Someone over at Nintendo is looking out for Xenoblade Chronicles. What was once an obscure JRPG only released in select regions is now a coveted Super Smash Bros. representative with multiple sequels to its name. To think it was once p...

Maybe you have one villager in mind. Maybe you're secretly plotting against your whole island community in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Either way, I'm curious! Who do you have it in for? The more I fall into a daily routine, the less pat...

If you include its alpha period, Minecraft turns 10 years old this year. I know! For some that's a long time; but for others, it feels like it's always been there. For years the folks at Mojang have been slowly building on the original conc...

Mafia II is a period piece, a brash spectacle of organized crime backdropped against a romantic vision of 1940s and 50s metropolis americana. It has old-timey slang, cars that drive like boats, and big band radio hits. There's also nar...

Shortly after the reveal of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, an unlikely report started circulating: Valhalla would be smaller than Odyssey. That's not how this generally works. Maps get larger, content gets broader, and hours players need to inv...

The whole "if you had to take one [x] to a desert island" question is pretty hack, but if the question was "what publisher's catalog would you take," Clover/Platinum's works would be in the running. Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, Metal Ge...

Remember when Punks were the bad guys in everything? When comics, movies, TV shows, and, in particular, arcade games of the '80s and early '90s all considered punks to be the street-walking vilification of society? From Class of 1984, to Fi...

[Update: I reached out to Denuvo, and a representative confirmed an update is in the works to allow the game "to be launched for singleplayer offline play without requiring installation of Denuvo Anti-Cheat." They were unable to provide a t...

An impromptu live stream hosted by industry figure Geoff Keighley has just confirmed one of gaming's worst kept secrets. Classic PlayStation skateboarding sims Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 are being remastered for PS4...

If you've ever gotten a kick out of mashing disparate Pokémon together to make unholy fusions (haven't we all?), then you might be very into Cassette Beasts. It's a peculiar turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets you fuse all 120 ...

Remakes, no matter their quality, are always a tricky business. How much of an old game's ideas or mechanics do you preserve? What do you update, reinvent, keep as-is, or discard outright from an old game that won't betray its essence, or r...

Mismanaged expectations -- that's mostly the culprit for the backlash to yesterday's Xbox Series X first-look gameplay reveal. On its own, the event was fine -- good even! -- but it was heavy on cinematic trailers and light on raw in-game f...

While Magic: Arena just forged ahead with its Godzilla-filled Ikoria set, there's still plenty of old cards that need some love too. After all, Magic heavily favors standard, but folks have been clamoring for more ways to play the...

With no E3 this year and COVID-19 forcing many developers to work from home, the next few months are going to be interesting for the industry. While Sony and Microsoft ready to launch new and possibly very expensive consoles, Nintendo has i...

NetherRealm Studios has revealed Mortal Kombat: Aftermath, an expansion to its gory fighter Mortal Kombat 11. Launching May 26, Aftermath will bring new kharacters to the roster, along with a story mode expansion, new stages, and - finally ...

So the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ultimania book has been a font of info for what's to come in what is now called the "Remake Project." We learned that there is a second secret meaning to the term "Remake" that director Tetsuya Nomura wi...

I can't believe how much I'm enjoying Predator: Hunting Grounds, a 4v1 multiplayer game in which one player – if they're patient enough to sit through lengthy matchmaking queues – can stalk a crew of four well-armed, mud-caked s...

There are many great PlayStation Vita titles that players continue to hail even to this day. Breach & Clear is not one of them. The tactical shooter was met with middling reviews when it released for the Vita in 2015. With a f...

It's been 10 years since the events of Streets of Rage 3, and Oak Wood City is only mildly safer than it once was. Having left the police force decades ago to embark on their tax-break vigilante careers, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding ...

Times are tough for the Tokyo Imperial Theater. In the decade following The Great War, the International Combat Revue's Flower Division has fallen on hard times. If it wasn't enough that the theater troupe's best performers never returned f...

Sometime in the third act of Gears Tactics, as I was studying the battlefield to find optimal points of cover to send my COGs scurrying behind, the parallels hit me like a ton of bricks: All those Gears games I had been playing since t...

As you may recall, there's a ton of different PS4 themes for Final Fantasy VII Remake, but one of them, at least in the US, has a really strange promotion attached to it. Yes! It's the Butterfinger (and Baby Ruth/Crunch Bar) one! The really...

If you're lucky, you've managed to avoid spoiler-filled leaks for The Last of Us Part II and you'll be able to keep your blissful ignorance going until June 19 when the high-profile sequel launches on PlayStation following a logistics-drive...

Final Fantasy 7 Remake feels like it took forever to come out, but actually, it's been on Square Enix's mind "for a very long time," according to new information found in an Ultimania book interview (translated by Twitter user aitaikim...

Now that the initial batch of Final Fantasy VII Remake sales are in the rear-view window, director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase are finally starting to open up about where the team could go from here, and it's just as confus...