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A Beginner's Guide To Maelle In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
8.5.2025
Usually in an RPG, when you think “absolute assbeating swordwielder” in a video game, you picture the likes of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, Auron from FFX, or even someone like Hulkenberg from Metaphor ReFantazio. What you’re usually not thinking of is a tiny befreckled orphan girl who wins the...
9 Games You Should Play If You Loved Fantasian: Neo Dimension
8.5.2025
2024 was an absurdly crowded year for RPGs, but it’s also a treasure trove—especially if you’re willing to look past all the big names. Fantasian: Neo Dimension is a neat middle ground. It’s a non-franchise IP from a less-known studio, but backed by Square Enix and led by some of the biggest...
Mafia 4 Launching In August, Will Cost Only $50
8.5.2025
Mafia: The Old Country, the next entry in the Mafia franchise, is officially arriving on consoles and PC this August. And interestingly, despite nearly every publisher charging more for new games, the Mafia prequel will only cost $50 across all platforms.Read more
Switch 2 Will Get Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth And The Rest Of The Remake Trilogy, Too
7.5.2025
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was one of the last-gen blockbusters revealed to be getting a Switch 2 port during the recent Nintendo Direct. But that game is already five years old. What about the rest of the trilogy, including last year’s gargantuan RPG adventure Rebirth? It sounds like...
Forget Oblivion Remastered, Play Daggerfall Unity Instead
7.5.2025
With Bethesda’s (sort of) surprise announcement of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, you might find that there are some out there who’d try to encourage you to play fan-made Morrowind remakes instead. Ignore those people, they’re cowards and fools. You should be playing Daggerfall right...
Could We Be About To Enter A Skippable Boss Fight Utopia?
7.5.2025
In a gaming world increasingly built out of Soulslikes, where the concept of the boss battle becomes the central game mechanic, some of us have been left behind. I have always hated boss fights, and while I have no interest in convincing anyone else to agree with me, I have long lamented the lack...
Everything You Need To Know About The Lunar Remastered Collection
6.5.2025
Fans of old-school role-playing games have been asking for remasters of Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue for ages. And now, with the arrival of the Lunar Remastered Collection, the long and tortuous wait for these beloved games is finally over. This updated collection combines...
One-Year Countdown Clock Is Teasing Ecco The Dolphin's Return
5.5.2025
Ecco The Dolphin is back, baby! Well...will be back. Is coming back. Look, you’re going to have to wait basically a full calendar year before you can play remastered versions of the first two games and learn more about a new sequel from the original creator of the series.Read more
Fallout 1 & 2 Source Code Still Exists, Despite Orders To Destroy It
5.5.2025
The original source code for Interplay’s Fallout and its sequel Fallout 2 was thought lost and destroyed. But it turns out that at least one person defied orders from the studio and saved the source code behind two of the most popular PC RPGs ever made. Read more
Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster Of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' And Supports It
1.5.2025
Last week, Xbox and Bethesda shadow-dropped a fancy remaster of 2006 open-world RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and it promptly took over the world. However, it also made some people worried that a long-in-development fan mod which also aims to recreate the aging RPG would face legal issues...
What's The Best Class For Beginners In Oblivion Remastered?
1.5.2025
If you ask random folks what their favorite class is in Oblivion—classic or Remastered—they’ll all proclaim something different as the absolute best. We all have favorite playstyles, after all. But if you’re brand new, as in you never played the original, surely there’s a single class that...
Assassin's Creed Shadows' Afflictions, Demystified
1.5.2025
How exhausted are you by stagger? It’s unironically the worst status affliction in video gaming history. Thankfully, it’s not much of an issue in Assassin’s Creed Shadows—at least for the player. The action-adventure from Ubisoft does have a similar status effect—Daze—but you’ll most often be...
Stardew Valley Creator Steps Away to Finish Haunted Chocolatier: “I Might Just Disappear”
1.5.2025
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Ubisoft Drops Heavy Hints Of A Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Sequel
1.5.2025
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s developers got done dirty. The side-scrolling Metroidvania entry into the 36-year-old series sold an extraordinary 1.3 million copies, and yet despite this, Eurogamer reported last year that the internal team at Ubisoft Montpellier that had created the game...
Even Atari Game Cartridges Are Getting More Expensive Because Of Tariffs
30.4.2025
Atari has put out updated versions of multiple classic consoles in recent years, following up its Atari 2600+ replica console from 2023 with the 7800+ in late 2024, all accompanied by honest-to-god physical cartridge releases containing classic Atari games like Berzerk, Space Duel, and Ninja Golf....
Ubisoft Reveals Massive Post-Launch Road Map For Assassin's Creed Shadows
30.4.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s latest entry in its long-running historical fiction franchise, is set to receive some big updates over the next few months as explained in a new content roadmap released on April 30. Read more
Prepare For Balatro To Take Over Your Life When It Hits PS Plus In May
30.4.2025
I can already feel how much sleep I’m about to lose when Balatro becomes one of the free monthly games for PlayStation Plus in May. The 2024 GOTY contender and viral high score chase sensation is only a year old and about to win over a whole new group of converts to its Joker-worshipping cult....
Creepy Horror Series Rusty Lake Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With A Surprise New Game And Film
30.4.2025
It all began with Cube Escape back in April 2015. Two mobile games were released simultaneously, Cube Escape: The Lake and Cube Escape: Seasons. Each, at first glance, appeared to be part of the current trend for both digital and real-world escape room games, in which you solved puzzles to...
Stardew Valley Creator Is Focused On Finishing His Next Game
29.4.2025
Last year, Stardew Valley received a massive free update because its creator, Eric Barone, didn’t want to stop improving the beloved cozy farming game even eight years after it had launched. But now, he sounds committed to moving on from Stardew Valley for a few years while he finishes up...
Don't Let Steam's Latest Sale Push You Around
28.4.2025
In the wake of the phenomenal success of Steam’s demo-highlighting Next Fests, Valve’s online store began frequently adding genre-specific “fests,” mini-sales on games of a specific niche. This has now reached the point where such sales are happening every single week, and this week’s...