Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in…

Monkey Bomb Tag codes May 2026

Though they won’t help boost your skill in this high-risk game of animal agility, the new Monkey Bomb Tag codes below will at least score you some free gems to spruce up your chimp. Monkey Bomb Tag is an easy enough game to understand. It’s elimination tag. Blended with the high-flying acrobatics of our closest…

No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious

Jacob Fox, PhD in Philosophy, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Flitting between a 600 Hz TN, 320 Hz IPS, and 280 Hz OLED monitor to test which is best for competitive gaming in CS2. And pondering philosophical conundrums between rounds, of course. A couple of months ago, I listened to Richard…

Nobody remembers legendary Marvel writer Chris Claremont’s totally unhinged 2001 X-Men comic

You could be forgiven for forgetting that X-Treme X-Men ever happened. After all, it was running concurrently with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, which is widely regarded as one of the best X-Men comics of all time. X-Treme X-Men might not be the best, but it’s certainly one of the weirdest, and that has to count…

Psychonauts Maker Double Fine Forms Latest Union At Microsoft

Developers at the long-running game studio Double Fine, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, are forming a union. The group, which is best known for Psychonauts and just recently released the pottery battle game Kiln on Game Pass, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7 on behalf of…

Absent a Left 4 Dead 3, modders have just turned Team Fortress 2 into COD Zombies instead

If Valve isn’t going to bring us Left 4 Dead 3 any time soon, we’ll just have to get our zombie game fix elsewhere, and Mann Versus Zombies is looking like just what I need. This total-conversion mod for Team Fortress 2 transforms the multiplayer shooter into a gradually escalating horde survival experience akin to…

Box Art Brawl – Bubsy In Claws Encounters Of The Furred Kind (SNES)

Feature “Stop Tagging Us About Bubsy!” – Fabraz On Being Bullied Into Reviving A Maligned Mascot “We were blown away by the reception” News Bubsy 4D Gets A Free Demo, Available Now On Switch 1 & 2 Get rolling North America Image: Accolade / Launchbox So this is almost certainly the most recognisable box art…

Super Mario World, The Legend Of Zelda Director Takashi Tezuka Retiring From Nintendo

Takashi Tezuka, the storied director behind games like The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario World, is retiring from Nintendo, the company has revealed. In Nintendo’s latest fiscal report, there is a note titled “Announcement of Personnel Changes of Company Officers,” and within it, news that Tezuka, an executive officer at the company, is retiring…

Fan Updates Nirvanna The Band’s Wii Shop Song For Current Gen

Like most retro gaming fiends, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol were eating well in the Wii era. Better known as Nirvanna the Band, the two uploaded comedy shorts online before landing a TV show and hit feature film. This included a musical tribute to all the games you could play on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. 15…

The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle

Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn | Reveal Trailer – YouTube Watch On While it’s great to see tabletop RPGs get turned into videogame RPGs—that’s how we got Planescape: Torment and Shadowrun: Dragonfall after all—it’s also interesting to see them be adapted into other forms, shapeshifting like some kind of, I don’t know, werewolf? What I’m…