It's been a crazy week for news if you're a fan of classic arcade shmups. The cutesy Cotton is getting re-made, The Strikers series is getting a new entry, and now M2 has announced that Cave shooter ESP Ra. De. will be coming to PS4 and Nin...

Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege continues to release new and exciting content to keep the twitchy shooter fresh and engaging well into its fourth year. A recent video reveals details of the two new door-kickers joining Siege's ...

A video has surfaced online, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal's Takashi Mochizuki, that features Sony showcasing the loading speeds of its upcoming PlayStation 5 console when compared to that of the PS4 Pro. The video was taken during So...

Every now and then, a title shows up on the video game market that has all the passion and talent of the "AAA gaming" scene, but without the budget or the marketing machine of a Warner Bros. or an Activision in its corner. Despite this, som...

It's taken some time, and it feels like we've been talking about it forever, but the green flag has finally dropped on Team Sonic Racing. Sega has released a final launch trailer in hopes to get your motor runnin'.Available now for PS4, PC,...

Every now and again, the fine folk over at Hamster like to throw us all a curveball when it comes to their retro re-releases. Case in point, this week, as Jaleco's weird Buta San is been now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Released...

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...

Publisher Humble Bundle, in association with developer Blue Manchu, has announced that space shooter Void Bastards will launch on PC and Xbox One May 29, and will be made available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers on launch.Void Bastards blend...

Today during Minecraft's 10th anniversary, Microsoft unveiled the new "top secret" project: Minecraft Earth. It's that AR (augmented reality) concept we heard about recently, much in the same vein as Pokemon Go, Garfield Go (haha), and what...

As part of a recent broadcast of the Rune Factory channel, publisher Marvelous spoke a little about the new features coming to Nintendo Switch remaster Rune Factory 4 Special. The revamped edition of the Nintendo 3DS title will now include ...

Taiko no Tatsujin kicked off in 2001 and it's been going strong ever since, especially in Japan. Although the west doesn't always get some of the more esoteric games (like the 3DS RPG) odds are you've seen it in arcades and are at least awa...

Two classic Arc System Works fighters blow up on the Nintendo Switch today, with the physical launch of the Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Edition in Japan and Europe. North American fans can get in on the retro rumble via Guilty Gear XX Acce...

Every fighting game needs its hero. For Street Fighter, it's Ryu, for Dragon Ball FighterZ, it's 14 types of Goku, for Mortal Kombat, it's Movado, and for Samurai Shodown, it's the fiery Haohmaru, showcased here in a new trailer from SNK.Th...

Well, we didn't get that rumored "Goodbye Reggie" Direct, but we are getting something before E3. Nintendo has just announced this morning that the next Direct on the table is all Super Mario Maker 2 related, and will be dropping post-...

World of Warcraft's Thrall has been MIA/retired for a while in the MMO's universe, having served his time protecting the horde and well, the very fabric of the universe. But like all heroes (and lucrative nostalgic intellectual property) it...

Modders have transplanted countless characters, and while the results are often little more than a chuckle-inducing novelty, sometimes their move just fundamentally works. I don't know how NieR: Automata's 2B would end up on a hard-fought q...

SNK has released another character trailer focusing on one of the stoic warriors returning to the ring in their upcoming Samurai Shodown. This week, it is the turn of scarred samurai Genjuro Kibagami, a man with quite a tale.Debuting in the...

Developer Rebellion has dropped a launch trailer for Sniper Elite V2 Remastered, which launches today digitally on PC and console formats, with a physical release to follow later in the week.Originally released in 2012 for PS3, PC and Xbox ...

Today sees the release of Focus Home Entertainment's miserable-looking tale of love and loss among The Black Death. A Plague Tale: Innocence is the story of two young siblings forced to fight for survival in 14th century France.With disease...

Square Enix has announced that its dramatic android adventure NieR: Automata is still continuing to pull in new sales, with the 2017 title having hit the four million global shipments/sales milestone.The action RPG, which tells an emotive s...

World of Warcraft is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year (it feels older, doesn't it?), and WoW Classic will be joining in on the festivities. It'll launch on August 27, and will herald in a "World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary C...

When folks aren't whipping up their own imaginative art in Dreams, they're often using the game's powerful creation tool set to express their love of shows, movies, and of course video games. It's only natural. As much as I like to play spo...

Last week brought some exciting news for fans of Arc System Works' anime fighter (no, not that one... or that one either) Granblue Fantasy: Versus, which is headed to PS4 sometime this year.First up was the reveal of a closed beta. This dem...

For the first time, studio Oddworld Inhabitants is ready to show off gameplay for Oddworld: Soulstorm, a project fans have waited over two decades for. The sequels and spinoffs haven't been nearly as impactful as the original, and Inhabitan...

For all of you waiting for a quartet of new fighters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, it seems that the wait is almost over. Arc System Works has announced that Character Pack 7 will finally be arriving on all platforms on May 21.This set, wh...