There are countless attempts in gaming history to force a mascot. Several developers have crafted their own lead character with the intention of having them break out with the broader gaming audience, only for the game to fail to spark the kind of excitement needed to make a character into an icon.…
Nintendo has one of the most extensive gaming libraries, including some of the biggest names like The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and Metroid. Even outside of these, there are series that incredibly acclaimed and have huge followings. Then, beneath these, there are other series that are not as well…
History’s most ingenious inventions were often seen as a little weird when they were first introduced. As it turns out, you often need to think outside of the box to solve long-standing problems. These wacky popular things have over 4.5-star ratings because they’re clever as hell, proving that…
Two classic PC games are now free for some GOG users. More precisely, free for GOG users with an Amazon Prime subscription. And the two classic games in question hail from the 1990s and are both iconic. To this end, GOG users may already have them in their libraries, but if they don’t, they are…
Developer Level-5 has apologized for and explained its use of generative AI after fans spotted "AI slop" in footage of games like Professor Layton and the Curious Village, DecaPolice, and more. Concerns emerged following the studio's Nintendo Direct-style presentation earlier this week. Dubbed…
BlizzCon 2026 is upon is, and IGN is reporting live on all the announcements direct from the opening ceremony. The company behind Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Overwatch is set to deliver an Opening Ceremony that has more buzz about it than perhaps any BlizzCon in the past. The action kicks off…
TechRadar Verdict The Boulies Master Rex (2026) is a comfortable gaming chair with plenty of adjustments and a useful integrated footrest. However, the seat is firmer than the previous model’s, while the new 6D armrests excel in some ways but disappoint in others. Ultimately, though, the Master…
Courtesy of Koei Tecmo The Apothecary Diaries is coming back our way with some cool new anime releases, but it has recently revealed what has to be its coolest one yet with a new video game launch on the way. Hyuga Natsu’s The Apothecary Diaries has quickly become one of the breakout franchise hits…
Some of the first gameplay footage of Fortnite has surfaced online from a behind-closed-doors event at Comic-Con in 2012. The footage was recently posted to YouTube by Reddit user /u/kleuscher, who says that they found the footage on an old USB drive after saving it to it in 2012. Kleuscher says…
A Sega Genesis exclusive game is being rebooted 34 years after its original release. It’s not being remastered, nor remade, but “reimagined,” the vaguest of the three terms. This comes five years after it was ported to modern hardware: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. And…
Final Fantasy 14's latest job has just hit the proverbial shelves, and you know what that means: emergency maintenance to fix an extremely bizarre bug. On Sep. 8, the same day that the new beastmaster class dropped, Square Enix had to quickly patch out a bug where "if the player's character leaves…
For several years, I’ve had a PlayStation 3 in my front room for the sole reason of being able to play Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots whenever I want. You see, before this year’s Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2 release, it was nearly impossible to play MGS4 on anything but a…
Despite being one of the most iconic casts of characters ever made, Mario and Co. never stray too far from the Mushroom Kingdom. Nintendo, notorious for protecting its IP and confining its characters to its ownership boxes, repeatedly rebuffs the chance to give Mario the chance to explore other…
Courtesy of Rockstar Games One of the most exciting aspects of Grand Theft Auto 6 is the ambition surrounding its open world sandbox, which promises to be developer Rockstar Games’ biggest map yet. Coming off the heels of the incredibly detailed and gorgeous natural landscapes of Red Dead…
Key Preview Takeaways: The Toriyama art style makes the latest version in this long-running Dragon Quest sub-series instantly appealing. A staggering 500 collectible monsters left me blown away by the variety and sheer roster size. Some people in my preview session experienced motion sickness while…
A Nintendo 64 exclusive game released in 1997 is now available on the PS5 and PS4 via the PlayStation Store for $1.99. The game, a first-person shooter, never came to the PS1, or the PS2, back in the day, so many PlayStation fans never played it when it first released in the late 1990s. That said,…
Courtesy of Nintendo The latest Nintendo Direct showed off a variety of new games from Nintendo’s established IPs, including Metroid Ravenous, the latest 2D Metroid title coming out in January 2027. The development of this title is being handled by MercurySteam, the same group behind 2021’s highly…
(Image credit: CD Projekt) The Witcher 3's recently revealed expansion Songs of the Past will bring more to CD Projekt's acclaimed fantasy adventure than a new region to explore and quests to pursue, it will also introduce a new weapon for Geralt of Rivia to wield—a gnarly silver chain. Well, "new"…
Key Preview Takeaways: Setting off a zombie apocalypse during medieval times is a fantastic hook. The survival aspects in this realism-aimed world works in Birmingham’s favor. Combat in particular is much-improved since the last preview build. Zombie apocalypses have certainly been a popular…
A Nintendo Switch game that normally costs $70 on the Nintendo eShop is now available for $7 on the Nintendo eShop. There is a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game in question, a very popular open-world RPG, and it has also been discounted, but only to $27. This is a $20 difference, but there’s a…
Paramount+If you’re even the least bit interested in science fiction, you know Joe Morton. The star of the cult classic film The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Morton has starred in countless films in a variety of genres, but for sci-fi fans, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Dr.…
The upcoming Harry Potter series reboot is setting up a magical end to the year, full of charms in both manners of the word. With hours of extra content to pad out the Philosopher's Stone storyline, the rebooted series will dive much deeper into what life is really like studying in a bewitched…
Survival crafting game Zeverland puts a unique spin on the genre by making its zombie apocalypse deceptively cute and allowing you to modify just about everything you can find. That means you can duct tape a clothes iron to a tennis racket to turn it into a deadly weapon, or weld a camera to a…
If you’ve been anywhere in the gaming space in the last couple of weeks, you’ll have undoubtedly seen folks experimenting with DLSS 5. This is NVIDIA‘s AI-assisted neural rendering technology that takes games and makes them photorealistic in real-time. In many ways, it’s incredible, but in others,…