After laying dormant for nearly a decade, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance franchise is back with Ultimate Alliance 3, exclusively on Switch. Man that's a good get for Nintendo, and it's out on the eShop tomorrow. Other Switch releases include ...

Bandai Namco will be bringing a "Lite" version of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 to the Nintendo Switch this summer. Similar to the same free-to-play version on Xbox One and PS4, this glorified demo will include five story missions, the "Hero Colo...

Get that Lancer revved up, as this weekend sees the coming of the first Versus Tech Test for Microsoft's upcoming shooter Gears 5. allowing Xbox Game Pass subscribers and pre-order customers the opportunity to get an early glimpse at the se...

And we're still back to normal after the E3 lull, with the third week in a row with a ton of eShop games and some big releases. The king this week is easily Dragon Quest Builders 2, which is releasing day-and-date with the other editions in...

Just this past weekend, Arc System Works revealed it would be releasing a demo for Kill la Kill: IF in Europe and Japan on PS4. Thankfully, the US actually is receiving the demo after all. A curious bit of writing on the PlayStation store ...

Arc System Works is set to release a demo for Kill la Kill: IF early next week. Hitting the Japanese and European PlayStation stores on July 8, the demo will include four playable characters from the final roster and include the first chap...

It's a unique week for the Nintendo Download list, as the publisher has released this coming week's offerings a day earlier due to the July 4 holiday falling on the usual Thursday cycle. As such it's a smaller spread, with Strange Thin...

It's a big week for Nintendo with another first party game arriving on the Switch in Super Mario Maker 2. Also on the Switch eShop you'll find Another Sight, Arcade Archives Wild Western, Attack of the Toy Tanks, Baobabs Mausoleum Ep 2, Bit...

The story of Psychonauts is one of the happiest underdog stories in recent memory. The original launched to critical acclaim in 2005 but underperformed so badly that plans for a sequel were scrapped fairly early on. The relative failure of ...

Nintendo's E3 Direct was full of a ton of surprises, but one of the more striking was the announcement of Empire of Sin. Feeling completely out of place for Nintendo's family-friendly image, the short teaser showed mobsters gunning down oth...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been in the making for some time. Developed by the two-man team at Edelweiss, it tells the story of Sakuna, the daughter of a harvest goddess and a god of war, as she divides her time between battling the m...

After holding back a bit for the past few weeks outside of Cadence of Hyrule, the eShop is ready to explode this week. We're getting to huge releases in the form of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled tomorrow and Bloodstained: Ritual ...

I'm not exactly well-versed in the Sniper Elite games, but I am familiar with the Nazi Zombie Army spin-off. Taking a lot of cues from Valve's Left 4 Dead, this diversion from sniping living Nazi soldiers added a more focused campaign to th...

I'm not exactly well versed in the world of VR gaming. While I think the technology is cool and all, I feel it has more value in academics than gaming. You can certainly make interesting games around the technology, but there hasn't been mu...

Konami isn't presently held in the highest regard by most people. After canceling Silent Hills, firing Kojima at the tail end of Metal Gear Solid V's production, adapting long-dormant franchises into pachinko machines, and releasing the s...

As popular as the Switch is, there isn't a single traditional MMO experience available for the console on these shores. While it makes some kind of sense in that portable mode conflicts with the always online requirement MMO's have, not eve...

When envisioning a John Wick video game, most people's minds would probably jump to a traditional shooter. The film franchise is based around a retired assassin gunning thugs down and punching others in the throat, so some kind of third-p...

E3 is nearly over, and right on cue is our "surprise" release: Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda, which is probably the last time I'm going to type out that full title. It's definitely the favorite th...

Do you hear that? It's the calming winds of pre-E3. That explains why the eShop is taking it easy this week, as it's absolutely going to be jam-packed next week with surprise reveals and the like. Before that happens, Slay the Spire le...

The Nioh 2 alpha has now come to an end. For about a week, a select few players jumped into a small demo of the upcoming sequel, provided they were lucky enough to get a code. Nioh was an important game to me, as it got me interested in the...

Although it's not technically this week, the prized eShop release is indubitably Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth on June 4. What's the big deal? Well not only is it basically a new Persona game (mixed with Etrian Odyssey for...

[Update: Since the launch of the trailer two points have come to light. Firstly, there is no Online mode at all, only Training and local VS. Secondly, only two hours of playtime are allowed from the demo's activation.]SNK has announced that...

As I've gotten older I've taught myself to keep my hype for upcoming games in check. Too many times I've been burned by building up games in my head to be far more than what they eventually turn out to be. I'm not saying it's something ever...

Today is another mostly indie-filled day for the eShop as we prepare for E3. There's some ports sprinkled in for good measure! The big one this week is Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization which originally came out in 2016 as the fourth ent...

French video game developer Quantic Dream has announced demos and dates for the PC ports of their most recent releases: Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human, all of which will be made available exclusively on the Epic Gam...