Anyone who has opened a pack of trading cards will know the thrill and excitement that goes along with it. Now imagine every character you've pulled is a middle-aged man from your town. If you're sat there thinking 'that sounds odd, why would I want that,' you clearly haven't heard of the card game which is currently taking a community in Japan by storm.Kawara, a town in the Fukuoka Prefecture,...

The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has apparently unbalanced the humors of the world's youths, whose ecstatic outbursts at screenings are showering audiences with popcorn and cries of "chicken jockey!" At least two incidents have even ended with police intervention.A chicken jockey is a baby zombie riding a chicken, a rare occurrence in Minecraft. Thanks to TikTok and whatever it is that compels humans to engage in weird...

Until the other day, what I knew about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was that: It's a French RPG with some Persona-inspired flairIt's got turn-based combat with real-time mechanicsIt's coming out in April Based on the screenshots of forlorn young adults, I also expected a melodramatic story about a quest to save the world, but I realized recently that I'd never actually read the game's premise.It's more bonkers than I expected....

You wouldn't know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute little corgi driving a mech, but it got its start in a different genre altogether. The game about building houses for a bunch of adorable forest animals was originally a hardcore survival game.I met with Steven Jian, CEO of Uncommon Games, at GDC in March because I was curious how the...

The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple pattern: Netflix releases a videogame adaptation, and the people who watch it want an excuse to linger in that world, causing related game sales to spike shortly afterwards.We saw it when Henry Cavill's Geralt performance drove a 554% increase in people tossing coins to their Witchers. It drove increases in...

The first "proper update" for everyone's favorite drug-dealing simulator Schedule I is now available in a Steam beta branch, where it will stay for a day or two for testing before it goes into full release.The update comes as Schedule I faces potential trouble from Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA, which has launched an investigation into possible copyright infringement. No action beyond the investigation has been taken on...

I'm the sort of PC enthusiast that likes my hardware understated. I'm not immune to a bit of RGB lighting, you understand, but I tend to shy away from ultra-flashy builds out of sheer British reservedness. This golden G.Skill DDR5-8000 RAM kit, however, is making me reconsider my timid ways—and it's as fast as a very fast thing, too.The G.Skill DDR5-8000 Trident Z5 Royal Neo kit, to give it it's...

Deadline reports that Michael Sarnoski, currently finishing up post-production on A24 studio's Death of Robin Hood, will write and direct the film adaptation of Kojima Productions' Death Stranding.Sarnoski is best-known for the breakout hit Pig, starring Nicolas Cage, after which he directed a spinoff to A Quiet Place called A Quiet Place: Day One. He's the director of the upcoming Death of Robin Hood, starring Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer,...

Intuitive isn't the word I'd use to describe Schedule 1, in large part thanks to its odd controls and menus. The management clipboard is by far the most egregious tool at your disposal, though it's also one of the most important, so you really do need to get to grips with it.After fiddling about with all the different options and hiring various employees, I've figured out everything you can do...

So you've defeated high rank Zoh Shia in Monster Hunter Wilds, but now you can't seem to get it to spawn again, and you'll need to hunt it multiple times in order to craft its weapon and gear. You can always use the SOS Flare System to find a hunt, but the problem is that they often fill up so quickly that it's first-come, first-served.If you've just started checking out...