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Indie retro tributes are a dime a dozen, but the really good ones are rarer than you think. Blazing Chrome, a 2019 run ‘n’ gun channeling Contra III, is one of them. And today its developers at JoyMasher announced they’ve got a new one in the works called Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider. It’s basically 16-Bit Ninja Gaiden…
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The Embracer Group, who are slowly buying any and every video game publisher and studio on the market, just announced that they have purchased Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that owns the big-and-small-screen rights to most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important works, including Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
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Thank you, All The Right Movies, for digging up this old interview with Bob Hoskins, in which the award-winning British actor talks about the time he got the job playing Mario in the 1993 big-screen adaptation of Nintendo’s series.
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FIFA 23 is currently up for preorder around the world, and is supposed to be a full-price retail release, but in one particular market on one particular store, customers could get one hell of a bargain.
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As you may know, Bethesda’s mega-popular RPG series Fallout is headed to a TV series. This is top of mind again because new pictures from the set of the upcoming post-nuclear Amazon adaptation leaked sometime in the past 24 hours. Live-action video game adaptations are getting pretty good these days, so it shouldn’t…
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In 2012, Disney and Marvel contacted Avalanche Studios—the team behind Just Cause—and began working with them on an Iron Man game that would never see the light of day.
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File this one under “mods you probably thought already existed.” With Voxel Doom, you can now play the legendary 1993 first-person shooter Doom with all the monsters and items rendered in beautifully chunky, 3D voxels. While smaller-scope voxel mods have existed in the past, this one replaces just about every single…
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Bungie revealed its massive Arc 3.0 rework of Destiny 2’s lightning abilities today, and while the rundown includes a number of changes that are sure to make fans happy, one of its biggest surprises calls back to one of the game’s darker community moments earlier this year. Fortunately, the developer on the receiving…
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We Are OFK is a coming-of-age story about queer friends struggling to make it in L.A.’s brutal music scene that’s part interactive music video, but fully intense. Billed as an extended play (EP) album launch featuring some synthy bops, this narrative adventure gripped me by the heart with its gut-wrenching themes…
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“Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However, nobody seems more invested in shaping our collective notion of what the metaverse is than Meta and Facebook boss Mark…
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Yesterday, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser sent out an internal message to employees acknowledging the “media coverage involving claims made about worker conduct.” He wrote that “We have and will always investigate any allegations we become aware of, and we are actively investigating these most recent…
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Final Fantasy XVI’s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of Final Fantasy. In a recent interview with Inverse, he said that the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to sea changes in the gaming industry.
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Super Mario Bros. is one of the most storied games in the history of video game speedrunning, and an incredible new compilation shows just how far players’ mastery has come. Why watch just one world record run when you could watch all of them at the same time, in just 11 minutes?
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On August 15, “Mike Hawk” (his words, not mine) uploaded a Spider-Man Remastered modification to Nexus Mods that “replaces Newton’s Prism’s artifacts with the stars and stripes,” its description said. But the mod, surreptitiously named “Non-Newtonian New York,” wasn’t the work of a rogue Isaac Newton hater crusading…
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With Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, a movie about how Piccolo is Gohan’s real dad, releasing later this week as well as the current DBZ extravaganza going on inside Fortnite, we decided it was the perfect time to rank every Dragon Ball movie and see which one comes out on top. What could possibly go wrong?
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And just like that, 2022’s game of the year season has begun, not with a bang but with the whimpered bleat of a cartoon sheep. Yes, action-cum-management game Cult of the Lamb is excellent—a fascinating creature from the Island of Dr. Moreau’s Video Game Boutique that turns its adorable nose up at any rigorously…
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Today, the PlayStation Store started one of its rotating “Games Under” promotions, which will include hundreds of titles and will run through August 30. This time, PlayStation focuses the promotion on getting “Games Under $20” instead of the $15 benchmark it has occasionally used in the past (it really needs the $5),…
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This summer, it feels like everyone is hot for one thing and one thing only: the kitchen boyfriend. FX’s cooking comedy-drama The Bear, which makes use of Chicago’s dining scene and Jeremy Allen White’s hands looking pretty good holding a quart container full of water, made sure of that. But you don’t really want the…
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Fortnite’s new update adds a ton of content directly pulled from the popular anime franchise, Dragon Ball. Specially, beloved heroes like Goku and Bulma are now running around the battle royale rubbing shoulders with Darth Vader and Batman. Wild times. And these new anime characters have brought with them powerful…
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One of my favourite Fine Art posts for the year was our showcase for OlliOlli World, so it’s a huge pleasure that we’re able to be looking at art from Roll7's latest game (Rollerdrome, which is out this week) so soon.
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It’s been a few years since we’ve been able to run a cosplay post from the San Diego Comic-Con, but we’re back in 2022 with a gallery and video recapping what’s probably the biggest nerd show on the planet.
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Paradox released a piece of Crusader Kings III DLC in March 2021 called Northern Lords. For over a year it has been available for $7, but that price is about to be jacked up to $13 for...a reason?
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Evo Moment 37 is one of the most famous showdowns in video game history, a comeback so incredible that even those of you who know nothing about fighting games have probably seen it at some point. It’s so important, in fact, that to mark the occasion, a few years back Nike started working on a shoe designed…
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Activision is back on its bullshit, and by that I mean the massive games publisher is again suspected of lifting ideas from outside artwork to create the skins it sells in Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone. This time, it appears likely the company took direct inspiration from a skin created by an ex-CoD staffer that…
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There’s a dramatic scene in Nier: Automata in which a desperate, downtrodden android commands his AI companion to cease all logical functions. The AI, sensible thing that it is, warns him that there’s almost no chance this will end well. Our hero knows this, of course; he does it anyway. This leads to one of the most…
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Google Stadia hasn’t really been in the mainstream spotlight since its high-profile launch in 2019. And outside of bad news and poor reviews, it mainly disappeared from most gaming sites and YouTube channels. But the players who’ve invested hundreds or even thousands of hours into Google’s video game streaming service…
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Saints Row developer Volition uploaded a story trailer for the soon-to-be-released gametoday, finally giving us a look at what the upcoming reboot’s narrative has in store for players.
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I love shooters about as much as I love taquitos from 7/11, which is to say on far too many occasions I am walking out of such a store at 3 a.m. with…multiples of them…and a can of Monster energy, on my way home to play Halo or Siege or one of my shooter go-tos. Well, about a week ago, I decided that night’s game…
