I've played a lot of Metroidvanias and Ori and the Blind Forest sits squarely near the top of the pack. Now it's coming to Xbox Game Pass, so if you have it, you should get on that. Microsoft is ramping up the pretty great service as t...

NIS America has announced that three of the hyper-colorised, hyper-stylised "psycho-cool" titles in the Danganronpa series are being compiled for release on PS4 in the first quarter of 2019.The Danganronpa Trilogy will include the Reload ed...

You really can't get anything past players these days: if there are undocumented portions of a patch, they will find them and call you out on it. It's a reality that many, many developers have learned to cope with (Epic Games provides detai...

It has been an excruciating year for me. When I took a look at DUSK in early-access back in January, I was in love. The game was everything I had wanted from a first-person shooter since the '90s passed. No regenerating health, no hit-scann...

Kingdom Hearts III is a wrap. It's true! Just several weeks ago Square Enix confirmed that it's finally done, and given that it was announced five years ago and was just several months away from release at that point, it's just as well...

It's mid-December and, hoo-boy, money is changing hands. With cash registers ringing and people grabbing up stuff for Tat-mas, it's been a very profitable week for video game publishers. None more so that Nintendo, whose biggest release of ...

Ariana Grande already made it into Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, now it's Katy Perry's turn. In a seemingly endless line of promotions and guest stars, Exvius managed to get Perry to sign onto the game not only for a commercial (which is mutu...

Yep, Capcom is teaming up with CD Projekt Red in an upcoming Monster Hunter event. Geralt is traveling the world it seems after another recent Bandai Namco collaboration! Announced today with a very effective trailer, Geralt himself fr...

Kingdom Hearts III is actually coming out. No, really, it will be with us next month. Can you believe it, after its original announcement way back in 1994. For those of you fortunate enough to own a PSVR kit, however, there's some Disney x ...

Bertil Hörberg's Gunman Clive series is one of the low key best platformers on the 3DS and Wii U. After originally debuting on mobile platforms, the western-themed platformer made its way over to Nintendo's portable and even ...

The Game Awards happened this week and Dan and I have a lot to say about them! Going on for nearly as long as the actual show (not really), Dan and I talk about the aspects we enjoyed from the show, the games we're anxious to play and the s...

The latest addition to Hamster's Arcade Archive collection features a brand that we all know very well indeed. Even if the original games are kind of a massive chore to play through today, (don't get mad at me unless you've played Double Dr...

This contest will help you feel heroic: Win a Switch or PS4 copy of I Am the Hero. If there's one thing I definitely am not, it's a hero. Whenever games present the choice I of a "good" and "bad" playthrough I always choose the good side --...

Arthur Morgan plays a role much larger than he knows. His actions set a momentous pace for the player; every step forward becomes a considerable time investment. Arthur’s journey in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) begins and ends with a ...

One of the big takeaways from The Game Awards last week is that every child of a celebrity is playing Fortnite. Also, this new Epic Store is in it to win it. Several games have pushed back Steam releases to give the Epic Store PC launch exc...

[Header Herabuff by @WaddleDurrr] Nick Franco's Pokémon: Hard Mode comics popularized the concept of the Nuzlocke, one of the most well-known self-imposed challenges among electric mouse enthusiasts. Its two simple rules --...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey's first piece of paid DLC is both a departure and a comfort food. As add-ons tend to go, Legacy of the First Blade's Hunted chapter recycles all the core systems from the original game. It falls right into that...

As soon as I heard "Devil Trigger" after Devil May Cry 5's E3 reveal I rushed to grab the single. This one? Not so much, but it's nice to know that music is still very much a part of the fabric of the DMC universe. The song "Crims...

On my last day of PAX East this year, I took a look at a retro-inspired FPS called Project Warlock. Developed by Buckshot Software, the game is the vision of 19-year-old Jakub Cislo and his desire to recreate the games of his youth. With hi...

Fans of Stoic Studios' Banner Saga will have reason to step back into the beautifully animated and unforgivably tough fantasy world next week. An update to The Banner Saga 3 will add a new mode for all your sword and shield smashing shenani...

Arachnophobe warning!Other than video games, my main passion is women dressed in suits, with drawn on pencil-thin moustaches movies. Whilst I haven't kept a complete tally of how many films I've watched, I know it's thousands upon thousands...

So here's the thing about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -- you only start with a handful of fighters! Yep I know, it sounds rough, but in the grand scheme of things you'll have plenty of time to experiment with the entire roster after spe...

This contest is only a flesh wound: Win a copy of Knights of Pen and Paper 2! I'm not a knight, but if I were, I'd probably use a cool weapon. Not a sword, because all knights use swords. Maybe something more like a fishing rod with a flame...

Those delightful retro-enthusiasts at Hamster have brought something a little different to the table for this week's Arcade Archive re-releases. From the mid-90s, Twinkle Star Sprites is a very colourful and cute anime shmup that might appe...

It’s been 14 years since Katamari Damacy graced us with its bizarro charm and broken family dynamics, but the King of All Cosmos is back in full HD and it’s up to you to do the (literal) groundwork so the universe can be whole...