A Look Back At Parasite Eve‘s Great Dialogue

I love weird games, ones full of FMV cutscenes, mix-and-matched RPG battle systems, and nonsensical science fiction plots. Parasite Eve has given me all of those things, along with something I didn’t expect: great dialog. Parasite Eve follows NYPD officer Aya Brea, the sole survivor of a mass murder spree during an opera at Carnegie…

Superhot Headlines March’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup 

Superhot is a strange game that’s both hectic and tactical. If you missed it the first time around, it’s one of the games in March’s Xbox Live Game with Gold lineup. As always, these games are only “free” with an Xbox Live Gold subscription. March’s Games with Gold lineup is: Xbox One Trials of the…

People Are Already Making Silly Mods For Final Fantasy XII On PC

If you have ever wanted to play all of Final Fantasy XII as Reks, the character who dies in the opening tutorial, you’re now in luck, thanks to the power of PC modding. “Play as Reks fully” is just one of many substantial PC mods that has popped up over the past couple of weeks,…

Doom Gets Motion Controls On Switch

One of the biggest highlights of the Wii era was playing shooters like Resident Evil 4 by waggling your remote at the screen. Now you can recapture that feeling with Doom on Switch, which received a patch last night that adds motion controls. The portable version of id Software’s slick shooter just received update 1.1.1,…

After 210 Hours On Kingdom Hearts‘ Destiny Islands, Man Reaches Level 100

AaroneousGaming is a trooper. For the past month, he’s been grinding through Destiny Islands in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + II.5 Remix. And yesterday, he reached Level 100. That’s right, Level 100 in Sora’s home islands. You know, the extended tutorial where you’re supposed to get the hang of Kingdom Hearts and not where you’re…

Manga Characters Get Lots of Valentine’s Day Chocolate

This Valentine’s Day, manga publisher Shueisha got lots and lots of chocolate. Make that, characters in The Prince of Tennis were sent loads. According to creator Takeshi Konomi, the manga’s editors got ten times more chocolate this Valentine’s Day than imagined. The Prince of Tennis fans love showing their affection and appreciation! Konomi kindly thanked…

Let’s Go

Farzad Varahramyan is a veteran artist who has worked on games like Oddworld and Darkwatch, and on movies like Jumanji, After Earth and Aliens vs Predator You can see more of Farzad’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Look At This Monster Hunter Statue

Kinetiquettes will soon be releasing a few Monster Hunter pieces, including this huge statue featuring Zinogre getting stabbed at by both a male and female hunter. Both the hunters will be available as their own individual statues, but if you buy the whole set you get a Palico thrown in as well. Preorder information will…

Studio Accused Of Installing Malware On Customers’ PCs

FlightSimLabs, a studio that specialises in custom add-ons for other company’s flight sims, has been found to be secretly installing a program onto user’s computers designed to check whether they’re playing a pirated copy of their software. The code—basically a Chrome password dumping tool— was discovered by Reddit user crankyrecursion on February 18, and as…

What Made Dishonored 2‘s Time Travel Level So Good

Last fall, Dishonored 2 ripped me right out of my gaming funk. I tore through the game in two days, scouring every square inch of its wonderful setting, Karnaca. Dishonored 2’s brilliant self-assurance is compelling; I couldn’t stay away. Now, after the release of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, I found myself craving a return…

The Coolest Trick In Steep Is Hopping Uphill

I can’t get enough of the Winter Olympics, so I’ve been looking for video games that recreate the feeling of watching people risk their lives in the cold. I recently picked up Steep for its Road to the Olympics DLC. Steep nails the rush of speeding down a hill, but it’s better at capturing how…

A Gorgeous Game About A Monster-Slaying Family

In Children of Morta, I did not save a puppy. My family will never live it down. Children of Morta is a hack-and-slash game for PCs and consoles currently in development by indie studio Dead Mage and published by 11-bit, the folks behind This War of Mine. It focuses on the Bergsons, a family of…

Mouse VR game Moss (a genre we never knew we needed but have lived too long without) will be out February 27 for PSVR. Here’s an adorable trailer.

The Week In Games: A Time To Survive 

The first Metal Gear game since designer Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami split is imminent. Breakups are always tough, but Death Stranding seems to be coming along nicely and I’m stoked to see how it shakes out in…2023? Meanwhile, Metal Gear Survive appears to be a perfectly timed pivot to the new games-as-service era between…

Mario Is Getting His Own Fancy Encyclopedia

Having had tremendous success withits trio of The Legend of Zelda reference books, Dark Horse Publishing sets its sights on the Mushroom Kingdom, chronicling three decades of Nintendo gaming in the Super Mario Encyclopedia. The Super Mario Encyclopedia is an exhaustive look at nearly every Super Mario game Nintendo’s made, from Super Mario Bros. in…