I didn’t know a Crazy Taxi mode is the thing that Days Gone was missing, but here we are. I didn’t bother with the free DLC that came out for the PlayStation 4 version, so playing again on PC—which comes with all DLC included out of the box—is my first …
In 1999, Pokemon Snap made quite the splash. It was a huge departure from the RPGs that came before it, at a time when Pokemon hadn’t really branched out into different genre territories. It was also an interesting twist on the rail shooter genre—though mechanically similar to games like Star …
This weekend’s Final Fantasy XIV fan festival kicked off, as expected, with a keynote address focused mainly on news about the upcoming expansion, Endwalker. But while details about new jobs, zones, collector’s editions, and the release date are all welcome, there was one particularly exciting piece of news for those …
On the first Friday of every month, the Indiepocalypse zine/game bundle brings together an assortment of indie games, typically with an experimental, creative, artistic focus. Today is the second Friday of May, which means I’m a week late in sharing this news (woops!), but nonetheless, Indiepocalypse #16 is now available …
A standalone release of DariusBurst: Another Chronicle EX+ is making its way to Switch and PlayStation 4 on June 11 with both digital and physical releases, Taito and ININ Games have announced. DariusBurst: Another Chronicle originally came out in arcades in 2010, building upon the PSP game DariusBurst and taking …
Yesterday, peripheral manufacturer SteelSeries announced the SteelSeries Rival 5, a nine-button mouse designed for versatile use across different genres, coming to Australia and New Zealand by July. The Rival 5 features nine programmable buttons, four on top (including the mouse wheel) and five quick-action buttons on the left side, along …
In 1988, Nintendo released Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir upon the Famicom Disk System. Though the lack of global release meant it’s long been an obscurity outside its home country, it made quite the splash in Japan. For one thing, it gave Yoshio Sakamoto—best known for his work on …
It’s hard to separate The Settlers-style city-building strategy games from the colonialism embedded in them—after all, this is a whole genre built around the idea of settling unfamiliar land and creating a thriving community there. But Before We Leave, from Dunedin-based Balancing Monkey Games, looks at it through a different …
Trigger Witch, a twin-stick shooter from the makers of Reverie that “puts an ultra-violent spin on cute and colorful pixel art”, is coming to all of the major consoles this northern summer / southern winter, thanks to a publishing partnership with eastasiasoft. Taking place in a world “where magic is outdated …
Last week, ININ Games announced the western release date for Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, and it’s not far away: May 28, 2021. Asha in Monster World is a remake of Monster World IV, which originally came out for Sega Mega Drive in Japan in 1994. That version never …
