The more things change, the more they stay the same. At the Tokyo Game Show this weekend, attendees were able to sample a wide range of upcoming titles from major Japanese developers. One of the more prominent was Devil May Cry 5, a sort of...

Before I had a house full of kids running around, I used to have game night with friends. One night we sat down with a cool looking board game called Super Dungeon Explore. It reminded me a little of my favorite board game growing up, Hero ...

Currently, Street Fighter V is the only mainline Street Fighter game not to have seen its initial release within the dark din of the video arcade. That's all set to change, at least in Japan, as Capcom has announced that the latest entry in...

Zelda artists are some of the most talented individuals on the planet, due in part to the rich canvas they're able to draw from. Tom Garden has been honing his craft for several years now, and eventually pivoted into game art, as ...

Although I'm a fan of anime, I find that, a lot of the time, its animation is inconsistent, usually lacking in smooth character movement, occasionally unreliable in terms of anatomy and perspective. Regardless, it can always be relied upon ...

[Despite last week's unfortunate events for Telltale Games, it's only right that we honour the talented men and women of the studio by reviewing what may prove to be their final release. This is now very likely the last episode in a series ...

In a shocking move unheard of in cinematic history, movie-going audiences this weekend went to see the good movies, giving The House with a Clock in Its Walls a better-than-expected opening and propelling A Simple Favor up into th...

Takara Tomy launched their Rockman Figure Collection line back in 2017, and vowed to eventually release more toys. Well that day has come: as Rockman Corner points out, the new wave actually debuted at TGS for sale in January 2019, and will...

This weekend saw North America and Europe once again meet in the ink-stained arena of Nintendo's online shooter Splatoon 2. The difference to be settled this time around was a matter of style, tech, tastes and fashion. When it comes to your...

[Update: Well, I think we can call this a done deal, as the ESRB has also released a "T for Teen" rating for Castlevania Requiem for PS4. The ratings board describes Requiem as "a collection of two action platformers in which players assume...

[Header art by Goomrrat, Katsutank, Urbanator, Torini Tea and Hyousen] About four days ago, Twitter user Haniwa posted a short comic about Bowser using the new crown power-up from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (the same one that&...

With the recent layoffs that happened at Telltale Games this past weekend, a bunch of former employees have been coming out with stories of being overworked, underpaid and seriously neglected. Each little bit that gets revealed shows an ugl...

Is the world ready for a Netflix Diablo animated series? Hasn’t Diablo stolen enough of our lives already, keeping us running levels and bosses all hours of night and day for those super unique magic items and runes? Apparently, Netfl...

In the lead-up to their full launch early next year, Failbetter Games has released a pen and paper RPG companion to Sunless Skies and best of all it is free! Skyfarer is meant to help acquaint players with the neo-gothic theme and feel of S...

This weekend's Tokyo Game Show brought some fun news for eager fans of the upcoming Nintendo 3DS sequel Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. Atlus released not one, not two, not even three, but four character trailers, looking at the series' r...

Free games, free games; where for art thou, free games? They're here, and this time with collectible card game Mad Crown for Steam. What do you get when you mix an RPG, collectible cards, skill progression, dieselpunk aesthetics, monsters, ...

For most of my youth, the Andriessen household was a one-console home. We had an NES which we traded in for an SNES which we traded in for a PlayStation. Those first two consoles were hooked up to the living-room television, but when we got...

WARNING: CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE ZERO ESCAPE SERIES, THE DANGANRONPA SERIES, THE STEINS;GATE SERIES AND CHAOS;CHILD Last weekend, I finally finished my playthrough of all six endings to 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine ...

Point-and-click adventure games had a bit of a renaissance in the last decade, but have become harder to find ever since Telltale discovered a different formula with The Walking Dead in 2012. Luckily, indie developers are there to fill...

The Switch port of Dragon Quest XI was hinted at months before the system first hit store shelves. We know it's coming, but since it was announced Square Enix has remained tight-lipped on the highly anticipated port. At Tokyo Game Show...

Hideo Kojima was joined by the Japanese voice cast on stage during PlayStation's Live Show TGS2018 and he brought with him some new details for Death Stranding. While the entirety of the presentation was in Japanese, so I haven't a clue wha...

Ready for some more free games? Today Breathedge is up for grabs -- don't miss out on this contest! I don't know of many games where an immortal chicken is used as a tool to break things, plug leaky pipes, and scan electronic equipment. In ...

This week, retro-fans Hamster have pulled up another old-school arcade title and primed it for re-release on multiple platforms. But this week sees a particularly obscure release from the house of SNK, as Cyber-Lip is made available on PS4,...

I don't know when I became the staff's indie adventure game guy, but however it happened I'm glad it did. I've got to experience some really charming and unique titles that'll stick in my memory for years to come; I've gotten to experience ...

As a lifelong Jersey boy, I have immense pride in my Italian-American heritage. Sure, everyone thinks we're all mobsters who only wear tracksuits and love our mothers to an almost Oedipal level, but there's something so great about the bond...