With the whole world dissolving into an apocalyptic, primordial abyss, your band of misfits sets out into a nightmarish land to save everything by destroying corrupted pieces of reality beneath an ancient mountain. They'll probably fail, taken down by ambush, infighting, bad luck – but maybe, just maybe, fortune favors …
Read More »Amnesia: The Bunker Delayed Two Weeks
Frictional Games announced that it has delayed Amnesia: The Bunker to June 6. The decision to postpone the game was to fix issues regarding rare crashes that were difficult to identify and replicate. In a two-minute video from creative lead Fredrik Olsson, he explained that the game is currently undergoing …
Read More »Hollow Knight: Silksong: Team Cherry Provides Release Date Update
Team Cherry has announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong has been delayed past the first half of 2023 and that more details will come as the game nears its release date. Over on Twitter, Team Cherry’s marketing and publishing lead Matthew Griffin said: “We had planned to release in the 1st …
Read More »Honkai: Star Rail Review
Honkai: Star Rail starts with a bang, serenading you with a symphony and blowing up a space station. You quickly ground yourself in a world with code-locked chrome doors, mech-like invaders with bladed arms, and rooms with monitors spread across the walls. Its hook of a prologue gives just enough …
Read More »Xbox Series Hex: Why Won’t Xbox’s Big Game Problem Go Away?
Phil Spencer has accomplished a lot of great things during his nine-plus years as Head of Xbox. Under his leadership, Xbox has made incredible strides in: Accessibility: If Xbox isn’t the industry leader in this, they are at the top of any list, both on the software side and the …
Read More »The Last Case of Benedict Fox Review
2.5D Metroidvanias are hardly thin on the ground, but The Last Case of Benedict Fox has a striking sense of style and some truly stimulating puzzle solving to help it stand out from the side-scrolling platforming pack. Unfortunately it doesn’t quite have all the fundamentals covered, with sluggish controls that …
Read More »How Honkai: Star Rail Is Using AI Technology to Supplement Development
More and more game studios are actively discussing and considering the implications of new AI technologies in development, and Honkai: Star Rail developer HoYoverse is among them. The fourth entry in the Honkai series launched last week for PC and mobile, bringing gacha and other systems familiar from its prior …
Read More »Stray Blade Review
It can be tough to stand out from the pack when creating another Dark Souls-inspired action game to toss on the pile. In theory, developer Point Blank Games had the right idea of how to do it with Stray Blade, making a more approachable soulslike with a focus heavily on …
Read More »Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon – Here's What Comes in Each Edition
From Software’s next game isn’t an Elden Ring or Dark Souls sequel. It’s a sequel to an older series that existed long before those action-RPGs took over the gaming landscape. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is the developer’s next game, and it’s set to release August 25 for PS5, …
Read More »Dredge Review
I didn’t know I needed a cosmic horror-fueled fishing game in my life – at least, not until I played Dredge. It’s not exactly a full-blown management sim ala Fishing Planet, but this 12-hour expedition through haunted open waters is both mysterious and compelling enough to tickle my brain and …
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