Month: February 2023

Watch our Octopath Traveler 2 review! Five years after the original, this sequel from Square Enix sticks a little too closely to the original systems without expanding on them much. The still lovely visuals don’t stand out as much anymore, but the turn-based combat system is still quite fun and satisfying. If you liked the
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Image: Square Enix Outside of Kirby, perhaps one of the most anticipated Nintendo Switch releases this month is Octopath Traveler II. This HD-2D RPG by Square Enix makes its triumphant return – building on its predecessor’s established foundation with some welcome new ideas and tweaks. We gave the game an “excellent” nine out of ten
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Layers of Fear, formerly Layers of Fears, will be released in June, according to Bloober Team. News of the release window was announced today in a short trailer (thanks, Gematsu). The 2023 release features 2016’s Layers of Fear, along with its expansion Inheritance and the sequel Layers of Fear 2, each updated in Unreal Engine
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Not For Broadcast is an FMV game about making a TV show. As the National Nightly News airs live on screen, you will make the edits, censor the swear words (and later, politically controversial phrases, if you choose), and even pick what plays in the ad breaks. As tensions rise, a burgeoning resistance movement demands you
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Metroid Prime Remastered reviewed by Samuel Claiborn on Nintendo Switch. Metroid Prime has been one of my favorite games for decades, but I’m still shocked that its bones are so strong. 21 years later, in 2023, Metroid Prime Remastered had to do so little beyond modernizing the controls and updating the graphics to become one
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Guerrilla Games has released free Horizon Forbidden West avatars to celebrate the game’s first anniversary. Over on the PS Blog, the studio also shared some interesting player stats ahead of the game’s inclusion in February 2023’s PS Plus Extra/Premium catalogs. Free Horizon Forbidden West avatar PSN codes (all regions) Grab the freebies using the following
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Avalanche Software has some bad news for those who’ve been hoping for Hogwarts Legacy DLC. The studio says it currently has no plans to release additional content, but the good news is, it doesn’t look like DLC is completely out of question. Hogwarts Legacy DLC might eventually be released “We’ve been really heads down bringing
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Image: Nintendo, Illumination The Super Mario Bros. Movie is just around the corner, so it’s no surprise more details about this anticipated Illumination animation are surfacing each day. The latest morsel of information comes from the Irish Film Classification office. According to the website, Mario’s movie will run for 1 hour and 32 minutes (that’s
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“Never go back” Above are the words which reflect the strongly held beliefs of a certain member of TheXboxHub team. When it comes to making games in the current age, you’ll seldom find wiser words. But sometimes, just sometimes, it’s absolutely worth going back.  I also had to pinch myself because after finding that BBC
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Early prototype game footage of a canceled Dead Rising 5 game has emerged through the portfolio of one of the game’s level designers. Tentatively titled Dead Rising: Dia de los Muertos, the footage features Chuck Greene as the game’s protagonist in a couple of videos, one proposing a loot container mechanic and another showing off
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