2021’s Hot Wheels Unleashed set the stage for a new era of Hot Wheels racing games. It wasn’t just a racing game, but a celebration of the tiny toy cars that felt larger-than-life thanks to the game’s physics-based racing and grandiose scale of its environments. Those pillars are what made …

It’s no secret Twin Peaks has served as a key inspiration for the Alan Wake series, but it’s not the only piece of pop culture guiding Remedy Entertainment’s upcoming sequel. Some are obvious, but less apparent are some of its bigger influences–the work of Marvel–that have factored into the upcoming …

One of Alan Wake 2’s two campaigns is so scary that developer Remedy Entertainment considers its other protagonist’s world of Bright Falls a “breather” for players–despite also having plenty of frights. Sitting down with Alan Wake’s co-director Kyle Rowley and senior narrative designer Molly Maloney for an interview following a …

After 23 years of lying dormant, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s post-apocalyptic manga Sand Land emerges from the barren wasteland anew, and in a massive way, with an all-new, feature-length CGI anime movie and action-RPG both from publisher Bandai Namco. After its world premiere at Summer Game Fest, I got …

Alan Wake 2 is not cutting corners on its commitment to being a detective survival horror. It’s a game that has a clarity of vision that looks to be executed by a Remedy that is firing on all cylinders. Alan Wake’s return, even at this stage, is shaping up to …

At first glance, Ra Ra Boom looks like an energetic brawler with a badass cast of women unleashing fists, kicks, and bullets on waves of robot baddies, each hit punctuated with rainbow-colored explosions as metal body parts sail across the screen. It is absolutely what it looks like: vibrant, energetic, …

There’s no dancing around it: El Paso, Elsewhere, the new action game from Strange Scaffold, is an unabashed homage to the 2001 seminal pulp-noir action classic Max Payne. It’s an obvious influence that writer, director, and voice actor Xalavier Nelson Jr. isn’t shying away from, but is hoping to elevate …

Resident Evil 4 Remake is only weeks away, but there are still so many questions to answer about Capcom’s ambitious remake. Thankfully, I got the chance to see about 20 minutes of gameplay which gave me a glimpse into the lake area, the castle, and the iconic Krauser knife fight. …

Resident Evil 4 is one of the greatest games ever made, but I don’t have to tell you that. I don’t have to remind you that it changed the landscape of third-person action games, or that it single-handedly redefined the entire Resident Evil franchise, as well as the survival-horror genre …

Masayoshi Yokoyama, executive producer of RGG Studios and writer of the Yakuza series, said during the RGG 2022 summit that Like A Dragon: Ishin is meant to be the all-star Yakuza game. It’s pitched as a game that will feature characters from the entire franchise, music from across the games, …