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Microsoft will showcase its slate of upcoming games in the Xbox Games Showcase 2025, scheduled for June 8, the company announced Tuesday. The digital-only broadcast is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET on June 8, and will be followed by a whole showcase specifically about The Outer Worlds 2. “It all begins with our annual Xbox Games Showcase, bringing you a look at upcoming titles from across our first-party...
I’m a huge enthusiast when it comes to independent animation. Whether it’s stop-motion animation like Takahide Hori’s Junk Head or one-man masterpieces like Shingo Tamagawa’s Puparia and Kenji Iwaisawa’s On-Gaku: Our Sound, I’m an ardent believer in both seeking out and championing passion projects that exist both within and outside of the mainstream animation industry. Michinoku-toge is one such project. Set in an alternate version of feudal Japan, the series...
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Astro Bot won five awards, including Best Game, at Tuesday’s BAFTA Games Awards, wrapping up a triumphant awards season for Sony’s PlayStation 5 platformer. Dominating the night, Team Asobi’s game also took home awards for Game Design, Animation, Audio, and Family. The Chinese Room’s oil-rig thriller Still Wakes the Deep won three awards, for New Intellectual Property and in both leading and supporting performer categories. Helldivers 2 won for Multiplayer...
Tax season is upon us. Individual income tax returns are due April 15 in the United States. If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, why not procrastinate a little bit longer and play some games instead? Here are five games about taxes to play to procrastinate filing your taxes. Some involve filing virtual taxes, some involve avoiding them, and one actually helped people prep their real taxes in 2022. But...
Season 2, the second major content update for Marvel Rivals, is based on the Hellfire Gala, a red carpet event from the X-Men series. Season 2 will add two new characters to the game: Emma Frost, a vanguard, and Ultron, whose class type hasn’t been revealed yet. There’s also the new Krakoa map. As with season 1, season 2 will be split into two halves. Emma Frost and the Krakoa...
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was misnamed. It should have been called Big Rigs: Through the Road Racing, or possibly Through the Nearby Buildings and Also Bridges. The 2003 truck racing game infamously lacked collision, meaning you could drive through anything, including your competitor.I say competitor, but in the launch version of the game your rival wouldn't actually move, remaining stationary while you complete the race, at which point...
Wordle left you feeling lost in a haze of letters? We can help sort it all out. Spend a little while with our April 9 (1390) hint if you'd like a pointer towards the winning word, or skip straight to the part where you win in a single click. The answer to Wednesday's Wordle is here if you're stuck.I only managed to solve this one thanks to sheer determination. I...
In a game as janky as drug-dealer sim Schedule 1, you just know some players will find a way to explore beyond the limits of what should be possible. Take this footage posted by @imrags for instance, which shows that the memelord Breaking Bad 'em up can become a kind of Keystone Cops Doom Eternal where you platform onto rooftops to get away from the fuzz.That jump-boost works by spamming...
It happened as it always does: A new Monster Hunter released, veteran hunters complained it was too easy, and those of us who've watched this cycle repeat for the last 14 years settled in to wait for Capcom to inevitably send along a fresh parade of powerhouse monsters to balance the scales.Now that Title Update 1 is here, I'm pleased to report that it only took Wilds a month to...
As the negative Steam reviews continue to pile up, Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA has addressed the controversy surrounding its investigation into the indie hit Schedule I with a simple, straightforward message on the DDS 2 Steam page: "There is no lawsuit."It's been a rough couple days for Movie Games SA: The company confirmed yesterday that it is conducting an investigation of Schedule I over "potential infringement" of...