What if I told you Bayonetta wasn’t always the confident, ass-kicking witch we’ve known for all these years? That unexplored history is what Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon shines a light on, painting a thoughtful picture of a time when the scariest monsters a young Bayonetta had to …
Read More »Nintendo's Doug Bowser Says Tears of the Kingdom's $70 Price Reflects Its 'Full, Deeply Immersive Experience'
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo's first $70 game, and Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser has shared why Nintendo chose to raise the price of this specific Nintendo Switch title. "We look at what the game has to offer," Bowser told AP News in a …
Read More »Why Mario Is Still Nintendo's Most Important Character (Sorry, Link)
Super Mario Odyssey came to Nintendo Switch on October 27, 2017. It's kind of hard to believe but because time is an immutable constant, that date was almost five and a half years ago. In spite of that half-decade gap, we haven't had a proper follow-up and Nintendo hasn't really …
Read More »The Believer Company Launched by Former Riot Execs, Creating Open World Game Based on New IP
Former Riot Games executives have launched a new studio called Believer to create a next-generation open world game based on an original IP. The Believer Company’s leadership team includes former Riot Games vice president Michael Chow as CEO and former executive producer of League of Legends and Riot co-founder Steven …
Read More »Why PSVR 2 is Better Than Quest 2
The PSVR 2 is here and I’ve never been more excited to jump back into a virtual world of reality. Sure, we have our fair share of PC VR headsets and two generations of Meta’s standalone Quest, but it’s been almost seven years since we’ve gotten a console VR headset. …
Read More »Pokémon Needs Its Game Boy Games On Nintendo Switch Online More Than Ever
About a month ago, I decided on a whim to dig out all of my old Pokémon games and play them one by one to see what I would find. Spreading a handful of GBA, DS, and 3DS games on a table, I was filled with an invigorating sense of …
Read More »Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is a Litmus Test for Live-Service Games
Rocksteady Studios is an insanely talented game developer. If they didn’t single-handedly prove that you could make an amazing AAA superhero video game, they sure as hell get the lion’s share of the credit thanks to the deservedly beloved Batman: Arkham trilogy. But they left Batman behind after 2015’s Arkham …
Read More »Parks Board Game Review
America is justly proud of its remaining areas of untamed wilderness, much of which is preserved through its national parks system. It’s been an inspiration to both artists and board game designers down the years, the latter giving us titles as diverse as hobby fare Cascadia to the much more …
Read More »Shinji Mikami to Leave Tango Gameworks After 13 Years
Famed game developer Shinji Mikami, well known for directing the original Resident Evil and The Evil Within, is leaving Tango Gameworks after 13 years. Confirmed in a tweet from Bethesda (below), Mikami will be leaving the studio — which he founded in 2010 — in the coming months. "We can …
Read More »Re:Call’s Memory Manipulating Puzzles Are Snappy, Smart, and Truly Standout
When I first started playing Re:Call, I was wearing green overalls and I had a cup of tea on the table next to me. Or, wait. Maybe I was wearing blue overalls and I was drinking cocoa. Or could they have been pink overalls, with a cup of coffee? That’s …
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