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On October 18, 1985, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America with a modest lineup that included Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Within a few short years, its catalog had swelled to hundreds of titles. That growth showed how premature the early-’80s obituaries for the video game industry had been. Many of those...

When you buy downloadable content, you usually expect more of the same: a few extra hours, some new gear, maybe a boss the main game had no room for. But what if the DLC crowned you the new god of madness instead of handing you a few new outfits and some fetch quests? What if...

The PlayStation 4 debuted in North America on November 15, 2013, and reached Japan and the rest of the world a few months later. In the years since, it has enjoyed an unbroken run of releases across nearly every genre, and a few more titles are still on the way, even six years after the...

Zach Cregger, the director of Weapons, took an unusual route with his new adaptation of Resident Evil. He didn’t adapt the characters and story of Capcom’s survival-horror games. He tried to capture what it feels like to live through one of the Resident Evil series’ worst-case scenarios. The film follows a hapless medical courier, played...

Toxic Crusaders has a new gameplay trailer that shows four-player co-op, flashy brawling, and a boss fight. The game still has no release date. The developers at Retrowave originally planned to launch Toxic Crusaders on December 4, 2025. They later delayed it by almost 11 months without announcing a new date. The team says it...

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has launched on PC with technical problems, and Steam players rate it “Mostly Positive.” The game marks the series’ return after almost 20 years. Konami and Evil Empire, the studio known for Dead Cells, set out to continue the Castlevania series. The console version turned out fairly well and lets players return...

The new 90-second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer has sparked debate among viewers, some of whom say the graphics look worse than before. The first reactions focused on the views of Leonida and the story of Jason and Lucia. After that, some viewers said the graphics had taken a step back from the earlier trailers....

The developers of Persona 3, 4 and 5 spoke at a festival about what defines the identity of the series. During a panel on September 22 at The Tenth Mosaic festival, Katsura Hashino, character designer Shigenori Soejima and composer Shoji Meguro discussed what makes the series distinctive. Hashino explained that Persona reflects adolescence, with all...

You know it’s been a good year for horror when a genuine hit still slips through the cracks. Summer brought endless discussion of Obsession, The Backrooms, Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and The End of Oak Street. All four pulled in nine-digit box office totals. Earlier in the year, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was...

A demo of the mystery detective game Quiet Express: Cabin 909 is now available on Steam. Players must find a nonexistent cabin and prevent a train disaster. Quiet Express: Cabin 909 is a mystery game with time loops. The train is doomed to crash in seven days, and the player has to stop it. The...

The Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes are now available on Nintendo Switch 2 as digital releases. Owners of the handheld console can replay these landmark entries in the franchise. The release lets players return to Raccoon City and relive key events from the series on a portable system. In Resident Evil 2 and...

The internet has made it much easier to find obscure comics from around the world. Examples include bandes dessinées, science-fiction serials and stories buried in old magazine anthologies. For every comic translated for release outside its home country, such as Valerian or Yoko Tsuno, dozens more never are. Many are long out of print and...

Publisher CygamesEdge has released a demo of Where the Seeds Fall on Steam and shown a cinematic trailer. The full game launches on November 5 on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. The game follows a soldier who tries to escape the World Tree together with the Fallen Child, a creature that foretells doom...

Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have shown the first act of Stranger Than Heaven, which begins in 1915. Protagonist Makoto Daito flees the US for Japan to escape racism and hostility, and Snoop Dogg plays the ship’s captain. After arriving in Kokura-era Japan, Daito faces rejection even from his own compatriots. The story will...

Doug Cockle, who voices Geralt in The Witcher games, has shared a funny story from the run-up to the premiere of Netflix’s The Witcher season 1. Cockle recalled how Henry Cavill invited him to the London premiere of the Netflix series. In an interview with Ginx TV, the actor admitted that he didn’t believe the...

Saber Interactive’s boldness with Hellraiser: Revival has impressed the creator of the franchise. Hellraiser creator Clive Barker told Dread Central that he is “damn proud” of the game. He had feared the developers would have to make serious concessions to censorship, but he was pleasantly surprised by how far they managed to go. In Barker’s...