Xbox Games With Gold announcements are now available for the month of May. Making out the titles coming to Game Pass is the innovative platform game from developer Villa Gorilla, it's Yoku's Island Express. From Studio Fizbin and game designer Florian Hüsing comes the point-and-click hand drawn adventure The Inner World - The Last…

April is coming to a close, and it's that time to shed some light on the free titles coming for subscribers to PlayStation Plus. This May brings some sports, a dash of survival, and search action. For both the PS5 and PS4 consoles comes Electronic Arts' football phenomenon FIFA 22 and Norsfell Games' Tribes of Midgard. Exclusively…

Bandai Namco's platforming mascot Klonoa kicked off the celebration of his 25th anniversary back in February with the announcement of Phantasy Reverie Series during the Nintendo Direct. A collection featuring remakes of the first two games, Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil, it had appeared at the time they were going to be…

Eiichiro Oda's manga and anime One Piece is one of the most, if NOT the most, successful franchises of all time. Following the story of Straw Hat Pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy, who seeks to become the king of the pirates, the One Piece manga has sold over half a billion copies worldwide and is considered a national treasure in Japan. With its blend…

Some more studio purchase talks and new is afoot, as Xbox is not done looking for acquisitions. Even with the blockbuster purchase of Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media, giving Microsoft the…

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Major brands are still looking to bolster their library of game developers, or aiming to have a strong investment in gaming ventures, and one studio that has been in and out of those talks has been UbiSoft. The publisher behind the…

The Nintendo Switch has been a successful console since its launch in 2017. Its one main caveat, and fight its been enduring since its release has been the lingering issue of JoyCon drift, the occurrence when a motion input is read by an analog stick without prompt. While Nintendo vehemently denied the severity of the drift issue over the months and…

It's been a long time coming for the latest brawler game involving the famed heroes in a half-shell. After months of anticipation, teaser trailers, and development, studio Dotemu's latest gameplay overview highlights more of Shredder's Revenge's mechanics. As well as finally pinning a release date, aiming for some time this summer.…

The stories circling around who could be the next big studio acquisition remain paramount. Many are rumors and speculation, but with little concrete information to verify beyond a formal announcement. A certifiable source, however, may provide information that could see Elden Ring developer FromSoftware being purchased by Sony, as reported by…

For the longest time I can remember, Mario Kart 64 is usually declared the best in the series, often wrestling with Mario Kart Double Dash for favorite among fans. Given the success and appeal of the N64's 4-player controller ports, Mario Kart 64 was a choice party game in the mid 90's and one of the choice titles on the platform. I've talked about…

Uniqlo's graphic t-shirt brand, UT, has been churning out gaming collab collections left and right! The latest is the second installment of the "Pokémon Meets Artist" series, featuring magma, "an artist unit created by Jun Sugiyama and Kenichi Miyazawa, known for its collages of familiar objects and waste materials."

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Social media can read a lot of what goes into posts and tweets. In the age of studio acquisitions, this has become a hot topic, and all kinds of speculation is begging for confirmation. One of those studios that's been at the circle of these discussions for the last few months has been Kojima Productions, Hideo Kojima's independent development…

To think, it's been almost three years since the last Overwatch hero addition, this feels pretty refreshing. Overwatch 2's newest hero, the former captain Sojourn, gets a gameplay trailer showcasing her abilities. Armed with a railgun, she has an area-affecting Distruptor Shot that negates opponents caught in the discharge, so this could put the hurt…

Published and developed by Konami, CRIMESIGHT is a new sleuthing detective title that puts you in the shoes of the legendary private eye, Sherlock Holmes in a really unique futuristic setting. Konami is trying its hand at player vs player social deduction.

A new mystery simulation game with player-vs.-player action arrives on the crime…

The Xbox Series X and S has seen some pretty good success since its launch, though the pandemic and continuing battles with bots and resellers have made obtaining them a little tricky. The Series S is a little easier to find, but indicators have reported that last month, the Xbox line of consoles have outsold the PS5 and Nintendo Switch in Europe for…

In the years I've spent writing reviews for modern and retro video games, I learned a lot of my thinking has evolved. The topic of generational leaps with popular franchises adjusting with the times with varied results is one I now put a lot of thought into. I try not to just say "GAME BAD" and move on, there's gotta be something deeper to…

Kingdom Hearts is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and it's been three years since the release of Kingdom Hearts III, a game whose story likely ended up raising more questions than answering them. Several years has passed, and Square Enix has several KH projects lined up for the near future regarding the tales in the Realm of Light. Rather, based on…

The Sega brand is currently riding the wave of success and good press the Sonic the Hedgehog movies are bringing to the brand, as well as the steady stream of popularity and acclaim Atlus has garnered with their Shin Megami and Persona line of games. While Lost Judgement, a game developed by Sega's in-house studio Ryu Ga Gotoku (the Yakuza…

While Reggie's charismatic personality has certainly been missed as president of Nintendo Of America (and his cup of coffee he had as a member of the board of directors for GameStop), the former chief operating officer will have words to say in his upcoming book, Disrupting The Game: From the Bronx to the Top Of Nintendo. Reggie will also be…

Epic Games has finally made Unreal Engine 5 fully optimized for use, alongside Lyra, a shooter game utilizing its capabilities. A premier game engine for video game development, Epic plans to have UE5 used to make the very best of open world games, as well as fine-tuning the impact of physics and more dynamic character animations. A "State of Unreal"…