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Castlehold, the competitive strategy game from Scribblenauts developer 5TH Cell, is now available on PC through Steam Early Access. In the free-to-play Catslehold, you will travel to a world formed by a tear in space and time. Here you will recruit Vikings, cowboys, cyber soldiers, ninjas, and more to battle. You will capture villages to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you were playing games 20 years ago, you probably spent at least a little time with Diablo II. This game was so popular that some people are still playing it, but an upgrade is on the way. Blizzard is

Bloomberg published a story earlier this week about Nintendo’s plans to release a new Switch model that would come equipped with a Samsung OLED display which will consume less battery, and offer higher contrast and possibly even a faster response time. It’s reportedly a 7-inch, 720p-resolution panel and will be able to support “4K ultra-high

Kit and Krysta, the duo behind the weekly Nintendo Minute video series, are back to provide fans with another episode. Once again, they’re being joined by a special guest, but this time, it isn’t to play a game. It’s to offer some helpful advice to those that are just beginning to play the game. The

Is there a more generic title than Warrior Boy? Perhaps ‘Game of War’ takes that particular biscuit (thanks, mobile F2P). Still, we’re noting it down for a ‘worst titles of 2021’ article at the end of the year.  We really, really want to be proved wrong about Warrior Boy, but the trailer and screenshots look

Summary Get Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 now! Explore the Monster Jam universe with an all-new expansion. Go head-to-head, or try your hand at Freestyle Mode. Just drive your way! Monster Jam has captured the imaginations of legions of fans for nearly 30 years, with a massive roster of truck designs, each more spectacular than

Monster trucks are the automotive embodiment of a slightly tipsy dad coming home after a wedding: spirits high but knocking over all the garden gnomes. They’re big, loud, and a little destructive – but lovable oafs, nonetheless. It’s hard to hate a giant, five-ton truck wearing a novelty hat. Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 quaintly

The delayed Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 has received a new release date. During a gameplay premiere, CI Games revealed the game will now be released at the start of June. Not only that, the title will also be coming to the latest generation of consoles, including PS5. The title was originally revealed back in

February has come to a close, which means it’s time to open up the Players’ Choice polls and vote for your favorite new release of the past month! From the stylish heroes of Persona 5 Strikers and Ys IX: Monstrum Nox to the tricks and puzzles of Little Nightmares II and the We Were Here

Puzzle-y adventure platformer Minute Of Islands has a lovely look to it, but we’ll be waiting a bit longer than planned to play it. Studio Fizbin have announced that they won’t be launching this month due to some last minute bugs found during testing. Unfortunately they also aren’t sure what the new date will be,

Mortal Shell served as a solid offering to Souls fans when it launched in August 2020. The game bleeds Dark Souls through and through, but features a unique twist by allowing players to take control of various bodies to use in combat. In a similar manner, the game has found new platforms to inhabit: the PlayStation 5 and

Sounds bananas to us. Sony has devised some cool new tech that could turn anything into a PlayStation controller. That’s going by an application with US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – as spotted by GamesIndustry.biz – which outlines how PlayStation reckons it could turn a regular non-electronic object into a game controller. In the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question that’s come up from time to time in gaming is whether older GPUs get slower over time. ExtremeTech has examined this question before with respect to software updates, meaning we checked whether older GPUs lost performance as a

Could anyone have predicted that Epic Games – developer of Fortnite and Gears of War, creator of the Unreal Engine, and powerhouse behind the Epic Games Store, Steam’s biggest rival – would buy up Mediatonic, the studio behind hit pandemic game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout? Not us, that’s for sure. HUGE NEWS!@Mediatonic are pleased to

Take on a colossal Tetrimino challenge with Mario in Tetris® 99 with a special Super Mario™ 3D World + Bowser’s Fury themed MAXIMUS CUP! This coming weekend’s Tetris 99 20th MAXIMUS CUP event allows you to earn an in-game theme based on the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury game. Demonstrate your fur-midable puzzle

I think the best word to describe Horned Knight is ‘typical’. This is the same retro-style 2D action platformer you’ve seen countless times on the Xbox Store. There is nothing here that you won’t have seen before. There’s even the pixel art that seems to come as standard with pretty much any small indie game

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! Here we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released ID@Xbox titles! Get more details on the games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates

Since seeing our first hands-on preview of Outriders last summer, I’ve been cautiously optimistic about People Can Fly’s new co-op shooter/RPG. I was disappointed by the latest delay, but as a consolation prize, Square Enix has released the first act on schedule as a demo for us to start forming impressions off of. After spending

While we all patiently await news about Dino Crisis, here’s another dinosaur game that you can enjoy in the meantime: open-world survival adventure Dinos Reborn. In development at indie studio HardCodeWay, Dinos Reborn transports players to a pre-historic sci-fi world where they have to “navigate between being predator and prey.” In a press release, the developer

Last week, we asked you to enter the world of Control: Ultimate Edition and share reality-bending peeks at the weirdest office ever, The Oldest House. From twisting walls to unusual decorations, you shared your weirdest environments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  Jesse floats through a hallway that takes quite a turn in

The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for patting your rice cooker on the lid and thanking it for its many years of service. While our rice warms, let’s read this week’s best writing about video games. For GAMINGbible, Dean Abdou addressed the

Hu Tao is the spooky 77th director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, presiding over all manner of funeral services in Liyue, and she’s coming to Genshin Impact soon. Hu Tao is a polearm wielder and pyro element, so she’ll likely take over a spot in your crew that’s currently being filled by Diluc or Xiangling. Of

After a bit of an issue, Re-Logic’s Terraria is back in development for Google Stadia. Earlier this month it was revealed that Terraria for Stadia has been canceled due to Google having disabled the studio head’s Google account without warning, and being unable to address the problem. Basically what happened was that for some reason,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service in late 2019, but already the bloom is off the rose. A series of increasingly concerning tales from Google’s game division has come to light in the weeks since Google killed its internal

It’s official, The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are arriving this year. The PR describes how the Nintendo DS originals have been faithfully reproduced. There are also a number of updates, including easy-to-understand and player-friendly conveniences. All of this has got fans wondering if the content from the third version,

The latest Pokémon Presents video presentation has been and gone – check out all the announcements here – with an exciting new trailer for New Pokémon Snap for Nintendo Switch being aired early in the 20 minute showcase. The new trailer from Bandai Namco and The Pokémon Company shows a ton of new footage that

Video games have been around since the 1970s. One would think that now, in 2021, we would have seen a great number of incredibly original ideas. One would be correct, but one would also be disappointed to see games like Dungeons & Bombs. This unoriginal puzzler is fifty levels of frustration and tedium that will

Bringing Zeta Halo to life As is customary for these blogs, let’s get started with a quick round of introductions – who are you, what does your job entail, and what’s your history with Halo?   Justin Dinges – Hello, my name is Justin Dinges and I am the Campaign Art Lead on Halo Infinite. I’ve

I will admit that when I initially saw a top-down action roguelite called Curse of the Dead Gods, complete with swords, bows, environmental hazards, and semi-random rewards based on what room you choose to enter next, my first thought was “Hey, this seems a bit like a Hades knockoff.” It turns out, I was completely

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan was busy recently with a boatload of new PlayStation announcements from an interview with GQ, and in it he tossed a bit of shade at CD Projekt RED and the messy Cyberpunk 2077 launch. When talking about launch dates for PS5 games and how the Covid pandemic has created a lot