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When looking back at classic adventure games like Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, there’s a few things that come to mind. There’s the swashbuckling action, complex puzzles, and far-reaching exploration, and even surprisingly deep lore all wrapped up in a whimsical fairytale aesthetic. The Cat Quest series, from Singapore-based team …

For years, the Silent Hill franchise has withered while developer Konami made imprudent efforts to dump the legendary horror IP into bad movie schlock and slot machines. So, fans treated the announcement that Polish studio Bloober Team would helm a remake of 2001’s franchise peak Silent Hill 2 with the …

Few fighting game series have the longevity and popularity of Tekken. From its inception in 1994, its core gameplay mechanics have stayed consistent through many iterations, while also building upon it with updated features. This allowed for the movement, skill, and knowledge that players accumulated throughout the years to carry …

Fighting games have a reputation of being extremely difficult, too mentally taxing, and mechanically prohibitive to newcomers. While fighters at their core are no more complex than other genres, many different fighting games have tried to become more welcoming to a wider audience, while working to keep the same depth …

Back when it launched in February, I was sure Helldivers 2, Sony’s first big punt at a multiplayer live-service game, was doomed. Little interest ahead of its release, and the lack of marketing from Sony made it seem like it was set to be a pretty mediocre experience that PlayStation …

It’s 2004 in Pomona, California, and 700 people are gathered in a hall at California State Polytechnic University to compete in a fighting-game tournament. From across 30 countries, fans of the era’s biggest games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament have piled into the venue for their …

Good news for Donald Trump if he was hoping to catch a livestream of the Evo 2024 tournament this weekend: Twitch announced Friday that it has reinstated the former president’s channel after banning him from the platform in 2021. Just weeks after the “guardrails” on Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts …

In an industry rife with remakes, remasters, and re-releases, few companies have mastered the art of repacking leftovers for a nostalgia-driven appetite than Nintendo. With games like 1985’s NES classic Super Mario Bros. reissued dozens of times over four decades, even the youngest players are familiar with the look, feel, …

“Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop.” Those five words are among the most memorable of all the vicious punches thrown by Kendrick Lamar in his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” — and now, they have inspired a video game. Not Like Us: The Game is a web-based whack-a-mole clone based …

As gloomy as the ambiance of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess can be, you’re constantly challenging it with a colorful celebration. Fireworks are a recurring motif, symbolizing the accomplished feats of your journey as you help cleanse villages and shrines from the threat of Yokai-inspired foes — supernatural entities and …