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Eight Terrifying Games And Series To Pick Up During Xbox’s Halloween Sale
24.10.2024
There’s no need to fret if you’re yet to make solid Halloween plans. If you don’t have a party or costume lined up, you can still find a theater doing a screening on the night, or if you’re more inclined to stay indoors, maybe it’s worth perusing sales for great horror games. Xbox is hosting a sale...
Final Fantasy VII's Biggest Skip Ever Lets You 'Save' Aerith Without Cheats
24.10.2024
There’s been a massive breakthrough in the world of Final Fantasy VII. Not the new remakes on PlayStation 5, but the original 1997 game. A new skip makes it possible to jump right to Aerith’s death, earlier than players had ever expected. She’ll still die in the pivotal scene, but players can keep...
The Pokémon Leak Has Revealed A Scrapped Form Of One Of Its Most Controversial Monsters
24.10.2024
Earlier this month, Pokémon developer Game Freak suffered a massive data breach and ever since, details about and assets for projects new and old have been trickling out onto the internet. These have ranged from unused Pokémon who never saw the light of day, to information on upcoming games like...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, As Told By Steam Reviews
23.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has been out for a few weeks now and it seems to be going over well with fans, who’ve been waiting a very long time for a new fighting game based on the hugely popular anime. The recently released fighter is the first installment in the long-dormant Budokai Tenkaichi...
UFO 50's Retro Gaming Masterpieces, As Told By Steam Reviews
23.10.2024
Do you fondly remember playing 8-bit adventures on the NES and original Sega consoles? Titles like Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and Mega Man 2, all from the late ‘80s, provided a unique gaming experience that’s hard to replicate today with modern technology. Hard, sure, but it’s possible—as we’ve...
Play This Wonderfully Stylish Mystery Game As We Close Out The Halloween Season
23.10.2024
It’s nearly Halloween, which means that costumes are receiving their finishing touches and folks are likely burning through their catalog of horror games and movies. If I may, I’d like to make another recommendation to add to the pile, and it’s a short one with wonderfully dreadful vibes....
The 6 Best Accessories To Improve Your Time In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
23.10.2024
One of the new features you’ll find in Zelda’s journey in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is an accessories system, letting you equip trinkets that grant you passive effects. The best of these can decrease incoming damage, or increase rupee drops, but not every accessory is particularly...
8 Thrilling Horror Games To Get During PlayStation’s Halloween Sale
23.10.2024
With just days until Halloween, now is the time to go all in on the spooky mood of the season. When it comes to gaming, the best way to do that is by getting scared half to death with some truly frightful horror games. Luckily, PlayStation has just the thing to help with that in the form of a...
The Latest Pokémon Skateboards Are Gorgeous And Selling Out Fast
23.10.2024
Pokémon’s Bear Walker collaboration remains one of the best merchandising deals the franchise has done. The (pricey) skateboards are some of the nicest pieces of high-quality merchandise you can find under the Pokémon umbrella. Despite their steep cost, they must be selling well because The Pokémon...
6 Terrifying Horror Movies To Watch If You Loved Silent Hill 2
22.10.2024
Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 remake is a damn respectable retelling of a horror masterpiece. It’s grim, it’s moody, it’s empathetic to the very human atrocities at its dark heart. It is also, blessedly, pretty short by modern standards. Meaning, thankfully, you won’t be spending the entire month trying...
7 Things To Know Before Starting Sonic X Shadow Generations
22.10.2024
Sonic X Shadow Generations is out now for those who bought the game’s digital deluxe edition, and will be out for everyone else on Friday, October 25. The package includes a remaster of 2011’s Sonic Generations and a brand-new campaign starring Shadow the Hedgehog. Y’all, Shadow Generations is...
Smash Bros. Director Wraps Up His YouTuber Career With A Shocking Reveal
22.10.2024
It’s been two and a half years since Masahiro Sakurai, best known for directing Smash Bros. Ultimate and the other entries in Nintendo’s hit platform fighting series, took a break from development to create a YouTube channel dedicated to educating fans and players about how games are made....
Silent Hill 2 Remake, As Told By Steam Reviews
22.10.2024
We’re embarking on something of a renaissance regarding horror game remakes, with the likes of Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, Resident Evil 4, and Dead Space leading the charge toward greatness for the genre. But there’s a new kid on the block, thanks to developer Bloober Team. In a move that should...
The Metaphor: ReFantazio Party Members, Ranked From Good To Great
21.10.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ new fantasy RPG in the style of Persona, has one of the most memorable parties in a game in recent memory. From the disillusioned noble Strohl to the songstress superstar Junah, Metaphor has a truly weird group of goofballs who are gathering together to try and make...
Castlevania Gets Massive Steam Sale Just In Time For Halloween
21.10.2024
Of all the spooky monsters that get the spotlight during Halloween, my favorite is by far vampires. Since the modern vampire was codified as a mix of taboo sexual desire, horrific gore, and sharp social commentary these creatures of the night have made a name for themselves in film, books, and—of...
The 6 Best Smoothies In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
21.10.2024
With The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Princess Zelda herself finally takes the reins of this adventure through Hyrule, and with this major change to the experience comes a variety of other new mechanics and features that ensure her journey feels unique to her. And one of those features is...
Vampire Survivors Getting Huge Castlevania DLC Just In Time For Halloween
21.10.2024
Vampire Survivors, a not so thinly veiled homage to Castlevania, is finally bringing its unofficial source material out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Ode to Castlevania will bring the Konami franchise’s characters and weapons to the hit bullet-hell roguelite on Halloween in its biggest...
This Neat Trick Will Recover Your MP In Metaphor: ReFantazio
21.10.2024
Like Persona before it, Metaphor: ReFantazio has a major limiting factor to discourage you from exploring too many dungeons in one sitting: MP (mana points). If you’re anything like me, you’ll get annoyed at how few opportunities there are to regain MP, particularly early in the game. MP fuels...
Sonic X Shadow Generations: The Kotaku Review
21.10.2024
People will no doubt call Sonic X Shadow Generations a “love letter” or “tribute” to Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic’s brooding rival who debuted back in 2001’s Sonic Adventure 2. But as a person who grew up seeing the black-and-red hedgehog as the emotional center of the franchise, it feels more like...
I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
20.10.2024
I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wasn’t going to continue watching because...