Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Wants A Street Fighter Crossover

Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were the Coke and Pepsi of fighting games in the ’90s. I don’t know why we pitched them against one another. Maybe adopting the console war language of Nintendo vs. Sega was the easiest way for young minds to analogize the differences between the Capcom fighter and its U.S.-developed counterpart….

Missing in action for ten years, deception-driven WW2 RTS game RUSE is suddenly back on Steam

I feel like I’ve been pulled back to my university dorm room and days spent hunched around our PCs, engaging in LAN games of Starcraft 2 and Command and Conquer Generals. One of the winners from that heyday of RTS games was RUSE, which laid its WW2 conflicts out with incredible visual style, dropping you…

Another ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’ Is Punching Our Way This July

We’re getting another ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’, folks. This time, the folks over at Imagineer at releasing Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition on 16th July 2026. Nintendo will be handling publishing duties internationally, though no pricing information has been released at this time. For those in Japan, the full…

PS Store Dropped a Great PS5 Adventure Game and It’s Cheap

The PS Store has just dropped a new cozy PS5 narrative adventure game at a great price, and there’s even a launch discount on top of that. Published by Curve Digital and developed by two-person studio Patattie Games, Wax Heads is a unique game about working at a record store. New PS5 adventure game Wax…

Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot

Released in 1981, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first grid-based first-person RPG—what we nowadays call blobbers—and it proved enormously influential. Its art was rudimentary: the monochrome dungeon halls were a series of white lines carefully placed to simulate the feeling of moving through a three-dimensional environment. Leaving the ruggedness of its…

Nintendo Announces Surprise Remake Of Star Fox 64 For Switch 2 And It Looks Fine

Star Fox is Nintendo’s next exclusive for the Switch 2, and it’s a remake of Star Fox 64 on the original Nintendo 64. Nintendo revealed the game in a surprise Star Fox Direct, which shadow-dropped without any warning on Wednesday. The game’s existence uncharacteristically leaked ahead of time last month. The game appears to retread the levels…

All Star Fox games that the new Star Fox game is technically a remake of

On Wednesday, Nintendo announced the next Star Fox game with approximately, oh, five minutes of lead time. Star Fox (2026) will be released June 25 for Nintendo Switch 2, and is based on Star Fox 64, Fox McCloud’s 1997 showing on Nintendo 64. It is but one of many remakes (or reimaginations, or recreations, or…

Doom The Dark Ages ray tracing might have killed your frame rate, but at least it saved id 110GB of disk space

id has revealed that, if it hadn’t updated its idtech engine to use ray tracing instead of pre-baked global illumination, Doom: The Dark Ages could have taken far longer to develop and been a much larger install size. The company has claimed that just the pre-baked lighting data for all the game’s maps/environments could have…

Lego Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Includes Goofy Michael Caine Tweet Reference

Later this month, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going to mash-up aspects of the iconic hero’s comic book, TV, and movie incarnations into a single story. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is also heavily referenced in the game, including a callback to the first film by Michael Caine, the actor who portrayed…

Mina The Hollower Finally Launches Later This Month

Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games has finally revealed a new release date for its long-awaited retro-inspired action game, Mina the Hollower. Thankfully, it’s only a few weeks away, as the game arrives on May 29th. First announced in February 2022, Mina the Hollower draws inspiration from top-down Zelda, Castlevania, and sports an 8-bit presentation…