Last year, EA released Rocket Arena, an online multiplayer competitive shooter from developer Final Strike Games. If you don’t remember it, I don't blame you. It dropped off the gaming radar faster than its price dropped in stores. Wh...

Cblogs of 5/22 to 5/28/2021 -Gamingnerd writes an excellent retrospective on the Dragon Quest series on its 35th anniversary. -Nior discusses the gaming industry in Brazil by sharing the story about the failings of the world's first digita...

It's all right there in the headline — if you haven't gotten Among Us yet and you'd like to, you can play it for free. The Epic Games Store is giving away the mega-popular social game until June 3, 2021. I probably don't need to expla...

You might remember, back in the fall of 2020, we sent word of a sexy-looking street scrapper, Mayhem Brawler, in the works at indie outfit Hero Concept. Well, the comic-book style brawler has a release date, and will bring its titular mayhe...

Dead by Daylight revealed the Resident Evil chapter it teased a little while ago, and it's going back to the classics. Both Leon S. Kennedy and Jill Valentine, as well as Nemesis (or The Tyrant) and the Racoon City Police Station are coming...

Velan Studios' and EA's multiplayer dodgeball arena game Knockout City has been having a free trial period in celebration of its launch, and it looks like a lot of people are giving it a shot. The team announced that two million players hav...

Cblogs of 5/15 to 5/21/2021 -Eggs&Brewsterjr discusses eight Game Boy games they know they would love to play. -GamingDino highlights another gaming dinosaur in ARK. -D-Volt writes about how the Sonic franchise may be limited by their ...

For those of you eager to start mashing monsters in that unmistakable Left 4 Dead-style once again, the Turtle Rock Studios incoming Back 4 Blood will definitely scratch that gross, oozing itch. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has releas...

I don't necessarily like to boil games down to just their inspirations, but in the case of Phantom Abyss, I feel like I have to point out the prevailing notion: this seems like a wild adventure-platformer brew seasoned with elements of Indi...

Great news for fans of SNK's great 2019 fighter Samurai Shodown. The one-year exclusivity deal with Epic Games Store is coming to an end, which means that the tense fighting title will finally launch on the Steam platform June 19. In additi...

[Update: Huntdown is now live on Steam, early purchases will bag a 20% price discount.] There's no denying 2020 was an explosive year for video games. But among the mega-bucks, mega-marketed, mega-sellers of the industry, smaller titles wer...

Cblogs of 5/8 to 5/14/2021 -Gamingnerd wonders if single-player games are simply a multiplayer game against the game's AI. -Febochulus reviews indie game, Hylics. -Lord Spencer reviews Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix as part of his PS1 REVIEWS ...

In this 3 Minute Review, The Escapist's KC Nwosu covers Hood: Outlaws & Legends, a stealthy castle-robbing PvPvE team action game from Focus Home Interactive and Sumo Digital inspired by myth. There's only so much time each week to che...

The Season 4.5 update is coming to Fall Guys on May 13 with a pair of new levels, revamps of existing stages, and some pleasant surprises like the ability for PS4 and PC players to "matchmake together in all game modes." The best bit, by fa...

The Last Blade 2's Hibiki Takane has always been an emotional sort. It's totally understandable, given the young swordswoman's exceptionally tough and violent childhood. In her short video game career, Hibiki has been both a delicate flower...

Two of SNK's weapon-heavy fighters are getting set to lock horns next week, as Hibiki Takane prepares to cut a swathe of destruction through the roster of Samurai Shodown. The Last Blade's junior samurai will join the SamSho roster as a pai...

Somehow, Season 4 of Fall Guys has already been out for a month. That whole time, I've been meaning to check in — the futuristic low-gravity levels looked fun — but I kept pushing it off. After adoring Season 1, bouncing off of ...

The long-time-coming Samurai Gunn 2 resurfaced today with a blistering new trailer and a revised summer release window for Steam Early Access. What about Nintendo Switch? It's still happening — but that version won't come out until t...

As part of yesterday's Nintendo Indie World live stream, publisher Dotemu confirmed that it would be bringing its cool-looking brawler Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge to the Switch platform. The announcement was accompanied...

Recently I've been lamenting that Rainbow Six: Siege was a turning point in the way it presents itself. Gone are the days of being married to the stuffy spec-ops tactical gruffness aesthetic, and here to stay was a new age of goofy costume...

Raven Software is getting set to hit the big red button on its multiplayer shooter Call of Duty: Warzone. After weeks - months even - of speculation, the developer is now teasing a cataclysmic event that is about to befall the explosive loc...

Are you digging WW2 monster-masher Zombie Army 4: Dead War, but just feel like the blood and viscera flying through the air is missing that certain je ne sais quoi? Well, worry no more, as developer Rebellion has announced a free next-gen u...

2020 was a kick-ass year for video games, I'm sure y'all would agree. But when it comes to the crunch, I don't there's any new release I played more than Easy Trigger Games' anarchic, explosive, kick-you-in-the-crotch-fantastic platform sho...

Pac-Man 99 is the next last-player-standing game for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers following Tetris 99 and Super Mario Bros. 35 (RIP), and you know what? Sure. I'm down. There's going to be a point of diminishing returns for these nos...

The fight goes on in Activision's tribizillion-dollar shooter franchise Call of Duty. Tomorrow will see the launch of "Reloaded", a mid-season update for both Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and its sister battle royale title Call of Duty:...