New Report Lays Out How Skull & Bones Entered and Stayed in Development Hell

Skull & Bones, the once-was Assassin’s Creed spin-off centered around Black Flag’s ship combat ultimately turned into its own game, hasn’t seen the light of day in a hot minute. And a new report from Kotaku explains why: the game has been going through development hell for years thanks to repeated changes…

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Pokémon Go Fest 2021’s Musical Event Strikes the Right Note

This year’s Pokémon Go Fest, taking place between July 17-18, had the unfortunate and difficult job of straddling the weird middle ground between the world getting back to “normal” following a year of global lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Not to mention it had to be extra cautious as…

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FEATURES

You Could Kill Someone With ‘A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games’

I’m not a big Japanese role-playing game person. I didn’t understand them when I was a kid, and having never owned a Sony console until the PS4, I missed out on most of the classics of the 90s and 2000s. Even today I don’t get around to playing them much,…

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Gets an Animated Show

There was a time where PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was poised to be the biggest game in the world. While its star has faded a bit in the years, partially due to its community and developers butting heads over the state of the game and also the overcrowding of battle royales with newer…

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Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Could Come to Other Systems if Demand is High

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, a collection of the first six Final Fantasy games, is coming to Steam and mobile devices when it launches next week on July 28. But Square-Enix isn’t opposed to putting it on consoles if there’s demand for it. Which there certainly is, so let’s hope that the…

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Death’s Door Tells a Tragic Tale of Limitless Life

I don’t think I can do this. In one of the final battles, I’m forced to use every piece of equipment in my pockets in a desperate attempt to match the pace of this boss, and I’m failing. It’s a lot to manage at once!  He’s summoned up an arsenal…

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REVIEWS

Episode 30: Trevor Henderson

Horror artist Trevor Henderson, creator of Siren Head and innumerable other nightmares, performs the necessary ritual to access The K-Hole. While fleeing a serial killer, he and merritt discuss algorithmically designed YouTube videos, The Tale of the Dead Man's Float, the scariest killer in film, counterfeit toys of his characters,…

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In Cris Tales, Time Travel is More Than a Gimmick

I’m working my way through Dreams Uncorporated’s RPG Cris Tales, and in the hours I’ve put in so far, I’m still enraptured by its take on time manipulation, and how it integrates that into everything you do. Cris Tales stars Crisbell, a young orphan who finds herself central to a…

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‘SNKRX’ is as Good as it is Unpronouncable

When I was a kid, I loved playing Snake on my dad’s chunky old Nokia cellphone. When I got my first cell in college, it cam with a lousy 3D update of Snake that ran terribly and couldn’t recapture the elegant simplicity of the original. It’s taken over a decade,…

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Danganronpa Decadence Just Puts the Series’ Mastermind Front and Center, Huh?

The following will contain spoilers for the Danganronpa series. Reader discretion is advised. As we get closer to Danganronpa Decadence, the collection of murder mystery visual novels on Switch, I feel like either I’m just very honed in on things that might reveal hidden truths about these games, or Spike Chunsoft is…

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Ubisoft Announces Free-to-Play Tom Clancy Shooter Days After Court Harassment Complaint

Ubisoft has announced a new free-to-play shooter set in the Tom Clancy universe called XDefiant, a class-based shooter. The game is a 6v6 shooter with classes based on groups within the Tom Clancy stable, including Echelon, Outcasts, Cleaners, and Wolves. The game will launch on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox…

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Mountain Dew Major Melon Star Comes Home: WWE Money in the Bank Recap and Review

While it wasn’t a fight to the top of Titan Towers, this year’s Money in the Bank had a lot going for it. Even if the show was terrible, the return of actual people in the stands could elevate a D List PPV to at least a C-. And while…

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