On Tuesday, during Xbox’s extended showcase event, the first trailer for High on Knife—a new DLC for comedy shooter High on Life—was shown. However, Kenny, a gun voiced by former Squanch Games CEO and Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, is absent. Roiland resigned from the company in January 2023, shortly after domestic abuse allegations
McDonald’s, purveyor of refrigerated cheese and meat patties, is getting into the video game business to celebrate original character Grimace’s 52nd birthday. The hairy purple blob inspired a side-scrolling platformer that runs on mobile, desktop, and most surprisingly, Game Boy Color, and McDonald’s released it for free on June 12. The Week In Games: Dragon
People are (rightfully) losing their minds over the fact that Google has a built-in Katamari minigame that lets you roll everything on the page into a tidy ball that’d impress the King of the Cosmos. HD-2D, The Unique Retro-Inspired Art Style, Took Off In 2022 After searching “Katamari” in Google, a widget will appear, allowing
Image: CD Projekt Red When Cyberpunk: Edgerunners launched on Netflix, it made a huge plot point out of cyberpsychosis. In the world of Cyberpunk, this is the idea that as a person augments their body with cybernetics, they will eventually affect their sanity and ability to function. The Anime Series With Better Metaverses Than Meta,
Embracer Group, a Swedish holding company, has spent the last several years buying up some of the best known studios from Gearbox (Borderlands) to Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider) and willing itself into becoming one of the biggest publishers in gaming. Now, after suddenly losing out on $2 billion in funding, the sprawling conglomerate says it
Microsoft revealed some exciting new first-party games like InExile’s Clockwork Revolution and Compulsion Games South of Midnight at its June 11 Xbox Showcase. But others like Fable and Avowed were first teased years ago and still don’t have clear release dates. What’s taking so long? Thank You, PS Plus, For Making My Backlog Even Bigger
When I opened Twitch the other day to watch the Ubisoft Forward presentation, I saw something new and unexpected in my list of “live channels we think you’ll like.” Maybe it’s all that AI Seinfeld I watched once upon a time that influenced the algorithm but now, Twitch was recommending to me an artificially intelligent
Bethesda is known for making some of the most ambitious and immersive open world role playing games ever. But it also has a reputation for games that struggle with long lists of bugs or performance issues at launch. Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty doesn’t think that will be the case this time around with
If you missed the Xbox and Bethesda showcase at Summer Game Fest, you missed some cool games and a whole lot of Starfield at the end. It was the most we’ve seen of Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG, and even as a person who doesn’t usually love the studio’s games, it looks pretty rad. I love
Sonic Superstars feels like what the Sonic series has been working toward for years but hasn’t quite had the courage to do until now. The series has been leaning hard into nostalgia surrounding its speedy, 2D platforming roots with games like Sonic Mania reimagining old levels and Sonic Origins repackaging them for a new audience.