People are always asking, “When is the next Nintendo Direct??” And for the next few days, the appropriate answer is, “Which one?” That’s because Nintendo is going big this September with two Nintendo Direct showcases airing on back-to-back days. Outside of game-specific presentations like the…
A new Nintendo Switch 2 leak has revealed a new Super Smash Bros. game and the return of Nintendogs. With a new Nintendo Direct set to go down on September 9, there is a decent chance one or both of these new Switch 2 games will be announced at this Nintendo Direct, but the leak in question does…
Players on Roblox really like to stand out. Perfecting your avatar’s look is a rite of passage on the platform. Users are no longer limited by the blocky avatars of old as more customization tools and unique Marketplace items have become available. An entire economy has sprung up for creators that…
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has a confession to make: Valve intentionally leaked its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer. The Half-Life and Portal veteran spilled the beans on the studio's past unconventional marketing tactics in a new video uploaded to his YouTube channel (via Ars Technica). Based on…
I never expected to be moved so much by a simple platformer game that I tried out at Gamescom, but this ended up bringing up a long-forgotten childhood memory that I had completely forgotten about. Cursed Clouds 64 is a retro 3D platformer where you play as a cat magician who travels through…
Apple TVSilo Season 3’s finale changed everything. For the past nine episodes of the Apple TV sci-fi series, the action has been divided between the post-apocalyptic silo where we’ve spent the past two seasons and the “Before Times,” an unspecified time in the pre-apocalypse that has slowly…
BB not included I can take or leave a majority of Death Stranding's story (BB forever, though), but I gotta give it to Kojima: delivering stuff is fun. There's a genuine complexity to the process of deciding what to pack and how you pack it, making the simple act of delivering something like a…
Insomniac Games has cleared the air after a new trailer for Marvel's Wolverine had fans confusing Lady Deathstrike for Psylocke. If you thought the launch trailer for the PlayStation 5-exclusive video game would come and go without controversy, I've got bad news. Despite coming in at a little less…
· · Dice A Million recently left early access and launched on all major platforms with a major content update. Dice A Million is a roguelike deckbuilder built around rolling dice. The game first launched on Steam and PC Game Pass in February. Since then, it has sold over 70,000 copies and has over…
Cyclops simulator Do I need to explain how Cyclops from the X-Men's powers work? I'm going to anyway just in case. He shoots beams from his eyes! More or less, I think it's technically energy from a punch dimension? I'm not an X-Men nerd though, so correct me in the comments. Main point is, he can…
At the Game Developers Conference earlier this year, Aggro Crab developer Nick Kaman told me that he thinks there's a lot of meat left on the bone when it comes to co-op "friendslop" games, and that he wants to keep working in the space. Aggro Crab is still down to zig and not zag, though, and will…
The Blood of Dawnwalker has now launched, and it’s hiding a hilarious early ending that is most definitely the quickest and easiest way to roll credits on the title. Developed by new studio Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker centres around Coen who resides within Vale Sangora, a region ruled by…
Sometimes, it’s the weird as hell items that make your home shine. This list is packed with strange, surprising, and seriously handy products under $30 that somehow manage to be both offbeat and totally essential. Scroll on and get ready to meet the home goods that you’ll find yourself using daily.…
Xbox Game Pass subscribers aren’t happy. As said subscribers will know, it’s not been a flagship year for the subscription service. As we have documented in the past, the games haven’t been very good. They’ve been so lackluster that subscribers have been threatening to cancel their subscriptions…
Dwarf Fortress is a bit like caviar—not everyone's into it, but the people who are describe their experiences with it like a religious awakening. But the game's legendary co-creator, Tarn Adams, didn't even know it had a big following for many years, as he told PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens in a recent…
Yuri Lowenthal, Insomniac’s Spider-Man voice actor, says he wants Deadpool to appear in a future game and has repeatedly pitched the idea. Although the quote comes from an interview years ago, a newly repackaged short of Lowenthal’s comments has started circulating. Yuri Lowenthal Wants Deadpool in…
Insomniac Games is reportedly still working on its unannounced Marvel’s Venom project, according to a new update from insider NateTheHate. Venom was introduced in the second Spider-Man game from Insomniac Games. Unlike the comics, where Venom is typically portrayed as the malevolent Symbiote that…
Top Discussions What are we all playing this weekend? Miami-Dade police outraged by proposals to turn parts of Miami into GTA 6, saying that Rockstar's game embodies what they "work every single day to prevent" Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip,…
First reported by Dexerto, former Jagex employee Andrew "Mod Jed" Lakeman has been sentenced to three years in prison (suspended for two years) for using dev tools to remove items from player accounts, then selling them online. An investigation found that Lakeman had earned more than $400,000…
"I don't think we can get in trouble for that now" My only experience of Left 4 Dead 2 is a handful of sessions in my youth where a friend handed me a controller (me, a person whose shooter experience extended to Ratchet and Clank at the time), told me nothing, and let the chaos unfold. I did not…
Xbox is giving away a game of the year winner for $3.74 to Xbox One, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X users. The game in question isn’t available on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S natively, but the Xbox One version is playable on the pair of newer Xbox consoles via backward compatability. That…
After settling down in Corvo Bianco at the end of the Blood and Wine expansion in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we all assumed that this would be Geralt's journey's end. Through nine books, three games, and two expansions to said works, we've long followed the White Wolf through the Continent as he…
The Blood of Dawnwalker has reached a major sales milestone, with the new action RPG officially selling more than 1 million copies worldwide. Rebel Wolves confirmed the news on social media. The Blood of Dawnwalker is the debut intellectual property from Rebel Wolves, a studio composed of former…
Single-player RPG and new IP The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold 1 million copies just two days after its launch, publisher Bandai Namco and developer Rebel Wolves have announced. Official social media accounts for the first-time developer's new game confirmed the news with a celebratory graphic…