Every couple of years, a core childhood memory resurfaces and sends me hunting for a bizarre PlayStation game my brother and I obsessed over but never actually played in its entirety. The internet search goes like this: game on red-and-black PS1 demo d…
Continue reading "PS1 gem Tomba! is still a wild ride nearly 20 years later"Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma series and other major games for Capcom, announced on Saturday that he’s leaving the company. “From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment,” he wrote in a post on X. Itsuno has…
Continue reading "Dragon’s Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he’s leaving Capcom to start a new project"Owning a Playdate comes with the perk of already having access to 24 games at no additional cost from the bundled-in Season One — and some pretty good ones to boot. But there are a ton of great games outside the Season One offerings too, for when you’v…
Continue reading "The best Playdate games for 2024"It’s seemed like everyone this summer has been talking about Valve’s in-development MOBA shooter, Deadlock, except Valve itself. Thousands of people have reportedly played it, some of whom have leaked screenshots and gameplay footage. But Valve has rem…
Continue reading "Valve finally confirms its next game, Deadlock, with a bare-bones Steam page"This is it, the first game to nearly make me throw my Playdate against a wall. Angel Pop, a bullet hell shoot ‘em up that landed on the Playdate Catalog last month, is utter chaos. Playing as an adorable little girl, you must fend off a nonstop barrage…
Continue reading "Angel Pop brings cutesy chaos to Playdate in a highly addictive bullet hell"Are you more than your past? This seems to be the question at the heart of Penrose, a short but impactful psychological horror game for Playdate by Liza Olson. The answer will ultimately be determined by the choices you make as you try to find your way…
Continue reading "In the Playdate game Penrose, your past has come back to haunt you"After years of teasing its arrival, Xbox has finally announced a release window for the upcoming Fable reboot. The game is slated to hit Xbox Series X/S and PC in 2025, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass from day one. The company dropped a new tra…
Continue reading "Xbox’s Fable reboot will come to Xbox Series X/S and PC next year"Sometimes it’s the simplest games that end up leaving you all teary-eyed and emotional.
When I first downloaded Cool Lemon Club’s The Keyper for Playdate, I didn’t have much in the way of expectations beyond a general sense that it should be pretty goo…
Resident Evil 6 has sold surprisingly well on the Nintendo Switch since it was ported to the console in 2019, despite it being almost universally panned by fans of the series. As spotted by Nintendo Life, RE6 just got added to Capcom’s Platinum Titles …
Continue reading "Over a million Switch owners have bought the worst mainline Resident Evil game ever"Is it blasphemous to call a survival horror game “cozy”? Maybe so, but while thinking back on my playthrough of Crow Country, the word popped into my mind more than a few times.
From the jump, there’s no question about Crow Country’s PlayStation 1 infl…
