We've reached the one-month mark until The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening washes ashore on Nintendo Switch. I'm ready. You're ready. But let's get extra ready. The dazzling remake is up for pre-purchase, meaning you can download the file...

Square Enix has dropped a lengthy gameplay video taken from their upcoming superhero slugfest Marvel's Avengers, which launches in 2020 on PS4, PC and Xbox One. The notorious "A-Day" prologue (doubling as a tutorial for the game) was showca...

So uh, the Geoff Keighly is in Death Stranding Show Gamescom Opening Night Live ceremony just happened, and there were a few announcements worth looking at. We got another glimpse at Death Stranding, and even though so much of it was overly...

Insomniac Games might work with Sony a ton, but they're actually independent. Well, they were, until today that is. During Gamescom Sony announced that they've actually acquired the studio, having "entered into definitive agreements to acqu...

Mojang recently dropped its plans for Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack and summed up the canceled visual update as being "too technically demanding to implement as planned." But in its announcement, the team teased that it wasn't all b...

Man Nintendo's Indie World Showcases are such a breath of fresh air. I love the hosts and the chill tone, and we usually get a few big announcements in addition to a general celebration of the indie scene. The big ones this time are undoubt...

RAD provides an alternate history where at some point in the mid-eighties, the world was annihilated in nuclear hellfire. Eventally, survivors managed to scrape together enough remnants of civilization to start rebuilding society. Cult...

When Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot was announced, publisher Bandai Namco stated it would be a grand retelling of the Z saga. That could have meant a lot of things, but many assumed it would be like every other Dragon Ball game. There was unlikely ...

It might not always feel like it, but the mission to bring Oblivion into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is moving forward, slowly but surely. The modders behind the ambitious Skyblivion project released another teaser trailer today, and while ...

[Update: The process is now live! You can find full instructions here.] Later this month on August 27, the floodgates will be opened and World of Warcraft Classic will finally arrive. Given that folks are understandably invested in thi...

Square Enix recently held a Final Fantasy XIV FanFest in Shanghai, China (read: a special expo held in several counties that specifically celebrates FFXIV, typically with news and live concerts), and the production quality was off the ...

If there's one title from 2019 that came out of nowhere, kicked down the front door, and immediately captured the attention of the video game community, it's WayForward's upcoming brawler River City Girls. With a reveal trailer dropped like...

Before From Software was synonymous with Dark Souls, it was pumping out mech games. To me — even as someone who has torn through every Souls game multiple times at this point — From will likely always be linked with Ar...

I've shared a few Final Fantasy XIV housing miracles before. The aspect of player-creation within this massive MMO is something that endlessly fascinates me, to the point where I actually roam around housing blocks to seek out new proj...

Professional esports, while much more widely accepted than it was only years ago, is still coming into its own. There's a lot about competitive gaming that a mainstream audience doesn't even consider -- like, coaching. The highest level of ...

You could deliver brawlers to me by the truckload on a weekly basis. They're like comfort food: both a reminder of a bygone era when they filled the arcades and my living room with joy. As I continue to harp on the importance of game preser...

[Update: As you can see below, Capcom went ahead and confirmed this leak, dropping a trailer for all three characters, as well as individual gameplay trailers, that we have posted at the bottom of this story.] It appears that there is a hol...

I can recall the very first time I experienced the awful phenomenon known as FOMO, or “fear of missing out.” It was in middle school. I was obsessed with the WWF at the time and my family had recently traded in our SNES for the ...

It's hard to believe that we could be living in a world with no western Fire Emblem availability. We can owe it all to Super Smash Bros. Melee, which sort of introduced the series to the west by way of Roy and Marth, and the rest is hi...

Folks who picked up the (non-bundled) Doom Trilogy on Switch this week were met with a rather odd requirement for the (in two cases) now decades-old games: a Bethesda.net account. Billed as a way to connect folks with the "Slayers Club...

We've reached a point where there's always a PS4 sale of some sort running on the PlayStation Store. Right now, it's the Summer Sale – a four-week promo with deals mostly on PS4 games as well as a handful of PS3 and Vita titles. If yo...

As we've talked about recently, Zelda: Breath of the Wild is home to plenty of comedic moments. Whether it's through natural gameplay or deliberately staged antics, Breath of the Wild is good for a laugh on any given week. This pa...

Capcom keeps diving into the well of Mega Man X. Despite the fact that the series proper died with Mega Man X8 in 2004, the publisher is keen to bring back Zero and X on a moment's notice, cramming them into myriad fighting games, RPGs...

[Update: Nintendo has released a video thanking the fans for the support, filled will some of the cool fan art contributions to The Splatocalypse. You can check it out at the foot of the article.] And that, as they say, is that. After two y...

One common thread I've heard about gaming for the past several years is the amazing quality of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Once arguably the worst mainline title in the series, it has evolved into what many, many, many&...