Author: Karen M. Menke
Formula Legends is an off-brand arcade racer with a Formula One theme, developed by the same team that brought us Paw Patrol Grand Prix and Gigantosaurus: Dino Kart. Indeed, it’s true that the majority of 3DClouds’ production seems to be racing games for a very young audience. For those of you who aren’t eating spaghetti with your hands anymore, Formula Legends may seem like an easy game to pass on paper. However, Formula Legends may end up being a dark horse in the race if you enjoy the lengthy and illustrious history of Formula 1 racing as well as video…
I was captivated by the job system, the enduring cast of people, and a plot that provided few simple solutions when I played it for the first time on the original PlayStation in the 1990s. 2025 has long been set up for an upgraded version of this RPG classic that is worthy of the original, thanks to the PSP re-release of The War of the Lions, which had more material but significant performance concerns, and mobile versions that only had touch controllers. Did The Ivalice Chronicles by Square Enix meet expectations? It certainly did, with a few exceptions. Even though…
How do you follow up with a character-driven roguelite like Hades that is almost unmatched in its field? Knowing where to grow larger without being overly bloated is essential. Knowing where to tighten screws without removing too much texture is important. In addition to identifying areas where it makes sense to experiment and remix, you must understand the fundamental, sacrosanct components that made it unique. All of these things are somehow accomplished in Hades 2, with the attention to detail and flourish that have come to define Supergiant Games. Not a single note is out of place. Hades 2 begins…
I had pondered whether I would have any less excitement from this brutal survival horror-parkour when I embarked on my fourth adventure of jumping across roofs while chopping zombies in two via the Dying Light series. Even if the fundamentals haven’t changed much since 2022’s Dying Light 2: Stay Human, I’m pleasantly happy to report that it’s still a ton of fun after more than 40 hours of tucking and rolling. The fact that you play as a human with monster DNA pumped into you, allowing you to tear people’s heads off with your bare hands, ups the ante a…
Hockey may not have the same fan following as baseball, football, or soccer, but its ardent supporters believe that it is a very unique sport. It’s the feel of your skate moving smoothly across the ice, the weight of the puck against your stick, and the chilly arena air. To their credit, EA Vancouver’s devs appear to understand all of that, which has helped them produce a fun NHL simulation with a devoted following. However, given the series hasn’t really advanced in any significant way in recent years, that commitment has been put to the test more and more. This…
Let me introduce you to Drag x Drive, a wheelchair basketball-themed sports game that is mostly controlled by the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode, if you’re among the Nintendo enthusiasts who are concerned that the firm lost its creative spark after playing it safe with the Switch 2. Even after 20 years of playing every weird motion-controlled game from the Wii onward, I can honestly say that this is something I’ve never seen before, even though it has a surprisingly flat personality given that it comes from the company that has given us some of the most recognizable characters and gaming…
As you level up your battle pass in the most recent season of Fortnite, you and your team must defend yourselves against insectoid alien adversaries known as Bugs. If that sounds familiar, you’re not the only one. The creator of Helldivers 2, another shooter in which you team up against insectoid alien adversaries known as Bugs, Arrowhead Game Studios, has now addressed the similarities and implied that copying is flattering. On the game’s Discord (thanks, Videogamer), community manager Katherine Baskin said, “Hmmm… it’s giving ‘we have Helldivers at home,'” before saying, “I’m not worried.” “Fortnite is Fortnite, Helldivers is Helldivers,”…
We’re finally getting our first first-person Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, and the first one in virtual reality, as we exclusively revealed earlier this year. TMNT: Empire City is a co-op action-adventure game that stars your favorite heroes in a half-shell. In the latest developer diary video above, you can see some first-person parkour/traversal gameplay. Ace St. Germain, the creative director, provides some details about Empire City’s first-person VR parkour mechanics: While above-ground mobility stresses parkour, enabling quick and vertical exploration, movement in sewers is slower and more covert. We’re concentrating on important areas rather than re-creating the entire city…
After a new trailer hinted at the appearance of the ODST, Helldivers 2 appears to be headed for an unusual Halo crossover. For August 26, Arrowhead’s wildly popular third-person shooter for PC and PlayStation 5 will be released for Xbox Series X and S, becoming the first game published by Sony on Microsoft’s platform. The game’s famous soundtrack plays as the clip, which can be seen below, closes with what appears to be the entrance of an ODST on a battlefield soaked in rain. Everything is so ODST! In 2009, Halo 3: ODST, developed by Bungie, was released exclusively on…
Four years after its first E3 announcement, a Bloomberg story claims that Xbox has canceled the game’s production in order to “evaluate the project’s future.” According to insiders, “Xbox is canceling Contraband, announced in 2021 from Avalanche Studios (Just Cause), after four years of radio silence,” Jason Schreier, a journalist for Bloomberg, was the first to report the news on Bluesky today. Avalanche then posted an official confirmation on its website, which says the following: Xbox Game Studios Publishing and Avalanche Studios Group have worked together on Contraband for a number of years. As we assess the project’s future, active…