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Splatoon 3's Katana Turns My Squid Into A Ninja, And It Rules
22.9.2022
Splatoon 3 is filled with an assortment of colorful weaponry. From guns that look like pencil sharpeners to paint buckets in the shape of bathtubs, Nintendo’s ink ‘em up has no shortage of personality, especially when it comes to your choice of paint-splattering equipment. But despite all...
Star Citizen Has Now Raised Over Half A Billion Dollars
21.9.2022
Star Citizen, a video game that exists as a Forever Promise, was first revealed to the world back in 2012 via a Kickstarter campaign that raised $2.1 million. In the decade since, through the announcements of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and countless other features and half-baked ideas...
A Phenomenal Anime Like Made In Abyss Deserves A Better Video Game Than This
20.9.2022
Anime adaptations of video games are entering a renaissance of sorts with the critical success of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane, and Castlevania. Unfortunately, if we flip the process around, the same can’t be said for the latest video game adaptation of the dark fantasy anime Made...
Elden Ring Is Being Turned Into A Board Game
20.9.2022
Presumptive GOTY Elden Ring is, in perhaps the least surprising piece of news that I’ll write for this site today, getting a board game adaptation.Read more
Fortnite's New Season Appears To Ape Splatoon Now
19.9.2022
Fortnite, it’s fair to say, is a game built on other people’s ideas. At the height of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ success, in swooped Epic with its pristine, beautifully animated reinterpretation of the battle royale format. Since then, everything from Team Fortress 2's medical bazooka...
Suikoden Fans! It's Back! Suikoden I and II Remasters Due Next Year
16.9.2022
The long-term silence on the Suikoden games has mystified us, you, everyone, for over a decade. But Konami moves in mysterious ways, and last night at the Tokyo Game Show, the company knocked everyone off their chairs by surprise-announcing remasters of the first two games, due next year.Read more
The Yakuza Name Is Officially Dead
16.9.2022
The first Yakuza game was released all the way back in 2006, and the branding was most recently used in 2020's Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Across eight main releases and a number of spin-offs, the name became synonymous with sharp suits, hour-long cutscenes and bikes being smashed into dude’s faces...
Resident Evil 4 Remake Launching On PS4, But Not Xbox One
15.9.2022
Well, here’s a bit of surprise: The new Resident Evil 4 remake—out next year—is in development for PS4. We knew it was coming to next-gen machines, but now it’s also headed to Sony’s older home console. However, it seems this remake will be skipping the Xbox One, possibly due to a lack of power...
The Drippiest Splatoon 3 Players We've Seen So Far
15.9.2022
If you’ve spent any amount of time sauntering around Splatoon 3’s new hub world of Splatsville, then you’ve undoubtedly seen some of the drippiest fashion known in this city of inky chaos. No joke, the fits are so clean—and so bizarre—that I couldn’t help but chronicle the best of the best. From...
Fans Blast Tales Of Symphonia Remaster For Being A Downgrade
15.9.2022
Tales fans rejoiced earlier this week when Bandai Namco announced that one of the best entries in the long-running JRPG series would come to Nintendo Switch, and other modern platforms, by way of a remaster. Now they’re having second thoughts. The publisher has since made it clear that the new...
Splatoon 3's Terrible Online Is Inexcusable At This Point
15.9.2022
Be gentle with me, I’ve been in purgatory. By which I mean, I’ve been playing a lot of Splatoon 3 multiplayer lately, and having unlocked level 10, the ink shooter finally let me glide my way into its quirky ranked modes. Anarchy Battles, as these competitive modes are called, are a good time—if...
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
Both Judgment Games Are Now Available On PC, You Should Play Them
15.9.2022
It was only last year that the future of the Judgment series was looking extremely dicey, courtesy of a legal battle over star Takuya Kimura’s likeness. Looks like that’s all been cleared up, though, because both games aren’t just coming to the PC, they’re already here.Read more
Yakuza Producer Thinks The Series Is Too ‘Underground’ And Violent For Switch
14.9.2022
In a new GameSpot interview, Yakuza executive producer and Ryu Ga Gotoku studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama expressed that he’s hesitant to bring the popular franchise to Nintendo Switch. He explained that the console’s family-friendly image in Japan doesn’t fit with the franchise’s mix of combat...
I'm Hyped For Rune Factory 3 On The Switch And You Should Be Too
14.9.2022
Over the past day, I’ve seen many jokes that there were too many farming games shown off at the Nintendo Direct. Calm down, there were like four. But one announcement made me immediately sit up in my seat: Rune Factory 3 Special is coming to the Nintendo Switch. I’m stoked that Marvelous is finally...
Look At Every Farming Sim We Saw At Nintendo Direct
14.9.2022
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct showcase taught me many things, such as there are many upcoming farming games and people like playing farming games. I am so overwhelmed with the power of this knowledge—the power of the big farming sim in the sky running on children’s imaginations and a Nintendo...
The Best (And Weirdest) Zelda Fan Theories From The Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer
14.9.2022
With information on the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as rare as Coccu’s teeth, every snippet or trailer is pored over, torn apart, and minutely inspected by avid fans, like conspiracists decoding the latest Q-drop. Here are some of our favorite fan-theories from yesterday’s...
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...
Bringing Yakuza's Kiryu Back In Like A Dragon 8 Is Silly
14.9.2022
Last night, we finally got a look at the next mainline game in the Yakuza series, Like a Dragon 8, and the announcement trailer immediately had folks online racing to assemble memes poking fun at the youthful new hairdo of the series’ longtime, stalwart protagonist, Kiryu Kazuma. Although it’s nice...
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