According to a listing that popped up on Amazon UK this week, Marvelous' Dead or School is headed west this year on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, following on from its previous release in Japan in August 2019, (it is also available on PC via Ste...

Take note, developers: If you want me to write about your game on this Very Professional And Serious Gaming Blog™, you need to either make your game very weird, or incorporate dad puns into its title. I wasn't on staff here when Octod...

After a nice winter break, the Podtoid team is back with a fresh episode for 2020. CJ, Chris, Dan, Charlotte, and Occams are on hand to talk Alien: Isolation, Yakuza 0, expansion passes for Pokémon Sword & Shield, next-...

The kountdown has begun for the release of Warner Bros. all-new Mortal Kombat movie which has just wrapped shooting in Australia. The latest live action adaptation of NetherRealm Studios' gooey fighting game will hit the silver screen on Ja...

It's the end of another week, another one! Wild, I know! And whether you're free from the responsibilities of work/school, or whether you're rolling out of bed for the regular nine-to-five, I hope that you are able to find some time for you...

The PC edition of WayForward's awesome brawler River City Girls has been updated to Version 1.1. The new patch fixes one of the game's more troublesome issues, stomps on a slew of bugs, and also features "revised dialogue" for its super sec...

There hasn't been much news about Baldur's Gate III ever since its unveiling last June at a Google Stadia event. Things have been so quiet that an announcement tease qualifies as a story on a slow Friday. Larian Studios, developer of D...

There's something oddly fun about seeing a decades-old video game you never played resurface out of nowhere with an unlikely remaster. Kingpin: Life of Crime – a controversial Quake II-era FPS from Xatrix and Interplay – is com...

It's been a little while since we last heard from Toge Productions' Coffee Talk, but it's finally time to don your apron, as the fantasy barista sim will be hitting PC and consoles on January 30.Set in a world of elves, pixies and other fan...

Like a Witch, Valve fans have wailed and moaned out of their own sort of tortured agony. They want more Left 4 Dead, their cries directed at no one in particular, just into the abyss and for anyone who's nearby. Like a Hunter, Valve has pou...

Marvelous has released a new trailer for its cheesecake jet-ski racer Kandagawa Jet Girls, spotlighting the DLC characters crossing over from the publisher's flagship franchise Senran Kagura.As a quick refresher, Kandagawa Jet Girls is a mu...

Look, if I had to catch even a brief morbid-curiosity-driven glimpse of this official Pokémon ASMR video in which a Charmander curls up and snoozes next to a fire for half an hour, then so do you. It's highly uncomfortable, but we'r...

Ever look at a decent game with a deep discount and wish you had waited until now to buy it? I'm feeling that way right now as I glance through the North American PlayStation Store's Under $20 sale on PS4 games. Someone out there has way mo...

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE was easily my favourite game on the Wii U. It felt like a playful if unorthodox celebration of two beloved IPs: Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem. Sporting vibrant art direction and some of the most satisfyin...

Crytek's beautiful bounty-hunting monster shooter Hunt: Showdown has been making a name for itself on Steam for years. After working through Steam Early Access, the game is nearly ready for PlayStation 4. The PS4 port is now set to arrive o...

Gearbox has been hard at work behind the scenes trying to get their scaling event off the ground for Borderlands 3, and it's actually happening this time: no more delays or bugs. It kicked off last night and will run until 9AM PT on January...

We're currently going through the Delay-Apocalypse right now: well, what about the amiibo-Apocalypse? Today, the Dark Samus and Richter amiibo arrived, following a decent amount of up and down pre-order stock opportunities (currently, they ...

Although Dragon Ball FighterZ exploded at launch, it's been enjoying a sort of quiet victory lap for the past year or so. Originally released all the way back in 2018, Arc System Works is still supporting the game with DLC, and eventually a...

In case you hadn't had your fill of Fire Emblem-related news this week, Nintendo has dropped a trailer for the next DLC expansion headed to the excellent Fire Emblem: Three Houses.The new side-story - title "Cindered Shadows" - will see our...

Magic: Arena, following tradition, is ushering in the new Magic: The Gathering set a little earlier than its paper cousin. Theros Beyond Death, the Greek mythology-themed set, is now live in Arena, with physical pre-release events happening...

An alarming amount of 2020 games have been pushed back until later in the year. It makes sense, it happens annually. But we've also had a few last-minute pushes like Final Fantasy VII Remake, Avengers and Cyberpunk 2077. Now we can add...

You probably aren't short on games to play, but here's another contender for your 2020 Steam wishlist. Black Book is a 19th-century adventure with a bit of deckbuilding that's rooted in Slavic folklore. It's a tale about Vasilisa, a w...

The Elder Scrolls Online has come a long way from its scrappy beginnings. It made the free-to-play move rather quickly in the grand scheme of things, but hasn't looked back and gained a large enough following to keep it going with a regular...

[Update: Alongside Joker's launch, new DC villain-themed skins will be made available for several characters. These include Baraka as Killer Croc, Kitana as Catwoman, Noob Saibot as The Batman Who Laughs and, brilliantly, Geras as Darkseid....

We've got keys for Devolver Digital's Stories Untold up in today's contest! I don't know how Devolver does it, but holy crap they just keep publishing highly rated games. You'd think they'd have way more misses by now, but nope! They just k...