iam8bit Brings Game Boy Color Charm with Petal Runner
This is how you deliver retro charm! One of the highlights from Day of the Devs 2024, check below for more information. iam8bit Presents and developer Nano Park Studios – a Canadian indie studio founded by popular pixel artist Brandon James Greer (also known as BJGpixel on YouTube) and programmer Danny Guo – are thrilled to announce Petal Runner during today’s Day of the Devs 2024: Summer Ga...[Read More]
New World: Aeternum Brings Amazon MMO to Consoles
In addition to bringing the MMO to consoles, Aeternum will bring a major content update to all players. Be sure to check out our review after reading the details below. Today, Amazon Games announced New World: Aeternum, a thrilling and content-rich action RPG featuring real-time combat and set in a vast and mysterious world where players have the freedom to choose how they shape their adventure. C...[Read More]
Sonic X Shadow Generations Release Date Announced
It’s a big year for Sonic the Hedgehog fans and it may also just be the year of Shadow. Check out the announcement below. Today, during the Summer Game Fest 2024 livestream, SEGA® announced SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS is set to release digitally and physically on October 25, 2024, and is available for pre-order for PlayStation®5 (PS5®), PlayStation®4 (PS4®), Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Nin...[Read More]
UNKNOWN 9: AWAKENING Shows Off a New Story Trailer
You may recognize Anya Chalotra, who plays Haroona, as Yennefer from The Witcher series on Netflix. Revealed at Summer Game Fest, the Latest Story Trailer Sets up the Quest Taking Players on a Globe-Trotting Action-Adventure as Haroona, Portrayed by Anya Chalotra Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. today gave another glimpse into the compelling story and setting behind UNKNOWN 9: AWAKENING, th...[Read More]
DRAGON BALL: SPARKING! ZERO Releasing October 11
Insert 9000 Power Level joke here. But these Dragon Ball games are becoming indistinguishable from the anime we grew up on. Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. announced that DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO, the first entry to the DRAGON BALL Z: BUDOKAI TENKAICHI series in 15 years, is releasing worldwide on October 11, 2024. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO is available now for digital and physical pr...[Read More]
VALORANT Coming to Consoles, Limited Beta Next Week
After 4 years of PC exclusivity, Riot Games’ competitive shooter is finally coming to consoles. Check out the full announcement below. Video game developer and publisher Riot Games today announced its popular, free-to-play, 5v5 character-based tactical shooter VALORANT will soon be available to global players on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation®5 (PS5®) consoles, beginning with a limited beta...[Read More]
Indika Review
Between each new scene, Indika harshly cuts to black. The effect is a whiplash. Narratively. Mechanically. Technically. A fall down a hole or a jump through a window or a gunshot ringing out. Indika refuses to be cohesive, rejecting to make a complete circle of sense. Its most basic throughline becomes muddled with questionable events and indecipherable landscapes. The director framing the action ...[Read More]
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game Review
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game. What a time to be alive, right? In a few years gaming will likely have tapped the final keg of horror movie properties to borrow from. The asymmetrical multiplayer genre has been a relative boon for franchises that never could be molded into sensible games. Like many, I was victimized by Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street for the NES. Those hone...[Read More]
Hauntii Review
Hauntii is one of those wonderful games that isn’t overshadowed by its intoxicating aesthetic. Undoubtedly, Moonloop Games’ debut title is one that could sell based on its trailer. Countless independent games over the years have battled for recognition through any number of quirks and often work to ensnare eyeballs through a sleek or–for a lack of a better word–haunting tra...[Read More]
Braid, Anniversary Edition Review
Reflecting on Braid‘s significance, one has to play with time. The landscape of 2008 was vastly different for gaming, for most media. In this moment I try to peel back the thick, foggy folds of time and remember August 2008, the month Braid released on Xbox Live Arcade. Poor aimless, hopeless Ben. Unlike Braid‘s main character Tim, I had no steadfast goal to cling to. Much like Tim, li...[Read More]
Crow Country Review
Crow Country is not a game meant for anyone who would look at it and think, “ew.” The blocky, polygonal characters. The scanlines eerily misting over the screen. The crunchy sound effects. It’s meant to shove players face-first into a nostalgic bath of PlayStation 1- and Nintendo 64-era trappings. When I was a teenager, I freebased this stuff. “The asylum I grew up in?̶...[Read More]
SaGa Emerald Beyond Review
It would be difficult to conceptualize SaGa Emerald Frontier to those, like me, who have no experience with the SaGa franchise. After the long, winding trail that was Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Emerald Beyond wasn’t necessarily a polar shift. Certainly, like Rebirth, Emerald Beyond is packed with quaint characters that are distinctly 90s-era JRPG vessels. There’s a capacity for multip...[Read More]