Anytime I review a game with hand-drawn graphics, the press release almost always says it's "Ghibli inspired," even if it looks nothing at all like a Studio Ghibli cartoon. However, Hoa is one game that definitely deserves that claim. Everything from the visuals, music, and overall themes are absolutely "Ghibli-esque." In this very chill and […]
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The Lay D Denton mod is a huge project that takes the original Deus Ex and lets you play through the whole thing not as a gruff cyberpunk dude, but as a gruff cyberpunk woman instead.
*Insert joke about how zombies are ironically one of the hardest things to kill in pop culture and keep coming back, over and over.* Anyway, Back 4 Blood is out this week for PlayStation, Xbox and PC.
Left 4 Dead was a sensation so successful that, even as I write this, the sequel has over 14,000 concurrent players on Steam — though it came out over a decade ago. But Valve isn't in the business of making games for the most part, so WB partnered with Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind the original L4D, to make a spiritual successor. Back 4 Blood has most of what people love about the classic series, plus plenty of new things. It's a damn good time with friends, but the balance is somehow worse than it was during the beta, giving the game a bit of a rough launch. Back 4 Blood is divided into four acts. The fourth one is just a single boss battle, effectively giving the game three campaigns, versus the four and five of L4D and L4D2, respectively. They're beefy, though, and will often take more than two hours to get through each. The game features four-player, cross-play matchmaking, a solo mode, and a PvP mode that pits survivors against player-controlled R...
Although specific sales figures haven't been provided just yet, Metroid Dread is off to a strong start in the UK. We're hearing that it's now the biggest launch for the series in the region ever. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on Wii previously held that milestone. Furthermore, this is without factoring in digital downloads of Metroid Dread. Metroid Dread is indeed...
Nintendo has published a couple of commercials for Mario Party Superstars featuring the Japanese idol group King & Prince. Both adverts can be seen below. Mario Party Superstars is due out for Switch on October 29.
Nintendo has updated its maintenance schedule, and a couple of sessions are planned involving Switch. Both should be wrapped up by the early part of next week. Here's the full maintenance schedule as things stand now: Switch eShop – 9 PM PT (October 11) – 1 AM PT (October 12) – 12 AM ET (October 12) – 4 AM ET...
New World made it through its second week: It implemented detection for "bad-faith AFK players," it saw its queues come way down, and it is still promising server transfers, though they've been delayed. Right now, there's a bit of grumbling over the fact that we won't be able to transfer to different regions as originally […]
This purchase signals the start of a new era for Netflix, more so than announcing that video games being included in the price of a subscription to Netflix.
Netflix could make a big splash in the video games business with a battle royale of its new brutal Korean series Squid Game. Derek Strickland. @DeekeTweak.