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Bring on the new gen Whereas this year’sPokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu!andLet’s Go Eevee!are intended to be aneasy entry pointfor a wide audience (and something of a stopgap to satiate Switch owners), next year’s mainlinePokémongame for Nintendo Switch is being designed specifically with “longtime fans” in mind. The Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara made that remark and brought up a few other details about the untitled 2019 game in an interview withFamitsu(as translated bySiliconera)....

Investigating the Police Quest spiritual successor It’s 1987. Politicians are terrifying people with Cold War rhetoric,The Simpsonsis born onThe Tracy Ullman Show, U2 releasesThe Joshua Tree, and Bono has yet to become completely intolerable. I’m two years old, and I’m too busy irritating my parents to take notice. More cognizant folk are aware of something special brewing in the mountain town of Oakhurst, California, home of Sierra On-Line. The adventure game developer founded by Ken and Roberta Williams had already made a name for itself through the puzzle- and pun-laden science-fiction and fantasy rompsSpace QuestandKings Quest, but for its next adventure outing, the studio had something very different in mind:Police Quest....

QuakeCon attendees, rejoice: one of the swankest-lookin’ games in recent memory will be playable at the upcoming conference. Valve and Turtle Rock Studios have announced thatLeft 4 Dead, the upcoming zombie survival co-op shooter, will be playable at this year’s QuakeCon in Dallas, August 2-5. You lucky jerkfaces in attendance will also have the opportunity to ask members of the design team questions about the game, like “what’s your favorite zombie film?...

Former RIEDC director backs up criticism of government inaction The former head of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation has accused the state’s governor, Lincoln Chafee, of preventing 38 studios’ attempts to avoid bankruptcy, theBoston Globereports. Keith Stokes, the erstwhile head of the organization that approved a $75 million loan to theKingdoms of Amalurstudio, alleges in court documents that the governor actively blocked attempts to restructure the debts leading up the company’s declaration of bankruptcy in June 2012....

Leaked reports that aFinal Fantasy Tacticsremaster is in developmenthave been confirmedby Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s verified Reddit account today. Rumors have been circulating since 2021, when a leak of theGeforce Now games databasesuggested its existence. Since then, other games named on that list have been released or announced, suggesting the accuracy of it. The Reddit thread is part of revelations around the prolific leaker of information about Sega and Atlus, Midori....

Another collectathon for your remaster collection What does partying like it’s 1999 look like, anyway? It’s maybe not thefirstthing that comes to mind, but playingShadow Man— a dark action-adventure game from the PS1, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast days — is a fine choice. Courtesy of Nightdive Studios, the game isback on consoles today, following a PC remaster that first rolled ontoSteamin April 2021. Kicking off the new year,Shadow Man: Remasteredis playable for $20 onXbox One,PS4, andNintendo Switch, with the latter coming slightly later: January 17....

The definitive version ofJoe Dangeris headed to Xbox Live Arcade this coming Wednesday, December 14 for 1200 Microsoft Points. British indie studio Hello Games has included additional modes, levels, and characters in thisSpecial Edition release. Back when the original game landed on PlayStation Network, I remember being pretty bummed that so many people were going to potentially miss out on it. Now that Xbox 360 owners are getting the opportunity to partake, I hope they don’t let it go to waste....

Last Sunday onSup, Holmes?we were lucky enough to chat with Derek Yu about the origins ofSpelunky, his work on adapting the game from a free PC title to a $15 XBLA release, his work on a game for Jack Thompson, and even a little about Resident Evil 6. Those were all easy topics to broach. It was tougher to bring up the criticism thatSpelunky‘s use of a “damsel” as a form of loot/weaponry was objectifying, and therefore, misogynistic....

Updated: July 27, 2025 We looked for new codes! Sometimes, we’re all tired of seeing the classic avatars, even the bacons. Stickmen also need validation, so rile up your units and destroy noob characters. Even as the enemy charges in waves, you’ll have your powerful troops to stop them and claim ultimate victory inStickman TD. Rare units won’t fall from the sky, but they’ll be easier to obtain thanks to theStickman TDcodes....

Cody Travers: Top-tier pants-thief Benjamin Franklin (allegedly) said that only three things in life were certain: Death, Taxes andStreet Fighter VDLC. Something along those lines, anyway. Anew listingpopped up on the PlayStation Store yesterday, selling colour combinations for Season Three’s newcomers. However, the image accompanying the listing gave away some of the alternate costumes planned for Sagat and friends. We can see some new looks for Sakura, Sagat and newcomer Falke....

No Mystery Mushrooms though WhenSuper Mario Makerfor 3DS was revealed, Nintendo was quick to note that it would not contain Mystery Mushroom support. It uh…won’t have a full online level browser either. So it’ll not have two of the biggest features of the game — but if you still want it, there’s hope that amiibo figures will do something other than provide new Mystery costumes (maybe it’s just the “Giant” and “Skinny” mushrooms?...

An arm and a leg The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memorieswasn’t 2018’s best game, but it might’ve been 2018’s darkest and most impactful game. Most everyone who spent time with Swery65’s overlooked and underappreciatedThe Missingfound that it left some sort of mark on them. It tackles extremely sensitive subject matter in a frank way that’s both harrowing and sympathetic. Originally digital-only, J.J.’s story now comes with some tangible accoutrements....

Someone else can have dibs on the fish guy Housemarque may have stepped away from the arcade-shooter genre, but that spirit still lives on in other games and other studios. At the Xbox Series X gameplay event today, we got an adrenaline-pumping look atThe Ascent, an overhead co-op shooter set in an alien cyberpunk world where the big evil megacorp “that owns you and everyone” has collapsed and chaos is rising....