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Umineko When They Cry Pop-Up Shop Opens in Tokyo This October With New Character Artwork and Merchandise
A new Umineko When They Cry pop-up shop will open in Tokyo this October, featuring merchandise based on newly created character illustrations. The event will run from October 1 through October 14, 2026, at the Shinjuku Market Space outside the Central East Gate of JR Shinjuku Station. Online sales...
Playground Games' devs were so confident in Fable, they made me play the Gamescom demo twice
"We don't want to spoil anything," associate game director Will Kennedy as I started my much-anticipated Fable preview at Gamescom this year, "but we've got two very different loadouts for you to play with today." So began the hour-long, behind-closed-doors demo, the first time anyone outside...
How to Heal in The Blood of Dawnwalker
In The Blood of Dawnwalker, understanding how to heal Coen inside and outside combat is absolutely essential for mastering the core gameplay loop.
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush (PS5) Review
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is the latest Hot Wheels video game venture, giving players of all ages a robust sandbox to get lost in, bringing the joy of collecting little toy cars to a game console near you. Outside of a distinct memory of playing with a single metallic Hot Wheels car during an...
BioWare doesn't need advice for Mass Effect 4, says veteran designer, as long as "people get out of the way"
Original Mass Effect cinematic designer and Mass Effect 2 lead cinematic designer Armando Troisi has insisted the current BioWare team doesn't need outside advice on developing the next installment because so many of the people who built the original trilogy are still at the studio. Read more
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier adds a new spaceship refueler module and applies changes to various items
If you’re among those who are trying to survive in the harshness of EVE Frontier’s blockchain space, then you likely already know about changes made to the survival MMO this week. If you happen to be on the outside looking in, then know that there were changes made to the survival MMO this week....
Village in the Shade Preview – A Farming Sim That Doesn’t Want You Outside After Dark
What is someone supposed to think when a cozy farming game tells you not to leave the house at night? A peaceful village, a patch of land to call your own, and a routine built around crops and neighbors all sound familiar enough, but once curfews, strange voices, and warnings about strangers enter...
Burger King releases Nutella & Biscoff ice cream burgers and the internet is losing its mind
Burger King has transformed its signature sandwich into an ice cream dessert, and fans outside France are already demanding a taste.
Final Fantasy 9 Officially Returns September 2026 For 25th Anniversary
Final Fantasy 9 is often hailed as one of the best games in the series, and it isn't hard to see why. However, despite being a truly tremendous release and offering a remarkably memorable narrative, little has been done with it outside of a few cameos for its core cast and appearances in...
D&D Says Universes Beyond Is Designed To Bring In New Players, Not Push Out Existing Fans
Universes Beyond has been a major hit for Wizards of the Coast (WotC), as drawing outside intellectual properties like Final Fantasy into Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons has brought new audiences to those tabletop experiences. But what about the core games that serve as a foundation for...
After 38 years, Konami's never-localized Castlevania-meets-Goonies NES crossover has returned as a Roblox clone
Today's Konami Press Start showcase was relatively low-key, but there was one game showcased that absolutely blew my mind – just not, necessarily, in a good way. Konami Wai Wai World Craft is a modern reimagining of a wild NES platformer that was never released outside of Japan. Normally, I'm all...
Maquette Developers Announce Reality-Shifting Puzzle Adventure ‘Uncanyon’
Graceful Decay and Annapurna Interactive have announced the puzzle-focused adventure game Uncanyon. The project reunites the teams behind the recursive puzzle game Maquette. Players control Sonia, an outsider who arrives in Uncanyon looking for excitement. The setting was formed where multiple...
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is even more of a throwback as it brings back a PS2 staple – having better box art outside of the US
Gamers in the US are being taken back to the PS2 era as the Japanese and European box art of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is way better than the US release. While everything is pretty standardized nowadays, video game box art used to vary a ton depending on which region you were in. Crash Bandicoot...
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is even more of a throwback as it brings back a PS2 staple – having better box art outside of the US
The US box art is still good, though
How Double Fine is charting its destiny outside of Xbox, starting with a Kickstarter campaign | Tim Schafer interview
Tim Schafer, CEO of Double Fine Productions, has been busy dealing with a lot of change in the past couple of months, but he has successfully extracted his studio from Microsoft and he is once again running it as an independent game studio. During the process, he didn’t lose his sense of humor, as...
SteamDB’s owner sells the site to popular mod repository Nexus Mods while admitting to burnout
If you’re a PC gamer of nearly any stripe, you’re likely very familiar with Nexus Mods, one of the biggest places to find mods for a wide assortment of titles both inside and outside of our sphere. We also likely don’t have to tell our readers about SteamDB, one of the primary sources for player […]
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance shows off the new Boost mechanic, and every Devil May Cry fan is thinking the same thing
Capcom has released some more footage of Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance's new Boost Bracer mechanic, and Devil May Cry fans are all thinking the same thing. The Capcom Showcase later this month surely has to show more of Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance, given that – outside of Mega Man: Dual...
GTA 5's Nopixel V Roleplay Server Release Explained
Grand Theft Auto 5has undergone countless changes and complete transformations over the 13 years since its initial release, but outside of limited-time events or new activities, Los Santos itself hasn't really changed all that much. While this does mean returning to GTA 5 is just as nostalgic as...
GTA 6's story is too important for Rockstar to let you swap between Lucia and Jason whenever you want
Outside of the story, however, you'll be free to swap whenever.
Digital Manga Platform MangaPlaza Surpasses 1 Million Members, Launches Month-Long Celebration Campaign
NTT Solmare announced that its digital manga platform, MangaPlaza, surpassed 1 million members following its fourth anniversary earlier this year. The service launched in March 2022 and provides officially licensed Japanese manga to readers outside Japan. Its library has expanded to include...
POCO F9 Ultra Smartphone Review
I’ve been a Samsung owner for more than a decade, happily settled into the ecosystem and never venturing much outside it. The POCO F9 Ultra made me rethink my ways. It’s a fantastic flagship device that stands shoulder to shoulder with many of the greats. While it’s not perfect, there’s enough...
Off the AppStore: Droning bureaucracy in The Registry
Welcome to Off The AppStore, a weekly feature with a twist. Namely, that while these - as with all the games we cover here - are games that you can play on your phone, they're ones that operate outside of the realms of the big two ways to play: The Google Play Store and the Apple AppStore. That...
Legends of Aria Eternal arrives to Steam September 10 with a box price and dedicated server capability
As of this past July, if you wanted to play Legends of Aria Eternal, the second rebooted version of the original Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG, you had to join a playtest that was opened to original backers and buyers. If you happen to have been among those on the outside looking in, we’ve got good...
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
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