One of my favorite recently-created and thankfully recurring events is returning this month in the form of a third Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable. Thanks to Fighters Generation, we know who’s scheduled to show up to the panel. Traditionally, some of the companies involved bring some sort of news or update for their ongoing products or upcoming
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This weekend brought the second annual Video Game Accessibility Awards, a celebration of games which make an effort to welcome a wider range of players. Prizes came in ten categories covering everything from control and text options to friendly training spaces. It was a fun awards show too, with good hosts, chat from devs, and
The remake of 2008 limb-lopping horror game Dead Space should launch in early 2023, EA have now said. This comes off the back of a developer stream on Friday which showed off (sounded off? hearded off? noised off?) some of the fancy new noises and noise technologies they’re working on. It sounds pretty good. And
The second annual Video Game Accessibility Awards happened last night, on March 13, and it saw many studios take home awards for their accessibility efforts in gaming in 2021. Hosted by AbleGamers’ Steven Spohn and Sony Santa Monica studio writer Alanah Pearce, this awards show highlighted what studios were doing to make games more accessible
I no longer want to play any game released prior to 2005, but you may feel differently. You may look at the Gold Box D&D games and think, ‘Yes, what I crave is hours upon hours of late-80s/early-90s CRPGs about dying in a sewer.’ If that is you, then good news: they’re coming to Steam
It’s Friday yet again, and you know what that means: It’s time for another edition of Weekend Warrior! This week has been an absolute whirlwind with the Sony State of Play on Wednesday, plenty of new game reviews hitting the site (check out Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Gran Turismo 7, Triangle Strategy, and WWE
Do you smell that? That’s the smell of justice, courtesy of John Cena, err, Peacemaker. If you haven’t had your fill of The Suicide Squad and James Gunn’s accompanying Peacemaker TV show on HBO Max and are looking for more from everyone’s favorite murderous justice-deliverer man, then Funko has you covered with five new Pop figures.
Nintendo and Capcom are giving Nintendo Switch Online users an entire week of access to Monster Hunter Rise starting today for no additional cost. The trial, which is going from March 11 through March 17, allows players access to the entirety of Monster Hunter Rise while the offer is active. Nintendo’s download page for the trial
Intel’s 12th Gen notebook processors and the mobile version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti are now finding their way into gaming laptops, after their respective reveals this January. And both have found their way into the MSI Raider GE76, that top-spec GPU getting paired with a fittingly top-spec CPU: the Core i9-12900HK.
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this to you, dear readers, but I am currently mid-emigration. In about two weeks I’m moving to Ireland, which means for the past four months my live has been hellish. The paperwork the move involves, especially now we have from our European womb been untimely ripped, is a Kafkaesque
WWE 2K22 launches tomorrow with a roster of over 80 superstars that you can view right here. However, those won’t be the only wrestlers in the game. 2K has rolled out the content roadmap for DLC character packs to give players a heads up on who to expect and when. The roadmap consists of 28
Distant Worlds 2 review in progressDistant Worlds 2 is an enormous 4X strategy game about building space empires that refines the formula from Distant Worlds. I’ll have more to say soon, and I’ve a feeling it’ll be mostly good. Developer: Codeforce Publisher: Slitherine Ltd. Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam, Slitherine Price: £33/€40/$40 I
Trek to Yomi is a stylish action title that may not have been on your radar before, but its latest trailer during today’s State of Play presentation shows off why it may be worth keeping an eye on. The game, developed by Shadow Warrior makers Flying Wild Hog, is an action sidescrolling take on classic samurai
I have enjoyed seeing Wordle fans make a million new daily puzzle games to make us guess words in strange and cruel new ways. I have enjoyed even more seeing Wordle fans make daily puzzle games which aren’t about guessing words, using familiar elements for whole new challenges. Heardle makes you guess songs by listening
Half the point of the Steam Deck is that it’s portable, but the other half is that it’s a PC. With the right tools, then, you can plug into a monitor, add a mouse and keyboard, and get playing as if it were a (somewhat) conventional gaming rig. But how well does the Steam Deck
Batman’s Batkids will swing by for open-world antics in Gotham Knights on the 25th of October this year, Warner Bros. announced today. This is the game which looks kinda Batman: Arkham-y but doesn’t have Batman, instead letting us play as his various protégés. And it’s got online co-op, which sounds Batnice.
Obsidian’s massive RPG, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, is no longer coming to Switch. Publisher Versus Evil made this announcement in its official Discord, stating that it has canceled the Switch version of this RPG first released in 2018 on PC and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2020. The studio kept the news brief
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, more games companies have decided to suspend some business with Russia. In the past few days, Activision Blizzard, Epic, and CD Projekt (including GOG) all announced plans to stop selling games or stop selling things in games to Russia, joining a list which also includes EA and Microsoft.