The first of Hamster's retro re-releases this week looks at the origins of one of SNK's most popular heroines, goddess warrior Athena, often muddled with KoF's Athena Asamiya, but we'll get to that.Princess Athena is the heroine of 1986 arc...

Developer Arika has announced that there will be three more characters headed to their fighting game Fighting EX Layer in the first part of 2019. Two of these three characters will be added to the roster free-of-charge, whereas the third ch...

Another chaotic, cathartic shooter from SNK's Metal Slug series returns to modern platforms this week, as retro-enthusiasts Hamster release Metal Slug 5 on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally launching in arcades in 2003, Metal Slu...

It's hard to describe the impact that Yasuhiro Nightow had on me growing up. After discovering Trigun during a particularly tough period of my life I started to open up and just plain enjoy life more. If you've seen the carefree nature of t...

A few months ago, Google had opened a beta of its "Project Stream" service with Assassin's Creed Odyssey as the headlining title. Whether the results were good or not, Google is holding another test and the incentive is a bit more appetizin...

If you dig the recently released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and want to own a digital copy of it, nabbing it on PS4 might be a good bet. Sony has an offer going that will net you the latest DLC for it's hit game, Marvel's Spider-Man,...

After recently announcing that he would begin self-publishing Stardew Valley on all platforms except for Nintendo Switch and mobile, game creator Eric Barone promised more announcements would come soon. Earlier today, he had quite a lot to ...

I'm not ready to stop playing Overcooked 2, and thankfully, I don't have to! Ghost Town Games has come out with Kevin's Christmas Cracker, a free batch of DLC with five new holiday-themed levels and fresh recipes including Christmas pudding...

The whole appeal of the battle royale sub-genre is that your odds of winning are left to random chance. Sometimes you land in a spot with a ton of excellent gear and other times you're stuck with squat. Skill will get you a long way, but a ...

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn has been confirmed as the last major DLC for the game following the departure of director and lifeblood of the game Hajime Tabata: who went on to form his own studio a short while later. It's currently d...

Activision has followed the same format for Call of Duty DLC since...well, forever. Typically they announce add-ons ahead of time, which are comprised of a handful of maps and a zombie pack, then that date comes and whatever publisher has t...

Screaming Villains, the small-scale studio that brought us Night Trap: 30th Anniversary Edition, has today launched its second remaster from the annals of terrible FMV video games. Double Switch: 25th Anniversary Edition, is available today...

Good on Square Enix for continuing to support Dissidia NT PS4. Sure a lot of it is with paid DLC, but they've tried to bring the game into the fold with a free version in some regions and dole out a heap of free content like levels and bala...

Square Enix spent a lot of time and money on Kingdom Hearts III, so you better get ready for the huge marketing push from, well, now, until its late January launch. Sony has just announced that they will be hosting a special edition PS4 Pro...

Half the fun of fighting game reveals is the inevitable months-long conversation about which characters will make the roster. We're going through that right now with Mortal Kombat 11 but at an expedited pace because it releases relativ...

Konami has released a free version of PES 2019 today. Dubbed PES 2019 Lite, the game is a stripped down version of the main title that includes "myClub," a mode that is the equivalent of FIFA's "Ultimate Team" mode. As for the modes that ha...

True to its word, Square Enix has released a standalone version of Final Fantasy XV's multiplayer component, Comrades. You'll be able to find this on PSN and Xbox Live for $9.99 and it comes complete with 10 new bosses for players to battle...

Bundle up! We're heading across a snow-bound land full of irradiated monsters and limited supplies with which to fend them off. Metro Exodus will hit PC, PS4, and Xbox One a week earlier than expected. "We had previously delayed the release...

Square Enix has announced, via the official Tomb Raider Twitter, that Ms. Croft is getting set for another death-defying turn, as new DLC The Pillar will be arriving in Shadow of the Tomb Raider next week.The Pillar will follow previous DLC...

Hot on the heels of their reveal earlier this week in Famitsu, Koei Tecmo has released a trailer featuring fist-flying action between the latest additions to the Dead or Alive 6 roster: Eliot and Brad Wong.In the chaotic promo vid, the youn...

All the Spider-Man DLC that we know of is set to conclude on December 21, a little over three months since the game launched. The add-ons so far have comprised a trilogy, dealing with Black Cat, Hammerhead and now, Silver Sable. W...

It's not too often that a simple developer-provided summary can fire up my imagination and immediately invest me in a video game, but Zanki Zero: Last Beginning pulls off that feat. The new survival RPG from Danganronpa's Yoshinori Terasawa...

Fallout 76 just can't win. It launched as a bizarrely broken and lonesome mess. Bethesda is trying to fix it, but players discovered that the weekly patch notes actually omitted a ton of important changes that made the game more grind-...

Monster Hunter: World is going to get a lot bigger and a lot colder next year. Capcom has recently announced the Iceborne expansion which will bring an ice environment in fall 2019. Although we're just a few days removed from the...

Now that PvP and rambunctious new Demolition Derby events have made it into The Crew 2, Ubisoft is wisely taking the opportunity to get more eyes on the flawed but fun game. It's holding a free weekend event from Thursday, December 13 to Mo...