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In today’s remake and nostalgia-driven market, there’s no franchise too big or small to be trotted out in the town to help bolster fiscal earnings. Some, like Capcom’s Resident Evil or Square Enix’s Final Fantasy manage to go the extra mile, churning out high-quality remakes and new sequels in tandem …

It’s safe to say that It Takes Two was a breakout success for Swedish developer Hazelight Studios. The co-op action adventure won “Game of the Year” at The Game Awards in 2021 and has since gone on to sell 20 million copies in four years — an impressive feat for …

For players of a certain age, the beat ‘em up genre will forever be the pinnacle of gaming. Popularized first in arcades, then cemented at home during the Sega Genesis and SNES era, games like Golden Axe and Streets of Rage were a staple of cooperative action gameplay for a …

I t’s a frosty January night in New York City, but Madison Square Garden is red hot. You feel the heat when pillars of flame spit out from black butane tanks that encircle a half-domed stage. The thunder of swag rock is drowned out by the dog-whistle cheers of 20,000 …

In the ever-saturated media landscape, blockbuster franchises are a dime a dozen, and video games are no different. Between perennial favorites releasing sequels annually, slews of nostalgia-driven remakes and remasters, and an entire ecosystem of live-service games — themselves amounting to nearly half of all games played daily — everyone …

Amidst the surge in video game sales, the awkward moments of Zoom meetings, and the hurricane of depressing and horrific news during the COVID-19 pandemic, the small team at 1047 Games was busy finishing up its first big shooter, Splitgate. It began life as a project in a college dorm …

Monster Hunter is a series whose name explains it all. In each of the more than two dozen games in the franchise, you hunt monsters. A lot. Then you craft better armor and weapons from the pieces of hunted monsters — a process that’s less grisly than it sounds — …

Before Fortnite took over the gaming world with celebrity skins and virtual concerts, it gained notoriety as a breakout in the battle royale genre. But Epic Game’s soon-to-be cultural juggernaut wasn’t exactly a pioneer — it was more like a copycat — with the “battle royale” elements added to the …

Two types of people will likely play Elden Ring Nightreign, FromSoftware’s upcoming roguelike multiplayer spin-off and the studio’s first standalone multiplayer game. One type will understand that exploring the map and challenging enemies together is safer and far more effective than zooming off alone. The other will see a dragon, …

To be a Like a Dragon fan is to be a gamer spoiled for choice. Since 2005, the franchise (formerly known as Yakuza), has seen nine mainline entries and 14 spin-offs, making it Sega’s long-running action roleplaying game series. With near-annual releases, it’s almost inescapable at this point, with older …