Author: Karen M. Menke

Developer Netmarble has revealed that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a narrative-driven action-adventure role-playing game, will launch on mobile devices in 2025. Last night, during The Game Awards 2024 event, a trailer for the game—previously known only as Game of Thrones MMORPG—was unveiled. It depicts the player character encountering notable figures from the HBO series, including Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister. Dropping the previous MMO (massively multiplayer online) messaging, Netmarble stated, “Faithfully crafted under official license from HBO and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is a blockbuster story-driven action-adventure RPG that invites players to step into the immersive…

Developer Netmarble has revealed that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a narrative-driven action-adventure role-playing game, will launch on mobile devices in 2025. During The Game Awards 2024 event last night, a trailer for the game—previously known only as Game of Thrones MMORPG—was unveiled. It depicts the player character encountering notable figures from the HBO series, including Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister. Dropping the previous MMO (massively multiplayer online) messaging, Netmarble stated, “Faithfully crafted under official license from HBO and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is a blockbuster story-driven action-adventure RPG that invites players to step into the immersive…

The term “first-person shooter” is ambiguous. It can refer to anything from a sci-fi adventure like Metroid Prime to an action-horror game like F.E.A.R. to a demon-eviscerating frolic like Doom. Even reducing it to a subcategory like “military FPS” lumps in the white-knuckle extractions of Escape from Tarkov, the massive PvP battles of Battlefield, and the linear narrative of Call of Duty, among other games. With a separate extraction shooter mode and a dedicated large-scale PvP mode, Delta Force, the most recent resuscitation of a now 26-year-old shooter series last seen in 2009, may best described as a combination of…

Certain things are meant to be. Chocolate and peanut butter. Popcorn and movie theaters. Failure and the Cleveland Browns. Power Rangers and a beat-’em-up from the mid-1990s should, by all rights, be included on that list as well. It just appears to be something that a higher power willed into being, written in the book that dictates cosmic history. However, it never took place. Indeed, there were a few mediocre SNES/Genesis sidescrollers, but they were constrained by their home hardware, just like most console beat ’em-ups at the time. We never had a real, magnificent arcade cabinet that could accommodate…

The free-to-play strategy role-playing game Girls Frontline 2: Exilium, which was just released for PC and mobile devices, marks the return of the Girls Frontline franchise. Building on the foundation created by its predecessor, it adds a fresh cast of characters and completely 3D maps. This is a follow-up to the 2018 free-to-play mobile game Girls Frontline, in case you are unfamiliar with the franchise. It presented a future planet ravaged by conflict, where a large portion of humanity has perished and they now depend on androids known as Tactical Dolls, sometimes referred to as T-Dolls or Dolls, to fight…

I knew I would soon be opening an Excel spreadsheet and bidding farewell to all of my loved ones for the foreseeable future after just one hour of playing the early access edition of Path of Exile 2. With a sequel to one of my all-time favorite action role-playing games, which has already taken up a significant portion of my life since its release ten years ago, the callous madmen at Grinding Gears Games have dragged me back in just when I thought I was done. Even though it has many of the typical “early access jank” restrictions and has…

I have had my VHS copy of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade worn out for more than 30 years. The movie franchise has been in a state of escalation ever since. After discovering the actual Holy Grail, where do you go? Time machines, then aliens, presumably. The ideal remedy for all of this is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which transports us back to Indy’s heyday through its own symbolic Dial of Destiny. With meticulously detailed environments, incredibly atmospheric tomb raiding and puzzle solving, a flawless soundtrack, and perhaps the best punch sound effect in the industry, the…

I am not sure I even believe what Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is, so I don’t know how to begin this review. It was practically unplayable for the first 24 hours following a completely disastrous launch, and throughout the following few days, issues and glitches appeared due to an unforeseen high server load… Despite everything, after spending 58 hours traveling the world, working on my business, shooting pictures of well-known sites, and playing around in free flight, I sat back in my chair this week and said, “I can not believe it… they did it again.” Even though no one…

Microsoft has revealed which games, including Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, will be available on Xbox Game Pass in December 2024, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle as the main attraction. MachineGames’ eagerly awaited release, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, marks Indy’s first official entry into the video game industry. Arriving as a day one release on December 9, the first-person single-player adventure challenges players to solve one of the biggest mysteries in history. Gamexta stated in our preview that “gamers of all ages should be interested in this game.” “Because The Great Circle might be even better than…

Tencent has revealed intentions to offer Light of Motiram, its contentious open-world survival crafting game, on the PS5, mobile devices, and PC. Tencent revealed the PS5 version on PlayStation’s Chinese social media profiles on Weibo and Bilibili, according to Gematsu. The free-to-play survival game Light of Motiram, developed by Shanghai-based Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, is “where nature meets machine.” According to screenshots and gameplay videos, the visual aesthetic is strikingly similar to Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West with its post-apocalyptic environment and mechanical creatures. Gamexta has contacted Sony and Tencent for comment. Tencent released a seven-minute video…