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A single-minded new Deadlock update targets its teamfight-trashing unicorn
Valve’s latest Deadlock update is a singularly focused adjustment for Celeste, with reduction to her early game power and an ultimate nerf.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's first beta patch adds a new map and mode, as Infinity Ward responds to complaints about footstep noise and weapon lethality
Cachette and Inflation join the fray as Infinity Ward adjusts footsteps and gun damage.
What's your video game happy place?
We all have our happy places: somewhere - real or otherwise - to escape, relax, and replenish away from the stresses of the modern world. Perhaps yours is in nature, lost in the reverie of a spirited hike up a windy hill, or sweatily squatting your cares away amid the pounding Daruda Sandstorms of your local gym. Perhaps your demands are simpler: the call of a good book and an escape into the realm of imagination, or the familiar celluloid embrace of a favourite film, or - as I finally drag this intro into relevance - the soothing rhythms of a beloved video game. And hopefully it's the last one, because that's what we're talking about today. Read more
Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: SimCity (SNES)
If we build it... Hello, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! Last week, we checked out WarioWare Smooth Moves for the Wii, and it really just boiled down to which colour to happen to prefer. In the end, Europe's yellow cover won with 52% of the vote. North America's pink design came second with 32%, and Japan's orange design trailed at 16%. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The Sunday Papers
Sometimes, Sundays are only for rounding up videogame criticism and journalism. I try to cast a wider net when my turn comes to deliver the Papers, because I figure you've probably been reading about videogames all week, and would appreciate e.g. an essay on the mating habits of snails or the top 7 most elaborate UFO conspiracies, but this Sunday, there are no snails or UFOs within easy dredge. So instead, please accept a boatload of finest mitherings on Duke Nukem , oracular visual novels, sociable space sims, and 'search action' games. Read more
Video: Metal Gear Solid 4 Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch 2, PS5, PS3)
Master Collection Vol. 2 launches next week. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 launches on the Switch 2 (and Switch) on 27th August 2026 , and as we've previously mentioned, MGS4 is finally free from PS3 exclusivity . YouTube channel 'ElAnalistaDeBits ' has now released a side-by-side graphics comparison, showcasing the Switch 2 version of this game alongside the original PlayStation 3 release as well as the new PlayStation 5 version. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The dungeoncrawler where you really can roll to seduce the dragon has been delayed until next year
September was looking pretty full anyway, Rizz Dungeon.
Can the Epic Games Store turn things around? 'I don't see how they can recover at this point,' says Newzoo analyst
Adding features to the storefront and making its launcher run more smoothly might be too little, too late.
SWG lead's new MMO, Stars Reach, almost lost me—until I met an animal conservationist mayor
Too much space to grow.
Raise up a mech pilot and make sure she doesn't get Evangelion-level depressed in the sci-fi visual novel Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator
Raising sims aren't a genre I've partaken in, partially because so many of them are geared towards a sort of father, daughter vibe that doesn't quite fit me. Raising a mech pilot, however, seems like something a bit more my speed, so you won't be surprised to hear of my interest in Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator, a visual novel with a name that seems to do what it says in the tin. Read more
Chromatic aberration is made manifest in NECHROMIA, a high contrast survival horror set in a castle made of something else's memories
Look, I love a PS1 horror throwback as much as the next whatever Gonzo is , but they don't all have to look like Silent Hill or Resident Evil, do they? There have been some aesthetic divergences in the renewed interest in the pseudo-genre, like with 2024's excellent and queer as hell Sorry We're Closed , but I'm hungry for more. Hence my interest in NEHCROMIA, a high-contrast survival horror set in a castle made of memories that aren't yours (a seizure warning is in order for the trailer below). Read more
Yoniq Duo Is A New Dual-Screen Retro Handheld On The Block With A Stylus
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! It's not often the retro handheld emulation scene gets a new brand entering the fray, and so aggressively too. Typically, they start as a passion project
A New $230 RetroTink Is Finally Here With 1440p Upscaling
An upcoming RetroTink product has been teased for a while now, but today marks the day that it has been officially revealed. For those new to the RetroTink scene, it's simply a high-quality accessory for retro game consoles that converts your low-quality analogue video and upscales
Tulpa the Unseen Lover is a psychological visual novel about a depressed manga artist manifesting a cute, ominous anime girl made by former Spider-Verse animators
It's very rare that I'm not thinking about the works of Satoshi Kon (pop on Tokyo Godfathers this Christmas, you won't regret it), but the one that I always come back to is Opus. It's a manga the director made in the mid '90s that he ultimately never finished before his death, following a manga artist who gets sucked into his own creation and forced to deal with the consequences of his writing. Tulpa the Unseen Lover, a psychological visual novel made by former Spider-Verse animators, is sort of like that, only in this case it's about a manga creator bringing an anime girl to life in his mind. Read more
Gorgeous and hazy pixel art horror farming sim Neverway has been pushed to 2027, but you can at least have a gander at some of the NPCs you can smooch
Sorry folks, some bad news: Neverway , the horror life sim and RPG combo from one of the artists behind Celeste and the composer of Fez , has been delayed into 2027. While it never had an exact release date anyway, developer Coldblood Inc. shared word of the delay in a Steam blog post earlier this week. Read more
Compulsion Games' buyout is complete, so now Microsoft won't get a cut if you buy South of Midnight
An Xbox Game Studio no more.
GTA 6 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are "the north stars of gaming," says Gamescom chief, but they won't last forever because "most gamers aren't only interested in a single game"
Rockstar is very good at making games, but that doesn't mean they're for everyone
A Modern Warfare 4 beta update nerfs footsteps, and adds a new map and mode
The first Modern Warfare 4 beta patch notes reduce footstep sounds, nerf the ISO Nightshade and Oris 8.6, and add Cachette and Inflation.
Introducing The RetroTINK 6x CE
Mike Chi has just released the RetroTINK 6x CE: A $230 RetroTINK that’s almost as powerful as the 4K RetroTINK’s. This video goes over everything you’d need to know before purchasing, as well as how it compares to other options. Purchase Here: https://retrorgb.link/6xce Other RetroTINK products: https://retrorgb.com/retrotink.html OSSC’s: https://retrorgb.com/ossc.html GBS-C: https://retrorgb.link/mcbazelodv Morph 2K: https://retrorgb.link/morph2k Basically, you […] The post Introducing The RetroTINK 6x CE first appeared on RetroRGB .
"Buying any of our games helps support the studio": Psychonauts studio Double Fine are the latest former Xbox-owned studio to get the rights to their games back
Earlier this week, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games shared word that they now own all of the publishing rights to their games , a welcome update in light of the ongoing BDS boycott against Microsoft and Xbox . And now, another studio is joining the realm of boycott freedom, this time Psychonauts studio Double Fine, as CEO Tim Schafer has confirmed that they too now own the publishing rights to their own catalogue. Read more
Modern Warfare 4 beta's first update is live, adding a new map, mode, and toned-down footsteps
Infinity Ward has deployed the first proper update to the Modern Warfare 4 beta , addressing a chunk of the feedback from the beta's opening day, including footstep audio, weapon lethality, and map voting. Read more
GTA6 leaker Cyberleek shows off gas station rampage, refueling, promises strip club gameplay if people juice his cryptocurrency enough
Ok.
![Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'](/img/9155e5a2b0eb6c0aa77f8fb7b97f6048.avif?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net%2FSz4SXMccvrs3ehk26Yrm5-1280-80.jpg)
Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'
"Gamers will frequently point to popular games and say, 'we want more of that,' without necessarily knowing exactly what part of those games made them so good."
The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying
Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point.