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Devil May Cry 5‘s Ridiculous $8,600 Bundle

Capcom doesn’t have just one pricey “Ultra Limited Edition” bundle for Devil May Cry 5. It has several, including this Dante themed once, which is 972,000 yen ($8,600) tax included. Is that all? According to E-Capcom (via tipster Roy), the bundle comes with a copy of the game, interchangeable box art and a leather Dante…

Guess All These Anime References In This Week’s Pokémon Episode

Megumi Hayashibara is one of Japan’s most iconic voice actresses. Besides her singing work, she’s voiced characters including Team Rocket’s Jessie, Rei Ayanami from Evangelion and Kitty White from Hello Kitty, among many, many others. The most recent episode of the Pokémon TV anime pays homage to some of those characters How many can you…

The Limited Edition Sega Saturn Themed Music Player

The palm-sized Activo CT10 music player is getting limited edition Sega Saturn themed hardware in Japan. They go on sale late next month with the gray and white editions limited to 500 units each. Priced at 44,800 yen ($397), they come pre-installed, each comes with a few Sega tunes. The gray version, for example, has…

Take The Ride. Hanoi, Vietnam. By Jorge Cancela | Flickr JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

From Nothing To Ghost In The Shell, Just Like That

It’s currently Inktober, which means artists around the world are sharing their traditional sketches online. There’s so much good stuff out there, but I was absolutely blown away by this piece posted by Korean artist Kim Jung Gi, where he’s able to draw a Ghost in the Shell scene completely freestyle. No outlines, no reference,…

The Far Cry Series Needs To Let Things Break Again

Far Cry 2 was released on this day 10 years ago, so we thought it was appropriate to revisit what makes that game so special. This piece originally ran on April 9, 2018. Far Cry 5 suggests a world on the brink of a violence apocalypse, but the game’s sanitized gameplay and clean-cut power fantasy…

Circle Empires Is A Strategy Game That Forces You To Rely On Your Gut

Circle Empires forces me to constantly worry about merfolk shooting my troops with orbs. When it comes to dragons, I can deal. Zombies? No problem. But merfolk with orbs can hit my melee troops with an freezing attack, turning them into sitting ducks for the mer-archers. It’s a problem. I enjoy experiences from all over…

A Bloodborne Brawl In Soulcalibur VI

If you cannot get enough of the mind-bending antics of the Bloodborne universe, then now you have the chance to use Soulcalibur VI’s character creator to get your brawl on…good Hunter. The YouTube channel RajmanGaming HD has used the (apparently robust) character creation system to put together a special combat between a generic Hunter and…

The closed beta for Valve’s digital card game Artifact has been delayed to November 19. PC Gamer reports that this announcement was delivered via email to those who had previously signed up for the beta. The game is still slated for release to the public on November 28.

A Free Horror Game Collection About Loss, Driving, And Candlekeeping

Noted indie horror game creator Kitty Horrorshow has released a new, free collection of horror games, and they make for a disturbing time. Haunted Cities Vol. 3 is a collection of games emerging from behind the paywall of Horrorshow’s Patreon, and if you’re familiar with her previous games such as Anatomy and CHYRZA, then you…

Sif Is Cute In Dark Souls, Is Even Cuter In Animation

Dark Souls players know to respect Sif. After all, he carries a massive sword in his mouth and the mournful tale of his friend Artorias in his heart. But he’s also a big furry wolf who is extremely heckin’ cute. Anna Piwońska’s short, but incredible, hand-drawn animation of Sif’s initial appearance inDark Souls really hammers home…

Nice Shot! is an upcoming game where you play golf by shooting the ball with guns. It seems both incredibly silly and legitimately interesting since your shot determines the angle and force of the ball. The game’s Steam page says it will release November 9. 

Upcoming Metal Gear Survive Event Summons Pyramid Head

Pyramid Head is the long-running scary sexual terror monster from the Silent Hill franchise. Metal Gear Survive is a zombie game created from the bones of the Metal Gear universe. What better way to unite these two titan franchises than by putting Pyramid Head in Metal Gear Survive? The Metal Gear Survive developers have announced…

Finally, Players Can Add As Many Puddles To Spider-Man As They Want

A week before Spider-Man released, some people on the internet started freaking out about the game’s apparent lack of puddles. There were a lot of puddles in an early trailer for the game, and later, not as many puddles in what appeared to be the same location, which some saw as a downgrade. Fortunately, they…

Rockstar QA Studio Told That Overtime Is Now Optional After Workers Said It Felt Mandatory

Rockstar Lincoln, a UK-based studio that has been handling a lot of the quality assurance testing for Red Dead Redemption 2, is swearing off an approach that many employees say they had interpreted as mandatory overtime. That change comes as a result of a studio meeting at the end of a week full of unusually…

Teen Developer Makes Game Inspired By ’90s Shooters That Came Out Before He Was Born

Jakub Cislo is a game developer who wears his influences on his sleeve. His just-released game, Project Warlock, is a chunky shooter stew made from the gory giblets of classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. It’s a pretty typical palette of influences—until you consider that Cislo is 19, and all those games came out before he…

Soulcalibur VI’s Story Mode Does Geralt Dirty

Bandai Namco’s fighting game does an excellent job of portraying the personality and likeness of The Witcher 3 protagonist, but fails to make good on the full crossover potential CD Projekt Red blessed it with. Soulcalibur VI’s Geralt moves like a witcher and talks like a witcher but spends most of the game’s story mode…

Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending

UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news from across the pond hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag. “Despite the company’s strong performance…

Spider-Man’s New Game+ mode has finally been added to the game. Version 1.07 also adds an Ultimate difficulty setting, new frames and stickers for photo mode, and the ability to access photo mode directly with one button press. New Game+ was originally expected at the game’s launch but got delayed

You Should Opt Out Of Discord’s New Policy Changes

A small but important change to Discord’s terms of service has big ramifications for users. The social app’s terms now include a class waiver, which would prevent participation in larger lawsuits. It’ssupposedly meant to prevent frivolous lawsuits, but if you want to protect your consumer rights, a simple email will opt you out of the…