The newest trailer for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield revealed a new ability called ‘Gigantamax,’ in addition to several new gym leaders in exciting in-game battle footage reminiscent of Pokken Tournament and the earlier Pokemon Stadium for the Nintendo...
“What in the what is that title?” You might be asking. Easter eggs can be pretty weird. It’s part of the nature of the concept—easter eggs typically break the fourth wall and if you’re going to break open the...
After the new One Punch Man game was revealed to be “coming soon,” nobody expected to hear much more about the game for at least a few months. And then, this week, Bandai Namco ended up dropping its first...
The subject of the mind has gone through a lot of consistent metaphors in art: spider webs, computers, and, often, the endless expanses of the ocean. But despite the constant use of those metaphors, each one makes a potent...
The noir genre (think LA Noire) has been around since at least the 1920s—the black and white mysteries have a bit of action, a bit of romance but always feature a witty detective on the edge. It can all...
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town was one of the greatest Harvest Moon games and farm simulators of all time. This was one of the games that laid the groundwork for modern genre titles like Stardew Valley. And now...
Some games get released in Japan or the US and never make it over to the other side of the pond. Unless there’s enough fan support to make a publisher bring it over. Umihara Kawase Fresh! will become the...
Humble Bundles’ $12-a-month subscription service will net its customers two new games come August, Surviving Mars and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The games will cost no more than the price of the month’s subscription. Humble Bundle is a monthly service...
Good news for Gears of War fans: You will be able to download some of the game before its official release. And the developers will even let you play it too. The fifth installment of the Gears of War...
The developers behind popular medieval hack and slash game, Mordhau, were accused of racism and sexism this week after it was revealed they had plans for a ‘toggle’ feature that would disable female and non-white characters. In the same...
Tactics games haven’t changed much in the last thirty years. Gameplay has always been a bit like advanced chess with variable maps and pieces. Tactics games are a bit like mom’s spaghetti, in fact—it’s a simple recipe, but it...
Indie puzzle games have always been a bit of a wild card. Developers need to nail that perfect combination of innovative freshness, so characteristic of indie titles, while still maintaining the familiarity of a traditional puzzle-solving game. And there...
Online hacker Austin Thompson will go to prison for 27 months after admitting to US Attorneys that he was behind several Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Sony Online Entertainment in 2013 and 2014. Thompson was a member...
The indie classic exploration game Gone Home is now available as a physical copy for the Nintendo Switch—that’s right, now you can order the game and get it delivered in the mail, the old-fashioned way. Although Gone Home was...
