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10 NES Games That Are Still Worth Playing From Start to Finish
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...
9 DLCs That Outshined the Base Game
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...
10 Nearly Flawless PS4 Games That Nobody Played
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...
Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger Is Already Considering Sequels
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 Gameplay Shown, Featuring Retro-Style Brawling
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 Launches on PC With Technical Issues
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...
GTA VI Suspected of Graphics Downgrade, Fans Offer Explanation
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....
Persona Creator Sums Up the Series in One Word and Explains What an Ideal RPG Should Be
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...
Adam Scott Thriller Hokum Now Streaming on Hulu
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...
Enthusiast Reports 40% Performance Boost in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Using AI
A modder who goes by LTSharpe26 has released a free performance fix for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. No official patch has appeared yet, but PC players now have an alternative. Bethesda Game Studios and Virtuos haven’t released patches for last year’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered in a long time, so various...
Outlast Testers Reportedly Ran Out of the Office to Cry and Refused to Return
Red Barrels’ horror game Outlast hit some people hard enough that they quit or left the studio in tears. Phillipe Morin recently talked to GamesSpot about the development of the 2013 game. Outlast became a big hit. It was the debut project of Red Barrels, whose team then consisted of just 10 people. The developers...
Peanuts Great Pumpkin Comic Strip Predated Famous TV Special by Two Years
In 1966, CBS debuted the now-classic television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The kids in the Peanuts gang take part in typical Halloween activities, including trick-or-treating and pumpkin-carving. Linus is the exception. He is busy preparing for the arrival of a mythical being known as the “Great Pumpkin.” Linus explains the legend this...
Modder Turns Diablo Into a 3D Shooter With Multiplayer and Scalable Interface
Players will be able to turn on an authentic-looking sky. A modder who goes by Drelvak has published a new video diary about developing a large-scale mod for the original Diablo. The mod turns Blizzard Entertainment’s classic ARPG into a first-person 3D shooter and offers a different perspective on the game. Controls use WASD and...
Calvin and Hobbes Halloween Strip Remains Controversial 31 Years After Publication
Daily newspaper comics tend to follow the calendar. A gag-a-day strip that skips Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas is rare. When a cartoonist has to produce a joke every day, holidays are an easy source of material. A Halloween reread of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes shows how little it bothers with that habit....
Pokémon Returns to Galar in 2027 With New Animated Series on Disney+
Disney and The Pokémon Company are teaming up on a new streaming series. They announced Friday that the stop-motion animated adventure series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively on Disney Plus in 2027. The announcement is part of a wider push to bring Pokémon to...
Rockstar Co-Founder Says Bully and Red Dead Redemption Nearly Got Canceled During Difficult Development
There were many moments when the projects could have been shut down. Many players love Bully, sometimes called the “school GTA,” and Red Dead Redemption. According to Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, both games faced difficulties during development and were at risk of cancellation. He shared his recollections in a recent interview with IGN. Houser...
10 NES Games That Are Still Worth Playing From Start to Finish
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...
9 DLCs That Outshined the Base Game
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...
10 Nearly Flawless PS4 Games That Nobody Played
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...
Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger Is Already Considering Sequels
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 Gameplay Shown, Featuring Retro-Style Brawling
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 Launches on PC With Technical Issues
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...
GTA VI Suspected of Graphics Downgrade, Fans Offer Explanation
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....
Persona Creator Sums Up the Series in One Word and Explains What an Ideal RPG Should Be
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...
Adam Scott Thriller Hokum Now Streaming on Hulu
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...