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Starbreeze To Reorganize: Laying Off 60 Staff

It has not been a small secret in the industry that Starbreeze has been having issues of late. So much so, that Rockstar decided to step in, paying nearly eight million dollars for a small Indian art studio down the road from…

New Information on Pokemon Sword and Shield

Pokemon is one of the biggest names in modern media, and today Nintendo and Gamefreak aired a Nintendo Direct all about Pokemon Sword and Shield. This direct showed off a host of new features including; seven new Pokemon, the “Wild Area”, and a…

Zelda Trends on Twitter in Fan Debate

The Legend of Zelda is near and dear to a lot of gamers, and ever since the NES days, few characters have made such an impact. Enter a Twitter debate, the choice medium for arguing with total strangers. Those who came late thought…

Watch Dogs: Legion Confirmed For E3

Just the other day I wrote a very long, very strenuous, and quite hyperbolic editorial, partially about the games I want to see and generally my version of “this is the best outcome.” In that article, I wrote about the highly unlikely…

Twitch Prime Loot For June

Let’s say I was somewhat entirely against last month‘s Prime subscription; Twitch and Amazon would have to do something significant this time to “redeem” themselves. I’ve made it no small secret that I haven’t been too enamored with their complete lack of…

Highly Anticipated Shenmue 3 Delayed

The long awaited and partly crowdfunded Shenmue 3 has, yet again, been delayed. Its release date has been pushed out of August and into the busy line up on November 19th. Creator of the Shenmue series Yu Suzuki had this to say about the delay…

Hitman 2 – June Roadmap Revealed

Roadmaps are the new thing in games. These “features” could be added prior to launch or a proper big Expansion Pack, however, are left to be added in weekly or monthly updates. In short, I’m personally not a fan of them. Nonetheless,…

GOG & Epic Offering Free Games

I must say, I have been a little too busy to keep up with all of the free games and content on several gaming storefronts. I could argue that this was as a result of Steam’s confusing stance of “spring cleaning” last…

Gato Roboto Brings One-Bit Metroidvania Action

One-bit visuals seem deceptively simple to make, but are actually difficult to pull off. One-bit games embrace absolute minimalism with a color palette only consisting of one color. This color scheme is typically white, set against a black background. It was the…

SINoALICE Gets Global Launch Window

It’s no secret that Square-Enix has a lot of mobile games. Most of them are ports of console games of varying quality, though they have a few gacha games; mainly based on the Final Fantasy franchise. One of their mobile games, however,…