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In a futuristic world where Japanese office workers are forced to toil for 24 hours a day, who will mete out justice to the evil corporation that employs/enslaves them? A “fully armed cyborg heroine” who will shoot and slash those cybernetic employees and the entire evil org chart, in Full Metal Schoolgirl. Full Metal Schoolgirl […]

Video games about mechas just feel right. From flying to shooting giant laser guns, mechas are fun — and it’s the fun behind these giant robots that defines Mecha Break, a PvPvE game that puts you in control of one of these machines. But while Mecha Break presents an easy on-ramp into the mecha genre,

“Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead,” decried Laura Fryer, one of Microsoft Game Studios’ founding employees, in a recent YouTube video. Sparking Fryer’s fear for the hardware legacy of Xbox was Microsoft’s reveal of the ROG Xbox Ally, a collaboration revealed during Summer Game Fest that fluffed a longtime dream of Microsoft Gaming CEO

What is a “next generation” video game? There’s probably never been a definitive answer to this question, but contenders for moments that have pushed the medium forward in a significant way have historically been easy to identify. The jump from pixels to polygons. Solitary experiences versus massively multiplayer games. Open-world games with complex simulations. Split-second

When you say something puts you to sleep, it’s usually A) not true and B) not very nice. Bandai Namco’s Tamagotchi Plaza literally put me to sleep, and it was the best thing that’s happened to me in almost two weeks. For a few weeks at the start of every summer and winter, without fail,

Rare’s long-in-development game Everwild is no more, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle, citing sources at the studio. The enigmatic open-world adventure has been canceled, nearly six years after it was first revealed and after a decade of some form of development on Everwild. News of Everwild’s cancellation arrives amid more layoffs at

Electronic Arts is doubling down on collegiate sports, teasing the return of EA Sports’ college basketball series after more than 15 years on ice. On Monday, the official EA Sports social media account posted “Bring the Madness. Let’s run it back.” but also offered little in the way of concrete details. EA may be trying

The 11th Game Awards, scheduled for Dec. 11, are suddenly wide open. Grand Theft Auto 6, which was previously expected to dominate the Awards this year, has been delayed into 2026. That will make for a much less predictable Game of the Year competition at the leading awards ceremony for the game industry — the

Playing Donkey Kong Bananza recently at a hands-on event in New York, I started to question: Does Donkey Kong have the juice? Yes, Donkey Kong’s new action-adventure game looks great running on Nintendo Switch 2, and the level of environmental destruction made possible by DK’s meaty paws is very technically impressive. But after beating my

It’s official: The team at Nintendo behind 2017’s Super Mario Odyssey is responsible for upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo has confirmed. Nintendo revealed that detail, which many fans had already suspected, during recent hands-on events with Donkey Kong Bananza, saying that the same team that developed Super Mario Odyssey is behind this