Alternate timelines are a staple of the RPG genre, offering up worlds and situations that verge just on the precipice of believably. The latest example of such fiction can be found in Atomic Heart – a first-person action RPG currently...

"My uncle works for Nintendo" is one of the funniest things I heard growing up, alongside of "my significant other lives in Canada/is somewhere else." But in this video, someone's uncle might show up! Shared recently by the YouTube cha...

As we enter 2021, the 10th anniversary celebrations for Kazutaka Kodaka's bizarre series Danganronpa look set to continue. The latest festivities seeing the arrival of a "mystery maze," which is scheduled to open in Shibuya, Japan from Janu...

Remember when Bilbo returned to The Shire and had to reclaim his own stuff? Well, if he had video game/anime amnesia, he probably wouldn't have been as pissed off about it. It's safe to say that in pretty much any game, having a humble yet ...

Shutterbugs waiting on the return of Pokemon Snap might enjoy this blink-and-you'll-miss-it TV commercial for the upcoming Nintendo Switch release, which has started airing on Japanese television. The typically enthusiastic short stars youn...

In today's contest you can win a Blu-ray copy of Tremors from Arrow Video! Usually I introduce this kind of stuff and try to take it seriously. You can probably find LOTS of evidence to the contrary, but shut up I don't care. I'm a Professi...

The console editions of Two Point Studios' Two Point Hospital are set to be brought up to speed in the coming months, with the arrival and several paid expansions and content packs, previously made available on the PC edition of the lighthe...

We are just a week out from the launch of Bloober Team's latest chilling horror jaunt, The Medium, which will launch on Xbox Series X and PC January 28. For those of you gaming on the latter platform, at least one impending fear can be put ...

To this day, SNK's 1999 release Garou: Mark of the Wolves stands as one of the greatest fighting games ever made, period. Launched amidst a run of fairly interchangeable King of Fighters releases, the ninth - and to date final - episode in ...

Aside from my normal rotation of gaming-adjacent YouTube subs that I keep tabs on a few times a week, lately, my feed has been full of anything but modern video games – hardware mods, console restorations, little-known tidbits about m...

One of 2021 most intriguing, but surprisingly under-the-radar releases is Arzest's colorful title Balan Wonderworld. An adventure seemingly packed to the rafters with fantastical characters and imagery, this strange new game from Sonic the ...

Go on, keep your secrets Zelda: Breath of the Wild! For several years, that is! Eventually, dataminers and modders will find everything the game has to offer, it's just taking a while to comb through it all. We've seen a ton of new discover...

Project: Mara is Ninja Theory's "most ambitious and realistic game setting ever," and in a behind-the-scenes video, we're shown how technology and art are coming together in new ways at the studio. Better yet, co-founder Tameem Antoniades b...

Today sees the launch of the latest Summoning Event in Nintendo's pocket battler Fire Emblem Heroes. Once again, four more heroes will be joining FeH's ridiculously stuffed roster of heroes and villains, all ready and eager to drain you of ...

Hamster is taking us back, way back, for this week's Arcade Archives release. Available now on Nintendo Switch, it's everyone's favorite cyborg officer and the future of law enforcement... you guessed it... Cosmo Police Galivan. Released in...

IO Interactive has announced the cloud-streamed edition of stealth sequel Hitman 3 will be made available on Nintendo Switch on January 20, day-and-date with its PC, PlayStation, and Xbox brethren. Hitman 3: Cloud Version, as the title sugg...

The more I see of Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection, the more its "storybook" aesthetic is growing on me. The overall look of this new Nintendo Switch game caught me way off guard at first – especially in such a fast-moving trailer &ndas...

If you haven't checked out Flavourworks' interactive live-action mystery Erica, then you can now take her dark journey with you on the bus, to the supermarket, or even to the bathroom, thanks to this brand new mobile port, available right n...

Perhaps no genre of gaming has been scuppered worse by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic than fighting games. 2020 saw practically an entire year of tournaments and events canceled on local, national, and international levels. Once the honeymoo...

It's been too long since we got to hang with the cool kids of Shujin Academy. Joker, Makoto, Ann, Ryuji, and Haru – not forgetting Futaba, Yusuke, and Morgana, are "The Phantom Thieves," heroes of 2016 hit Persona 5 and now set to ret...

We are just a fortnight away from the launch of the unnerving horror adventure The Medium. In order to give the willies to those looking forward to Bloober Team's newest foray into the darker side of reality, the publisher has released an a...

In an awesome bit of news for block-busting fans, Sega has announced a free update for its colorful puzzle title Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, adding new modes and stages alongside four playable characters including the blue blur himself – Soni...

Yesterday's trailer for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury looked fantastic – you almost could've fooled me into thinking the new cat-filled zone was a DLC world for Super Mario Odyssey – but the glimpse we got left us with pl...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin might have had a fairly quiet release, but that doesn't mean it didn't find its fair share of fans, bewitched by the cute of a troublesome harvest goddess and her efforts to feed and defend a ramshackle island. Unfo...

Housemarque continues its campaign to show off the weird, unsettling, and fascinating universe of its upcoming chrono-adventure Returnal. The Resogun developer has released a new trailer for the PS5 exclusive, specifically focusing on the h...