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If you’ve ever wanted to kill someone with a leaf and adopt a wolf puppy, now is your chance: Soulframe’s pre-alpha build is open to the public for a limited time. Soulframe: Preludes is being made available to anyone who has signed up on the Soulframe website as part of developer Digital Extremes’ TennoCon weekend […]

Donkey Kong Bananza is finally here, as is some clarity about where it might fit into the Donkey Kong timeline and why Nintendo’s original damsel-in-distress Pauline appears as a much younger version of herself. But questions still abound about how, you know, the events of 1981’s Donkey Kong fit into all this. And while Bananza’s

Recently, I had the chance to play Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition, a new iteration of Obsidian Entertainment’s 2006 CRPG that faithfully adapted the rules of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e, which was the standard of the time. While I was not particularly impressed by the work Aspyr has done on this updated version of the

Take a peek at this year’s video game release calendar and you can spot a few 2025 trends starting to form. We’re seeing the return of the kart racer thanks to Mario Kart World, with Sonic Crossworlds and Kirby Air Riders following close behind. Soccer is having a moment thanks to Despelote and Rematch, the

If 2023’s pretty good RoboCop first-person shooter RoboCop: Rogue City left you wanting more, developer Teyon’s follow-up — part expansion, part sequel — offers exactly that… and little more. While it’s still great fun to step into the exoskeleton of Detroit’s cyborg policeman and squish bad guys’ heads with Robo’s Auto-9 handcannon, Unfinished Business does

CD Projekt Red revealed Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.3 update is slated to arrive on July 17 and that the patch focuses on vehicles and customizations. Update 2.3 will add three new cars and the first new customizable motorcycle in the game. Each new vehicle can be unlocked by completing quests, which Cyberpunk 2 Associate Game Director

It’s been three months since Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched, and I still can’t stop thinking about and playing it. Clair Obscur’s story is excellent, and developer Sandfall Interactive crafted a combat system that is tremendously layered, with its party members’ abilities easily synergizing, and also tremendously challenging, at times. More than a few times

It’s World Emoji Day and Apple is celebrating with a new puzzle game available now on its Apple News+ app in the U.S. and Canada. Emoji Game is an original word game that has players fill in incomplete phrases by dragging emoji into blank spots. Developed internally at Apple, Emoji Game is now the fifth

Console launches are chaotic endeavors, and the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch was exactly that, right up to surprise snacks appearing alongside some new Switches. Chaos was most prevalent, perhaps, at a GameStop in New York City (specifically Staten Island) where dozens of consoles were ruined by staples that pierced the screens. The story goes that

New seasons of Apex Legends always bring with them new plot developments and narrative threads to tug at. In this season, for instance, a new haute couture-themed event has just gone live, and to promote the game’s latest premium cosmetics, Respawn has posted a set of four in-universe magazine covers, each featuring a different playable