“In a mad world, only the mad are sane,” a stirring line from Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 samurai epic Ran, urges us to remember that in times of chaos, strange or unconventional ideas may actually be wise. In Rise of the…
Hyper Light Breaker Preview – Hands-On With The Not-Quite-A-Sequel To Hyper Light Drifter
In my review for 2016’s Hyper Light Drifter I wrote about how it was a game I created excuses for myself to keep playing after seeing credits writing, “I didn’t do it out of necessity; I did it because I…
Hyper Light Breaker | New Gameplay Today
Hyper Light Breaker is not a sequel to Hyper Light Drifter in the traditional sense, but it does take place in the same world, which is all we needed to hear to be excited. While this isn’t gameplay footage of…
Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra Is Skydance’s Captain America/Black Panther Game Arriving Next Year
Skydance New Media’s mysterious World War 2 Marvel game has a title: Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. It also has its first trailer and a release window. First announced in 2022, the game stars Captain America and Black Panther Azzuri,…
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero Gameplay Video Reveals New Mechanics And More Characters
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero had a big coming out party in the form of a 13-minute gameplay presentation that gave fans a nice look at its moment-to-moment combat. Bandai Namco showed off what’s new, what’s staying the same, and even…
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Review – On The Shoulders Of Giants
Creating a sequel to a 12-year-old game is never an easy task. Recapturing the magic of the original while implementing modern technology and design strategies can mangle the core values that made the original special. Dragon’s Dogma 2 never loses…
March’s Xbox Game Pass Line-Up Has Diablo IV and Cars Galore
Microsoft’s highly publicized acquisition of Blizzard has had wide-reaching effects, and while some of them have been quite awful, this month showcases one of the upsides. Diablo IV, one of Blizzard’s big 2023 releases, comes to Xbox Game Pass late…
Valve Introduces New Steam Family Game Sharing Program
Valve has announced Steam Families, a revamped program that allows players to create a group to share and play games with close family members. The program launches today in the Steam Beta Client and it replaces the Steam Family Sharing…
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Preview – Revving Up An Old Engine
An entire generation of fighting game fans have been born, hit puberty, graduated college, found a career, and possibly started a family in the time between the last Fatal Fury game and the upcoming City of the Wolves. The most…
Indie Metroidvania Animal Well, The First Game From Dunkey’s Bigmode Publisher, Gets May Release Date
Animal Well, the gorgeous indie metroidvania that will also be the first game published by Videogamedunkey’s Bigmode, will hit PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC this May. More specifically, developer Shared Memory, which is just solo dev Billy Basso, revealed in…