Excellent New Detective Game Has You Snoop Around The ’90s Internet

It was right about when I scrolled past the virus festeringchunk2 (1) in my Download Manager and again heard the desktop assistant Professor Helper’s appeal to guide me to a free cruise and credit report site that I realized my computer was trashed and the game Hypnospace Outlaw is a work of genius. Hypnospace Outlaw,…

A Game About Bizarre, Randomly Generated Lives

Yesterday, in BitLife, I was playing as Basil Andre, a french businessman, when disaster struck. I had been slowly climbing the corporate ladder, amassing a family, when suddenly, I got diagnosed with penis cancer. BitLife is a mobile game that bears a lot of similarity to RealLives, a free educational game that was intended to…

Destiny 2‘s Branching Narrative Is Basic But Has A Lot Of Potential

Back in 2014, when playing Destiny meant listening to a bored Peter Dinklage rattle off incoherent dialogue and meaningless proper nouns, it was hard to imagine that this game might one day do interesting things with narrative. Four and a half years later, here we are. The new Allegiance quest line, which was added to Destiny…

A Puzzle Game Where You Rewrite The Rules Of Each Level

Baba Is You is a puzzle game for Switch and PC, out today. You start by playing as Baba, a rabbit-like creature who can push blocks of words around to change a level’s rules. Soon, though, you’ll be playing as keys, rocks, flags, lava, or any other object you can become or manipulate by rearranging…

Damn, Yoshi’s Crafted World Looks Gorgeous

I’ve been playing Yoshi’s Crafted World for Switch in advance of its March 29 release, and the thing that’s sticking with me the most is how just plain beautiful it looks. I know we all enjoy playing our Switches in handheld mode, but you should consider docking that sucker for the duration of your Crafted…

Studio Ghibli Producer Doesn’t Think Hayao Miyazaki Will Ever Retire

Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki said in a recent interview that he doesn’t believe Hayao Miyazaki, who previously retired and then unretired, will ever stop working. Back in 2013, Hayao Miyazaki stepped down from feature filmmaking, saying at the time, “I would like to do something else, and that’s not animation.” By 2017, his retirement…

After Cocaine Arrest, Sega Halts Sales of New PS4 Game [Update]

Actor and musician Pierre Taki, who voices yakuza Kyohei Hamura in Judgment, has been arrested for alleged illegal drug use. Update #1 March 13 – 7:30 am: Asahi News is reporting that Disney is looking at replacing Taki as Olaf in the Japanese language version of Frozen 2. The movie is scheduled to open in…

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4K Version Of Metroid Prime 2 Is Using Textures Upscaled By A Neural Network

Just like we’ve already seen with Doom, you can use a neural network to upscale pretty much any old video game textures, and the results are amazing. Metroid Prime 2 is no exception. This 4K, 16:9 version of the GameCube classic was put together by BearborgOne, using ESRGANto help drag those textures if not into…

Fans Imagine A New Look For Banjo-Kazooie

Artists George Crudo and Sean Hicks recently set out to redesign Banjo and Kazooie to give them a more modern look. Pretending that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts never happened, the result is a cheerier, slightly Disney Infity-esque look that I am 100% behind. Hicks laid out the concept, after which Crudo made a 3D model.…

Islanders Looks Like The Cutest Lil’ City-Building Game

City-building games are always so big, and heavy. Islanders is coming at the genre from the other side, pitching itself as a light, quick and breezy way to build some nice buildings then get on with your life. The approach is eerily similar to what Bad North did to the RTS, in that it breaks…

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