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Rose & Camellia, A Game About Ladies Slapping Each Other, Is Getting A Switch Port
15.9.2022
I can’t believe I’ve had to reach this far back into the archives for this, but anyone who was reading the site back in 2008 (!) might remember a game called Rose & Camellia, which was kinda like Punch-Out!, only if everyone was straight out of a Jane Austen novel.Read more
Oh No, Valve Built A Steam Deck For Giants
14.9.2022
The Tokyo Game Show begins tomorrow, just as Valve is on the cusp of launching its wildly successful Steam Deck in Asian markets. What better way to flex than by building a super-enormous version of the portable PC to loom large over the show floor?Read more
GameStop Rewards Employees For Sticking Around With 50-Cent Raise
14.9.2022
Last month, GameStop announced new stock bonuses for store managers and hourly raises for other employees. It seemed like some relief was finally coming for the staff, who have been through so much these last few years, all while watching investors profit off unprecedented meme stock hijinks. Over...
Sega Announces Another New Yakuza Game, Drops First Trailer For Yakuza 8
14.9.2022
Sega just announced two new Yakuza games that are on the way: Yakuza 8, the next mainline game in the series (and one which we’d already seen and knew about), and Like a Dragon Gaiden, an all-new release which stars series stalwart Kazuma Kiryu. That makes this three Yakuza announcements in...
Sci-Fi NFT comic book project lays the foundation for CCG development
14.9.2022
DAO members vote and decide on the future of the story by minting, collecting and crafting panels and pages of comic book issues
Team Ninja's New Game Is A 19th-Century 'Action RPG'
14.9.2022
Announced today during PlayStation’s showcase event, Rise of the Ronin is the latest game from the studio that has previously brought us Ninja Gaiden and Nioh.Read more
Oh Man, We're Actually Getting A Samurai Yakuza Game
14.9.2022
Holy shit. It was just two months ago that I was asking Sega, very nicely, to maybe think about bringing the Yakuza series’ historical spin-off games to the West. Now, today, Sega only went and announced that one of them is indeed on the way, and has been remade for modern hardware to boot.Read more
Let’s Remember Some Terrible Square Enix Video Game Names
13.9.2022
Octopath Traveler. Triangle Strategy. Forspoken. These are just a few of Square Enix’s weirder game titles. But today, the Final Fantasy publisher reminded the world of one of its all-time-greats: Various Daylife. The iOS JRPG now has a Switch port. It came out today and it’s still called, well...
Microsoft Announces Arguably Better GoldenEye For Xbox Right When Nintendo Does
13.9.2022
Rumors of a GoldenEye 007 remaster have been making the rounds for a while now. Today, it was finally revealed in the weirdest way possible. While Nintendo promoted a port with online play for its Switch Online Expansion Pack during a big September Direct, Microsoft quietly revealed a better...
Square Enix Shutting Down PS5's Worst Game Before It's Even A Year Old
13.9.2022
Today, publisher Square Enix and developer Platinum Games finally did what everyone had been predicting from the start: they announced Babylon’s Fall will shut down within its first year. While I’m hardly surprised, it still sucks. People paid $60 for this game just six months ago, and less than...
Xbox’s New Test Dashboard Is Heavy On The Game Pass
13.9.2022
Xbox owners who are part of the company’s Insiders program may have noticed something different about their consoles this week. Rolling out as a test of potential UI changes coming to the console next year, Xbox Insiders will see a new home screen that overhauls the user experience. Now, with...
Case study: muscling The Riftbreaker's DLC to success
12.9.2022
Some great learnings for a popular DLC to an already-popular game
GameFi fundraising jumps 135% in August, but is still down from June: Report
12.9.2022
Web3 games and metaverse projects have raised $748 million in funds last month
Marvel's Captain America X Black Panther Game: 4 New Things We Just Learned
12.9.2022
Disney’s big fan expo last weekend had an entire gaming block in which the entertainment company revealed the first trailer for a new Marvel game. But that was just the first glimpse. Later on, D23 also held a chat between Skydance developers Amy Hennig and Marc Bernardin, who, while vague about...
1995 Gargoyles Game Is Getting A Remaster
12.9.2022
Disney had a big event last week that, I’ll be honest, I let wash over me because announcements like Avatar games and Alien games that aren’t an Isolation sequel aren’t really for me. One thing they didn’t really cover, though, and which I wish they had done in a lot more detail, was the excellent...
How GameFi contributes to the growth of crypto and NFTs
10.9.2022
The GameFi sector has achieved unprecedented growth over the past couple of years and is attracting investors
Lowkey, This Nintendo Switch Mickey Mouse Game Was The Coolest Thing At Disney’s Showcase
10.9.2022
Revealed today during the somewhat underwhelming Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, Illusion Island is a new 2D, animated platformer being developed by DLaLa Studios and which seems to be heavily inspired by the recent (and fantastic) animated Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. And weirdly, this...
The Pokémon Card Game's New Expansion Dramatically Changes Everything
9.9.2022
Today is the official launch of the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s Lost Origin expansion, which might be the penultimate set for the Sword and Shield (SWSH) era before next year sees new packs based on Scarlet and Violet. And it marks the return of the Lost Zone, the very occasional mechanic that...
Report: New Marvel Game Stars Captain America And Black Panther...In World War II
9.9.2022
Today’s Disney & Marvel Games Showcase, due to stream at 4 p.m. ET, is rumored to bring us news of Amy Hennig’s of Uncharted fame’s latest unnamed game. The news was originally reported by MCU Status, and further corroborated by Eurogamer, a news site with a good track record, the Marvel...
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game
9.9.2022
I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ …
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...