After zipping around in Kirby Air Riders for maybe an hour, I rushed back to my apartment to get in a round of Mario Kart World just to see. In the game’s Direct earlier this week, director Masahiro Sakurai said (even if he was just being cheeky) his unlikely GameCube […]
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Hyperkin’s DualSense-Style Xbox Controller is Coming in October
At the beginning of the year, Hyperkin revealed The Competitor, a DualSense-style controller for PCs and Xbox consoles. You know, for competitive gamers. Now, the controller has a price and a release month: Hyperkin tells IGN that it’s coming in October, for just $49.99. The Competitor, as steady IGN readers […]
Kirby Air Riders – The First Preview
After zipping around in Kirby Air Riders for maybe an hour, I rushed back to my apartment to get in a round of Mario Kart World just to see. In the game’s Direct earlier this week, director Masahiro Sakurai said (even if he was just being cheeky) his unlikely GameCube […]
PlayStation Opens Preorders for a Replica of the Guitar From The Last of Us Part II
The PlayStation store is selling guitars now. If you're a fan of Naughty Dog's Last of Us series, either the games or the TV show, you can now preorder a replica of Ellie's guitar that Joel customized with the custom moth inlay fretboard. This guitar was first featured in The […]
Resident Evil: Requiem Trailer Shows Fresh Look at Grace Ashcroft's Backstory, But Where's Leon?
Tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live broadcast has given us a fresh look at Resident Evil: Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft, but no sign of fan-favorite Leon S. Kennedy. As expected, today's show brought with it a deeper dive into Capcom's hotly-anticipated upcoming survival horror (which is also playable here at Gamescom). […]
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 – We FINALLY Played It
It was almost surreal awakening as an ancient monster in Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and getting my first taste of blood. Phyre the Nomad, a semi-customizable character with a fixed backstory, has been asleep for 100 years when she wakes up in modern Seattle – and I feel […]
Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 14 Collaborations Reveal New Content Coming This Fall
Capcom and Square Enix took the stage at gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 to show off a new collaboration that will see Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter Wilds collide. Monster Hunter Wilds Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and Final Fantasy 14 Online Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida (a.k.a. Yoshi-P) showed up […]
Silent Hill f Gamescom Trailer Reveals Suzie Yeung as Hinako
Silent Hill f made an appearance at Gamescom Opening Night Live this evening with a brand new trailer, and our first listen at the English actor portraying main character Hinako, Suzie Yeung. The new trailer opens with Hinako waking up in a dark room, seemingly confused. As she wanders, it […]
Monkey Island's Ron Gilbert Is Making a New Roguelike RPG Where the Scrolling Screen Is Trying to Kill You (Again)
Ron Gilbert, the industry luminary behind multiple Monkey Island games and Thimbleweed Park, is working on anothe rproject, and it's a little different from his usual fare. It's called Death by Scrolling, and it's a roguelike RPG where you're pursued through Purgatory by a constantly-scrolling screen, and Death herself. Shown […]
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is Xbox's First Nintendo Switch 2 Game
The brilliant Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be Microsoft's first game designed for Switch 2, and it'll launch for Nintendo's new console next year. A trailer for the game's upcoming DLC, The Order of Giants, aired tonight during Gamescom Opening Night Live and confirmed the game's Switch 2 […]