Silly, straightforward arcade action For a while now, I’ve had the urge to play aSpy Hunter-like game. (But not, oddly enough, an honest-to-goodness, actualSpy Hunter —trust me, I’ve tried.) I’m starting to look toward Twisted Pixel for a helping hand. LocoCycleis yet another unusual project from the makers of‘Splosion ManandComic Jumper. At this point, it’s becoming easier to pin down what makes a Twisted Pixel production, despite the studio’s willingness to experiment with genres....

Effective right now As I was getting ready for my morningMagic: Arena“few game wind-down” break, I was immediately greeted with a pop-up:bam, four cards have been banned. Popular standard cards, mind! Announced this morning and effective immediately,Cauldron Familiar,Growth Spiral,Teferi Time RavelerandWilderness Reclamationare nowoutofArenaand paperMagic.Magicpeddler Wizards of the Coast says they are “choosing to forgo..advanced notice and roll[ing] out these changes as soon as possible.” While the latter three were set to cycle out in the fourth quarter of the year anyway, Cauldron Familiar wasn’t scheduled to leave standard until the tail-end of 2021, so that’s a big change....

Roasting on an open fire Strangely, weirdly, annoyingly;severalMariogames are going away at the end of the month. But while folks are dealing with that impending doom in different ways, Nintendo is blindly ignoring the critics. In fact, they recently tweeted out a little infographic of just how manyMariogames there were on the Switch, a marketing exercise that wassupposedto make the system look good, but with one exception; they put two of the “going away to the vault” games on it!...

We should decide Brexit this way Nintendo of Europe has opened a new website to help promote community tournaments in their ink-stained Switch shooter,Splatoon 2. The site, which went live late last month, is already preparing for the first Community Cup event, which takes place on January 13. On the site, players can find the latest news, tips and tournament brackets. You can also register your own team for the upcoming tourney, or perhaps find a vacant spot on someone else’s....

That’s ‘razor’ with an ‘o’ and not Origin the EA thing and not EVO the tournament And I thought people referring to Early Access games as “EA” was confusing. Origin — the PC manufacturer — debuting its EVO series laptop right after the end of EVO — the fighting game tournament — is a good one. Anyway, here’s a new $2,000 laptop you should expense if you work for a wealthy company....

It tops 15 million players Overwatchhas added quite the exclamation point to Activision Blizzard’s financial statement. The publisher just released its most recent investors’ report, and the success of Blizzard’s multiplayer shooter has led to record revenues for Activision in the second quarter. According to thereport, Activision’s revenue for the quarter ending on July 05, 2025 was $1.57 billion. Compared to last year, that’s an increase of 50 percent. Activision’s digital revenues were also record-setting, as the company brought in more than $1....

After aweek of hints and teasers, Paradox Interactive has finally revealed its new title:Millennia. InMillennia, players will create their own nation in a historical turn-based 4X environment. From there, players will shape the nation across 10,000 years of history starting with the dawn of humanity and stretching into the future. According to Paradox, each playthrough will be unique as you craft an epic story based on your actions. The new strategy title is being developed by C Prompt Games, who doesn’t seem to have much of a history....

If there’s one thing that makesPersonagames special, it’s their ability to make typically banal moments in RPGs feel enthralling. Back in August,I had the chance to demoPersona 3 Reload. During that session, I got to check out the game’s dungeon crawling and one of the early boss fights, both of which impressed me. But one piece ofPersona 3 ReloadIdidn’tget to test was its social systems, which is arguably what makes a modernPersonagame… well,Persona....

Maybe early access will finally end While I love the idea ofPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the trickle feed of game updates has been really tough. Instead of focusing on improving game stability or locking down on cheaters, PUBG Corp has seeminglybeen puttingits effortstowards monetizationof its highly popular “battle royale” game. It has led to me giving up on playing the game since I’m tired of jumping onto a server and lagging out or getting random micro-stutters during intense gunfights....

DAN DA DANhas quickly emerged as one of the most captivating anime of the Fall 2024 season with its unique blend of humor, supernatural themes, and intense action. The series doesn’t shy away from incorporating real-world paranormal folklore, cleverly transforming well-known legends into vivid, larger-than-life antagonists. For instance, the Serpo Aliens that abducted Momo Ayase. But likeother entities featured in the anime, these aliens aren’t merely the product of creative fiction....

Black Myth: Wukongis inspired byJourney to the West, a Ming Dynasty novel featuring the mighty Sun Wukong, and it draws a lot from the story. Sun Wukong is, without a doubt, one of the most impactful characters in Chinese literature and culture. Outside of being a magical monkey who can do cool things like fly around on a cloud, swing a staff weighing thousands of pounds, and transform himself, one of the reasons for his enduring popularity as a character is that he is a fantastic exploration of duality and contradiction....

Welcome to the next level The SNES Classic has been out a while now and my daughter and I have been enjoying it quite a bit. The best thing about it is the controllers. Having played with a Raspberry Pi, it was tough to find a suitable controller to use in the third-party market. I experimented a lot before finding something I liked, but having dealt with Retro-Bit and reviewed some of their other products, I was excited when they told me they’d send along a couple of new offerings, a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo gamepad, complete with USB and original console ends for me to take a look at....

Let’s say you just made it past theSuper Mario RPGBundt (cake) boss fight in Marrymore, and you’ve returned to the Frog Sage to try and unlock the next area…and nothing happens. Well, you aren’t alone! Here’s how to unlock the next zone in the game (Star Hill). You need to deliver the Cricket Pie to the Frog Sage to unlock Star Hill It’s insane that I completely forgot about this, having playedMario RPGsince it came out, but you can miss something near the beginning of the game that stops the main quest from progressing....