Month: June 2021

Earlier today, Sony announced it had acquired Returnal developer Housemarque. GQ Magazine managed to get together with Housemarque Cofounder Ilari Kuittinen and Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst to discuss the deal. Kuittinen confirmed this will now allow them to be even more ambitious with their games, while Hulst denied they’re now in a race
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Have you ever considered a career as a stunt driver? Crash Drive 3 is your ultimate arcade driving playground, where you can take the wheel of everything from race cars and monster trucks to fire engines and tanks! Explore an open world full of larger than life places that are perfect for wild racing and
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Earlier this month, our own Kimberly Wallace wrote up a delightful feature on why gamers should check out the beloved Legend of Mana RPG franchise (if they haven’t already) with the hopes of even more adventures on the way. It looks like she’s getting her wish because Square Enix has announced a new Legends of
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Speed Golf is a fun addition, but a poor adventure mode, a slight selection of courses and low replayability results in Mario Golf: Super Rush being an underwhelming entry into the series. Mario Golf: Super Rush is out on Nintendo Switch June 25th 2021.
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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
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Rainbow Six Extraction creative director Patrik Méthé has said that the upcoming title and Rainbow Six Siege are two “very different” games and he doesn’t foresee a scenario where having both games out in stores will impact each other’s player base. Speaking to GameSpot, Méthé argued that Extraction and Siege both offer different challenges and different
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Legend of Mana reviewed on Nintendo Switch by Seth Macy. Also available on PlayStation. The Legend of Mana of 2021 is as close to the original version as you could hope for while still bringing this classic original PlayStation JRPG into the modern era. The sprite work is timeless, and the newly redrawn widescreen backgrounds
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Nintendo’s mobile title Mario Kart Tour will soon be getting another content update. Ahead of the launch, it’s been revealed as a new (but old) track – Cheep-Cheep Island from the Game Boy Advance generation. Yes, it’s another course from the 2001 title, Mario Kart: Super Circuit. This track originally appeared in the Lightning Cup
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What makes a good visual novel? If your answer is ‘there’s no such thing’, then now’s the time to back away. Cross the Moon is very much visual, very much a novel. If your answer is ‘dialogue choices and multiple paths, leading to different endings’, then Cross the Moon is also a no-go. There’s zero
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Scarlet Nexus is an ambitious action RPG that blends the disparate genres of the character action and epic JRPGs along the lines of Persona and the “Tales of” series. The result is a surprising mix that hits far more often than it misses. Reviewed by Mitchell Saltzman on PlayStation 5. Also available on PlayStation 4,
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Brace yourselves, Vault Hunters, because Borderlands 3 cross play is here! Thanks to today’s free update, cross play is now available for Borderlands 3 across Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Mac, Stadia, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. There has never been a better time for you and your friends to experience
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I’m no stranger to mucking in on a farm, having spent many hours on the authentic experiences delivered by the likes of Farming Simulator 19 and Professional Farmer 2017. These simulation titles really capture the toughest aspects of agriculture, to the point where you feel as if you’ve actually put in a shift. Sometimes though,
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Look at me: I am the captain now. After watching Dan Tack wipe the floor with Bloodborne in our last Super Replay, it’s time that I, Marcus Stewart, do the same with its successor, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Released in 2019 to critical acclaim, this tough-as-nails ninja epic flipped the FromSoftware formula on its head
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this week, AMD launched FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). FidelityFX is nominally AMD’s response to DLSS, and while it works on different principles than Nvidia’s upscaling network, both features are positioned as performance enhancers that can reduce the amount of
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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I heartily appreciate it whenever a game manages to be cinematic and tell a story without ever getting in the player’s way. I think of it as “the Doom approach”. The beauty of this accomplishment is
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the very first Sonic the Hedgehog game. Sonic 1 released on the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991, and even though SEGA and Nintendo have since become good friends in the decades that followed that intense 90s rivalry, the blue blur’s legacy hasn’t been forgotten. In fact, Famitsu has an
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DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power reviewed on Nintendo Switch by Sarah LeBoeuf. Narration by Max Scoville. Even if it doesn’t do anything new or exciting, DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power has its charms. The heroes and villains of Metropolis High School are endearing and expertly brought to life by their voice actors, though
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