Leading up to Nioh 2's release next year, Tecmo Koei plans to hold a character creation contest throughout the game's beta, which will be available November 1st. The top six winners will be presets in Nioh 2's character creation tool. The following information is from the official Nioh 2 website:

"In conjunction with the release of the…

Ever wanted to tell an amusement park you may frequent that their main attraction roller coaster is no good? That perhaps you can design a better ride than they can? Coaster Works may be one of the closest tools to put you in the seat of an architect to create the coaster of your imagination! That way you'd never have to go to an amusement park…

Suffice to say, the latest venture in Take 2 Interactive's WWE series of annual wrestling games has garnered headlines, but for all the wrong reasons a video game should be trending. While it isn't uncommon for these entries to have a fair share of graphical clipping and screen tearing, WWE 2K20 has essentially become you very own Botchamania starter…

The first Castlevania is highly revered to be one of the best examples of linear platforming gameplay on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Its difficulty, level design, and mechanics combine for an immersive experience that rewards paying attention to your surroundings and acting accordingly. Very much like the Contra series, the first game carries…

Obsidian is aiming to engross players in its latest game, the spacefaring foray, The Outer Worlds. Less than a month after the studio was acquired by Microsoft in November 2018, Obsidian revealed The Outer Worlds at the 2018 Game Awards December 10th of that year. Receiving critical praise for their previous works on Fallout: New Vegas and revered…

Google Stadia has a chance to turn some heads in the gaming world. Since its formal announcement at the 2019 Game developers Conference in March 2019, Google has its eyes on providing the launchpad for gaming's future as a streaming service and it will be available in a little more than a month from now. On November 19th, Stadia will be offered to Pro…

The concept of mascot characters for a platform game was a trope throughout the 90's to the point that it became funny. Sonic and Mario dumbed everything down to having a colorful animal character carry a game through success during the 16-bit era. Many weren't even bad games like Aero the Acrobat, just lost in the shuffle. Can't imagine kids goading…

It looks as if Epic Games has a monumental change coming up for Fortnite. As season 10 looks to be wrapping up on October 13th, the team seems to be gearing towards expanding upon the universally successful battle royale game moving forward. As its primary competition, Respawn's Apex Legends launched a new map and saw an increase in players, as well…

For anyone who may have been a little hesitant about sampling Neatherrealm's latest chapter in the hard-hitting, blood spilling mayhem, here's a little bit of good news. From October 11th to October 14th, Mortal Kombat 11 will be free to play on Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

In this free trial, all multiplayer game modes will be accessible, along…

Fester's Quest is the perfect balance of a simultaneously decent game and a very frustrating one. I'll look back and fondly think, "I had some fun playing this one. Maybe I should pull this one of the shelf and give it a go". About six minutes in, after blowing up the 927th blue hopping frog that respawned IMMEDIATELY from the same pixel the previous…

Monster Hunter World will be adding the zombie busting veterans Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, along with their terrifyingly persistent wall-crashing nemesis, Mr. X to the Iceborne expansion. Leon and Claire will emulate their likenesses from the Resident Evil 2 Remake that was released in January 2019 as available skins doing battle with monsters…

The PlayStation 5 certainly hasn't been very shy about any bit of information that can be tossed out for journalists and pundits to feast on. This is that period where speculation runs rampant and it gets dicey to take anything that's reported without official confirmation with any certainty. According to some sources from…

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a return to form for former Konami producer Koji Igarashi, providing a title that was a Kickstarter crowdfunding success and received very positive feedback. The Switch port of the game is certainly more than playable, but shows some noticeable flaws and a litany of stability issues that lag behind its PlayStation…

Whereas my modern opinions about Mega Man haven't particularly aged well, there was a period where the series was a very influential launching pad for not only making a 2D side-scrolling action platformer, but a formula for how to build a game that teaches the player progressive learning within gameplay while blending well paced action with good enemy…