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The Trippiest Shooter Of The Year Is Now On Sale
23.9.2024
Of all the games I’ve played this year, Children of the Sun is far and away the most hostile. This trippy shooter follows The Girl, a survivor of The Cult’s abuses, as she takes her revenge on them and The Leader. Yes, those terms are all capitalized properly, Children of the Sun sees fit to give...
‘TwitchCon Is Very Queer’: How The Streaming Convention Strives For Inclusivity
23.9.2024
I’m in the Glitch Theater at the San Diego Convention Center during TwitchCon 2024, watching a drag artist dressed as Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head lip-sync to a nu-metal song on stage. The crowd is a mix of high-profile streamers like Central Committee and KaceyTron, smaller Twitch affiliates,...
Report: The Newest Green Lantern Is Everyone's Favorite Friday Night Lights Coach
23.9.2024
Hold onto your baseball caps because Eric Taylor, AKA the coach from Friday Night Lights, AKA Kyle Chandler, is going to star as Hal Jordan in a Green Lantern series for HBO, according toHollywood Reporter and Deadline. The in-development show, called “Lanterns,” will apparently have a darker...
It Is Possible To Respec In Visions Of Mana, But Not Until The Late Game
23.9.2024
Visions of Mana looks cute and casual on the surface, but underneath lies some surprisingly deep team building. Each of the five characters can eventually equip one of eight classes, each with their own Elemental Plot invested in with Elemental Points. Unfortunately, even though spells learned...
How To Find All 3 Endings In Silent Hill 2 Tribute Hollowbody
23.9.2024
Hollowbody is a short survival horror game that takes you on a panicked run through what’s left of 22nd-century England, 60 years after a terrorist attack infected its west coast with an unknown biological agent. As smuggler Mica Holloway, you have less than 20 hours to find your partner Sasha...
Sony's Next State Of Play Showcase Promises Updates On 20 Games
23.9.2024
The next PlayStation showcase is this week, Sony has confirmed. The latest State of Play presentation will kick off on Tuesday with updates on over a dozen games across PlayStation 5 and PS VR 2 as the company caps off a busy month filled with Astro Bot, the PS5 Pro reveal, and the 30th Anniversary...
It’s Never A Bad Time To Grab Helldivers 2, Especially When It’s On Sale
23.9.2024
When we get to the fast-approaching end of 2024, and folks start talking about what ought to be crowned Game of the Year, lots of people are inevitably going to say Helldivers 2. Since its release in February, the third-person co-op shooter has been one of the most heavily played games of the year....
Legendary Director John Carpenter Is Here To Remind You That Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Rules
23.9.2024
Somehow, October is right around the corner, which means 2024 is rapidly approaching its end. After the whirlwind of amazing releases that was 2023, some thought this year would be relatively slow on the game front, and yet game after good game keep dropping. That’s why it might come as a shock...
Following AI Cheating Controversy, Pokémon Announces Winners Of Card Contest
23.9.2024
Each year, The Pokémon Company holds a competition to find a new illustrator for their Pokémon TCG cards. Only in the last couple of years has this been opened to entrants from outside of Japan, and with that has come controversy. However, after a tumultuous period, the finalists for this year’s...
God Of War Ragnarök’s PC Port Is A Worse Version Of An Excellent Game
23.9.2024
I’ve only put a few hours into God of War: Ragnarök’s PC port. I was hoping this would be a chance for me to reassess a game I probably played under the wrong circumstances (rushing to the end because I had to know what happened). Unfortunately, after playing a bit of the PlayStation powerhouse...
Nintendo Spent A Year Working On What Essentially Sounds Like Zelda Maker
23.9.2024
It’s been almost a decade since we got the first Super Mario Maker on Wii U and 3DS, and fans have always wondered if Nintendo might give the level editor gameplay treatment to one of its other major franchises, like, say, Zelda. Well, it turns out that the Switch maker actually did experiment with...
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Devs Already Tossing Around Story Ideas For DLC And A Sequel
23.9.2024
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 has only delved into one small slice of the tabletop source material’s sprawling grimdark sci-fi fantasy universe, and fans are eager to know where it might head next. While the developers at Saber Interactive haven’t confirmed exactly what Space Marine’s next chapters...
Everything You Need To Know About Silent Hill 2-Inspired Horror Hollowbody
23.9.2024
2024 has been an uncommonly good year for horror gaming, with releases like Still Wakes the Deep, The Casting of Frank Stone, Crow Country, Withering Rooms, Pacific Drive, and the forthcoming Silent Hill 2 and Slitterhead. Now there’s also Hollowbody, an indie survival horror adventure from...
Marvel's Thunderbolts Teases Shadowy Chaos In First Trailer
23.9.2024
After previously being revealed behind closed doors at SDCC 2024, Marvel has finally released the first big teaser for the next chapter in the MCU, Thunderbolts, and it looks like a promising banner under which to marshal some of the more unwieldy characters and loose threads its had hanging...
PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection Prices Have Started To Leak
23.9.2024
Pre-orders for the limited-edition PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection don’t start going live until later this week, but in the meantime we’re already starting to get a better idea of how much some of the consoles and accessories will cost thanks to a new leak. The prices don’t seem that bad...
31 Terrific Movies That Are Perfect For Spooky Season
23.9.2024
Can you feel that chill in the air? Are the trees in your neighborhood shifting shades from verdant greens to crisp reds and oranges? Notice that the sun is setting earlier? Though these are all markers of the beginning of fall AKA the beginning of my seasonal depression, they are also, gratefully...
Beloved Skyrim YouTuber Grandma Shirley Is Finally Retiring At Age 88
23.9.2024
Shirley Curry is one of the internet’s greatest heroines. The grand dame of YouTube has been making Skyrim videos for nine years, since she was a more youthful 79-year-old, recording an extraordinary 2,300 videos in that time. Mixing long-running in-game series with short, charming vlogs, Grandma...
There's Lots To Be Said About Dragon Age: The Veilguard, But Did We Enjoy It?
22.9.2024
Among our coverage of Dragon Age: The Veilguard this week was our official preview of the game, a deep dive into how BioWare has avoided conforming to a single canon, a look at how factions affect relationships throughout your protagonist’s journey, and, of course, our reactions after having full...
We’re Still Deep Into Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree
22.9.2024
Many games have entered the Game of the Year conversation since Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree became a frontrunner in June. There’s Astro Bot, which some find delightful and others find disgraceful; Black Myth: Wukong, which earns its Soulslike distinction while maintaining merits unique to...
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, As Told By Steam Reviews
22.9.2024
You can’t go online this month without stumbling upon something Warhammer 40,000-related, thanks to the immense popularity of developer Saber Interactive’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. It’s an absolute achievement in entertainment, with thrilling horde mechanics, enticing three-play co-op,...