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Disgaea 6 Is Not Looking Great On Switch
25.6.2021
Earlier this year when I saw Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny was coming to Switch over the summer, I was pumped. There are plenty of smaller tactical RPGs on the portable console, but few have the storied history, number-crunching depth, and healthy budget of Nippon Ichi Software’s Disgaea series....
Shadowrun Trilogy Is Free, And Amazing
25.6.2021
To cap off its 2021 summer sale, GOG is giving away all three games of Harebrained Schemes’ Shadowrun series for free on PC. You have until the end of the weekend to claim them.Read more
U.S. Healthcare Is So Trash This Game’s Localization Needed Changing
25.6.2021
The American healthcare system is so uniquely terrible among developed countries that a localization team translating a recent indie game had to completely replace a line about crowdfunding an emergency medical procedure because it wouldn’t make sense to players outside of the United States.Read...
The Nintendo Switch Gets A Train Controller In Japan
25.6.2021
Train simulators are cool. They’re cool for a number of reasons, including trains are excellent. But, perhaps most importantly, those sims don’t only allow players the chance to conduct them, but also buy rad controllers.Read more
Rapper The Game facing $12M judgment along with execs in ICO case
25.6.2021
The Game is facing a $12 million judgment for his role in an allegedly unregistered initial coin offering
Hotline Miami Recreated In Nintendo's Game Builder Garage
25.6.2021
Hotline Miami is actually available on the Switch, so if you want to play the real thing you are more than welcome to do so, but just for today let’s look at this killer recreation of the game by yeddow333 using Nintendo’s new game-creation suite, Game Builder Garage.Read more
Sonic’s New 'Best Friend' Snuck Into Yesterday's Symphony
25.6.2021
I’ve heard tell that a lot of folks had a great time with yesterday’s symphonic celebration of the Sonic the Hedgehog series’ 30th anniversary. What’s better than listening to hours of iconic video game music? Maybe listening to hours of iconic video game music while a character you created pals...
Ubisoft's Avatar Game Will Actually Flex Your PS5 And Xbox Series X
25.6.2021
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is making use of the new PS5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware to create a more lush, organic-feeling world that you can quickly fly around in, its developers said in a new interview today. Even if the quests still turn out to still be familiar Ubisoft fare, the open world...
Borderlands 3 Adds Crossplay, Increases Level Cap
24.6.2021
Borderlands 3 might be nearly two years old, but Gearbox is still supporting the popular first-person looter-shooter. A large update today adds crossplay, increases the level cap, and brings a few quality of life changes and improvements too.Read more
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Adds Extra In-Game Content Warnings
24.6.2021
Doki Doki Literature Club, a pleasant game about adorable anime teens learning about life and love, has many issues. Serious issues that you might want to be warned about as you play through the otherwise bright and cheery visual novel. For the release of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus on PC...
Old Flier Invites Kids To Do Nintendo Crimes
24.6.2021
Ever wanted the likes of Donkey Kong Jr., Excitebike, Popeye, Pac-Man, Galaga, and many more classics on one single game cartridge for the low, low price of $24 plus shipping and handling? Time-travel back to 1990 and this technological “gray market” wonder could be yours.Read more
Halo Infinite Release Date Narrowed Down To 'A Few Weeks,' Phil Spencer Says
24.6.2021
Although a firm Halo Infinite release date has yet to be set, internal talks at Microsoft surrounding when to launch the game have narrowed from the months-long holiday 2021 release window to a handful of weeks, Xbox head Phil Spencer explained during a recent appearance on the Dropped Frames...
Mario Golf: Super Rush Isn't Afraid To Get Weird
24.6.2021
Mario Golf: Super Rush is Camelot’s sixth addition to the Mario Golf series, but this time it’s not just about taking turns smacking a ball across expensive-looking lawns.Read more
The Sims 4 Is Hosting An In-Game Music Festival Now
24.6.2021
The Sims series has partnered with nearly 500 musical artists since 2004 to record their popular songs in the game’s adorable gibberish language, Simlish. Now The Sims 4 is taking pop Simlish music to the next level with Sims Sessions, an in-game music festival running from June 29 through July...
Waiting game: Why Friday’s $6B in Bitcoin and Ethereum expiries may not move the market
24.6.2021
Traders are looking for BTC and ETH to make a decisive move ahead of Friday's $6 billion in quarterly futures and options expiries, but what does back-tested data show?
Pokémon GO Fest 2021 Will Feature Every Legendary Pokémon In The Game
24.6.2021
In an unprecedented move, this year’s Pokémon GO Fest’s raids will give players a shot at capturing every legendary Pokémon that’s ever appeared in the game, helping trainers fill out some of the rarest gaps in their Pokédexes.Read more
Nintendo Makes Revisiting Classic Metroid Games A Huge Hassle
24.6.2021
As hype builds for the next main entry in the Metroid series, people looking to play some of the previous games are dusting off old Nintendo consoles or resorting to emulators. Read more
Windows 11 Wants To Make Your PC Feel More Like An Xbox
24.6.2021
During Microsoft’s Windows 11 reveal event this morning, Xbox executive Sarah Bond took to the stream to talk about how the latest version of the operating system will bring powerful tools from the Xbox Series X/S to PC, including auto HDR and the super-speedy DirectStorage API.Read more
Why Video Game Press Events Sometimes Go Horribly Wrong
24.6.2021
With the recent apology from CI Games, the studio creating Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 2 who organized a particularly offensive press event, it’s cast my mind back a couple of decades, to the era when I would often go on such trips. It got me thinking about how easily games journalists can...
Military Shooter Launch Event Turns Into A Racist Mess
24.6.2021
An event organized to celebrate the release of military shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 had journalists and influencers take part in a mock training program based around killing “enemies” and “bad guys” who were dressed up to appear Arab, according to a report published last night by...