or Yasuke, leveling up and investing in additional abilities makes combat far more enticing. You can Spartan kick your enemies as Yasuke and lurch forward in...
Hollow Knight: Silksong's Copyright Updated, Fans Enter Newfound Levels Of Excitement, Nation In Chaos
24.3.2025
Did you feel it? A disturbance in the code? The very slightest shift in the metadata? Hollow Knight: Silksong acolytes all across the world all sat up at once, aware that something—something—has changed. What does it mean? Is the years-late game about to reveal something new?Read more
A Great New City-Builder, A Terrific New Zombie Shooter, And More Of The Week's Recommendations And Opinions
22.3.2025
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
There's A Lot Of Cool Dinosaur Games To Be Excited About
21.3.2025
A decade ago, in a poorly written post on my terrible old blog that I won’t link to here, I pondered why we didn’t have more dinosaur games. At the time I blamed it on technical limitations and a focus on zombie-filled wastelands, and the lack of good dinosaur games made me really sad. So I’m happy...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Take You A Whopping 60 Hours To Finish, And That's If You Rush
21.3.2025
You could easily spend hundreds of hours on a single playthrough for the past few RPG-oriented titles in the Assassin’s Creed series, those being Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. It’s been a a bit too much for those with too little free time to invest in such a sprawling storyline with dozens...
Silent Hill 4, Deus Ex And F.E.A.R. Among Latest Games To Enter GOG's Preservation Program
21.3.2025
The disappearance and unavailability of classic titles is causing an existential crisis in all of video gaming. Last November, in response, online PC games store GOG announced a Preservation Program, where over 100 games are promised ongoing support to be sold and run on modern machines forever....
Document Your Journey Through Feudal Japan With Assassin's Creed Shadows' Excellent Photo Mode
20.3.2025
I’m an absolute sucker for taking in-game screenshots of my favorite games and even those I don’t particularly enjoy. And I’m not alone. Virtual photography has become quite the movement among us digital shutterbugs. Read more
No One Was Around To Collect Life Is Strange: Double Exposure's Award For Social Impact Following Layoffs
20.3.2025
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was a divisive sequel to a beloved narrative-driven adventure series. It ended up winning the Social Impact award at the Game Developers Choice Awards last night, but following mass layoffs at developer Deck Nine Games last year, it was also one of the only games...
25 Assassin's Creed Shadows Tips To Check Out Before Playing
20.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out now, is a very good entry in Ubisoft’s long-running franchise. But it’s also a big, complicated game with a lot of different mechanics, systems, features, and options. And Shadows doesn’t always do a great job of explaining how all of this stuff works.Read more
Assassin's Creed Shadows Addresses Ongoing Controversy Around Cultural Sensitivity With Day-One Patch
20.3.2025
A day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will address criticisms of how the open-world RPG allows players to go on a violent rampage through religious shrines in 1500s Japan. Parts of specific buildings will no longer be destructible, and the monks inside will no longer bleed when...
What To Do First Upon Reaching Honolulu In Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
19.3.2025
After spending so much time drifting between minor islands, stumbling upon a massive city like Honolulu, in a pirate ship of all things, is quite the spectacle. Of course, despite your arrival being positively dramatic, the locals still want to fight you! But worry not: The city contains much...
The Antidote To Sephiroth Posting Is Barret Posting
19.3.2025
You’ve no doubt encountered someone who posts on social media like they’re Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, right? You know what I mean. These people, usually to simp for billionaires, voice their support for AI taking over creative fields, or justify discriminating against people, love to make...
How To Survive Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
18.3.2025
As we are all aware, the purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people. Nobody does this better than Ryu Hayabusa, which is why when demons want to take over the planet, they have to send, conservatively, 780,000 of them to try and stop him. Now, nobody’s saying Ryu isn’t capable–he is a ninja...