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Wait, The Free-To-Play Pokémon Puzzle Game Is Not Free On Switch?
22.7.2025
As is often the case with Pokémon Presents, The Pokémon Company made some announcements during its showcase this morning that initially sounded like cool and fun new things but gradually got worse as the reality became clear. Pokémon Friends, a new puzzle game in which you solve old-fashioned...
Here's What Amiibos Can Do For You In Donkey Kong Bananza
21.7.2025
While some might argue that Nintendo hasn’t ever fully capitalized on the potential of amiibos, they’re still wonderful and charming collectibles for fans to geek out over. Forget those naysayers, too. Amiibos do still have uses in many games, including the brand new Donkey Kong Bananza. And in...
Ubisoft Shareholder Confronts Boss About 'Woke' Assassin's Creed
18.7.2025
Shareholder meetings are usually pretty boring affairs, but in video games, you sometimes get players themselves showing up. They buy a piece of the company, and instead of complaining online like everyone else, they get to ask questions directly to the CEO’s face once a year. That’s what happened...
Donkey Kong Bananza Fans Are Having Way Too Much Fun With Its Artist Mode
18.7.2025
Donkey Kong Bananza is a 3D action platformer where you can dig holes, build bridges, and experiment in other ways as you burrow through various whimsical worlds on your way toward the planet core. Nintendo was so happy with its deformation tech that it decided to spin it off into an entirely...
Persona 5 Gacha Studio Acknowledges Angry Feedback, Promises Response
17.7.2025
Persona 5: The Phantom X has faced a sudden barrage of criticism in the wake of its western launch. The team at Black Wings Game Studio was met with backlash after it was announced the gacha game would be accelerating its story rollout to catch up to the original Chinese version, and fans...
Assassin's Creed TV Show Announced 5-Years Ago Finally Moving Forward At Netflix
17.7.2025
We’re getting flooded with TV adaptations of popular video game franchises these days, but Assassin’s Creed is a better fit than most. Announced over three years ago, the Netflix show based on the long-running Ubisoft series is finally moving forward, the companies announced today, though...
Original Crash Lead Programmer Says N. Sane Trilogy 'Completely Botched How Jumping Works'
17.7.2025
As is being discussed over on Resetera, a LinkedIn post from Naughty Dog co-founder and lead programmer on the original Crash Bandicoot from 1996, Andrew (Andy) Gavin, dives into a critical difference between the original box-bashing bandicoot experience and Vicarious Visions’ 2017 remakes, which...
Subnautica 2 Studio Founders Break Silence On Controversial Delay And Firings In New Lawsuit
16.7.2025
Weeks after their sudden and mysterious dismissal from Unknown Worlds by parent-publisher Krafton, the Subnautica 2 studio’s cofounders have filed a lawsuit for breach of contract. At the center of the complaint are allegations that Krafton tried to sabotage the Early Access release for one...
The Studio Behind Oblivion Remastered, One Of 2025's Biggest Hits, Is Reportedly Laying Off 300 People
16.7.2025
Virtuos, the support team behind big games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater remake, is the latest in a sad line of developers releasing a successful project and being rewarded with layoffs. The studio is reportedly cutting about...
You'll Need Lots Of Gold In Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma To Keep Villages Running Smoothly
16.7.2025
Even when you’re able to ride a flying dragon and romance goddesses, money still makes the world go round. Thankfully, in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, earning money from any one of your many villages proves approachable with the right plan. Whether you’re solely focusing on farming, grinding...
The Zelda Movie's Lead Actors Have Been Revealed By Nintendo
16.7.2025
Nintendo and Miyamoto have just announced the two lead actors in 2027's live-action Zelda movie. We now know that both lead roles will be played by British actors, with Link portrayed by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio) and Bo Bragason (Three Girls) appearing as Zelda .Read more
The Second-Best Deus Ex Is Stupid Cheap (And DRM-Free), But Hurry
15.7.2025
We may never get another Deus Ex game featuring Elias Toufexis’ lovely voice as Adam Jensen again, but right now you can snag Human Revolution, the debut of our sunglass-wearing badass cyborg, for less than five bucks and, since it’s on GOG, there’s no DRM, meaning you can back up copies of...
Cyberpunk 2077's New Patch May Fix One Of The Game's Biggest Annoyances Five Years Later
15.7.2025
CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m...
Two Years Later, Starfield Still Hasn't Given Me A Reason To Care
15.7.2025
Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I’ve heard of the game’s singular expansion since its 2023 release–from...
After Two Decades, One Of The Stars Of Kingdom Hearts Is Finally Playing The Games
15.7.2025
The original Kingdom Hearts came to the PlayStation 2 in 2002 when David Gallagher was 17 years old. The actor, now 40, has played deuteragonist and noted “sexy guy” who “the gamer girls” go crazy for, Riku, for more than half his lifetime, but somehow hasn’t ever played the Disney RPGs. Gallagher...
A Creepy, Lore-Breaking Door In The Oblivion Remaster Has Finally Been Fixed
15.7.2025
The latest Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch makes a lot of changes and tweaks, but one very interesting and important change involving a lore-breaking door wasn’t listed in the lengthy patch notes published earlier this month. Read more
Getting Donkey Kong Bananza To Run At 60FPS Was Important For Nintendo
15.7.2025
Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 exclusive, Donkey Kong Bananza, launches later this week and will finally deliver that big single-player binge-worthy game that the hybrid console currently lacks. When you finally get your hands on the new game, you’ll be destroying everything at 60FPS, and that’s...
9-Year-Old Visual Novel Runs Just Fine But Apple Is Booting It From The App Store Anyway
15.7.2025
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s...
Persona 5 Gacha Players Review Bomb The Game After Accelerated Schedule Comes With Worse Rewards
15.7.2025
When it was announced that Persona 5: The Phantom X would be accelerating its story content rollout for the West to catch up to China, which has had the game for over a year, players were wary. As a gacha game with timed events and currency, The Phantom X is a game in which narrative developments...
Steam's Automation Fest Has Begun: Here Are Our Top Picks
15.7.2025
Steam’s “Fests” are an almost weekly event now, growing ever more niche as the behemothic game store tries to think up another category to highlight. Now that the Steam Summer Sale is over, the board is cleared for another fest, and this time it’s Automation. Which is to say, all those...