Blizzard Arcade Collection gets two more 1990s SNES hits, free

Two more throwbacks have joined the Blizzard Arcade Collection anthology that launched for PC and consoles back in February. They are The Lost Vikings 2, a sequel to the side-scrolling platformer included with the collection at launch, and RPM Racing, an isometric-style truck racer similar to the also-included Rock N Roll Racing. The new games […]

Studio announces new survival game, forced to deny Hideo Kojima is involved

Danish developer Blue Box Game Studios announced its PlayStation 5 exclusive, a first-person survival horror shooter named Abandoned, on Wednesday via Sony’s PlayStation Blog. Almost immediately, PlayStation fans came to a conclusion about its teaser trailer: This is secretly a Hideo Kojima game. Enough people thought that, actually, that the studio was forced to address […]

New Resident Evil Showcase event set for April 15

Capcom is planning its second Resident Evil news dump of the year, including another trailer for Resident Evil Village, the next mainline Resident Evil game. The April 15 livestream will also feature “a few other surprises” as well, according to Thursday’s teaser trailer. The April Resident Evil showcase will air at 6 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. […]

More Streets of Rage 4 is coming in 2021

The beat-’em-up action of Streets of Rage 4 will continue later this year with new downloadable content. Publisher Dotemu and developers Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games announced the Mr. X Nightmare add-on for Streets of Rage 4 on Thursday. The DLC will add three newly playable characters and a survival game mode. As seen in […]

EA gets exclusive rights to the Masters for its golf game

Following last week’s surprise news that it was reviving its simulation golf franchise, publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it is also bringing back the flashiest feather in the video game series’ cap: the Masters Tournament. The Masters and its home, Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, will be playable exclusively in EA Sports […]

Mass Effect’s Mako made me quit the game. Now I can try again

I tried to play Mass Effect when it was first released in 2007. And I almost immediately turned off my Xbox 360 as soon as I had to get into the M35 Mako — Mass Effect’s divisive, horrifying-to-control space vehicle. The memory of it, struggling to steer as I flung my vehicle off cliffs, is […]

Overwatch Archives event returns with new skins, new reward structure

Overwatch’s annual Archives event is now live, giving players a chance to revisit the game’s co-op missions and earn brand-new skins. Archives also introduces a new reward structure for Overwatch that does away with the previous win-nine-games-to-get-new-skins rules, which is good news for players who want to tackle the game’s more challenging PvE missions. First, […]

Call of Duty: Warzone’s Verdansk now has a new kind of zombie

Call of Duty: Warzone’s zombies are getting a little tougher to kill. In Warzone’s latest update, the undead have moved to Verdansk’s TV Station and some of them have adapted to be more resistant to bullets. According to Warzone’s latest in-universe intelligence briefing, a new strain of undead enemy has arrived on Verdansk. These new […]

Hitman 3’s first mission is free to try this week

You can now drop into Agent 47’s World of Assassination for free. Developer IO Interactive released a new version of Hitman 3 called the Free Starter Pack, which lets players check out the game’s first level, Dubai, for free. The mission will only be included in the pack from March 30 to April 5. The […]