No More Heroes 3 once again puts you into the stylish boots of Travis Touchdown. The punk rock series that started on the Wii has gotten its third and apparently final planned entry, wrapping up the story of Travis’ quest to be the universe’s greatest assassin. True to type, NMH3 …
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Psychonauts 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to Double Fine’s Psychonauts, a game about a crew of psychic kids attending summer camp to hone their skills. Now, after idolizing the expert psychics for years, Raz and his friends have been accepted into the Psychonauts! Well, the intern program anyway. But not …
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Forspoken, the Square Enix project formerly known as Project Athia, got a new trailer at today’s PlayStation Showcase. The lengthy PS5 trailer showed the hero, Frey, journey from our real world into a magical land. Naturally, as a hero from another land, Frey has to contend with legions of monsters, …
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We got a new look at Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy at the PlayStation Showcase, ahead of its release next month. The new trailer was mostly focused on the story, showing the gang coming into contact with the Universal Church of Truth, a religious fundamentalist cult that does not take …
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Insomniac is heading up another Marvel superhero game. Announced in a brief teaser-trailer at the PlayStation Showcase, its next game will be Marvel’s Wolverine. A brief teaser-trailer showed a bar that had been utterly trashed, before slowly panning to a single man left standing. And if there were any doubt …
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In Psychonauts 2, Bob Zanotto has severe depression. When Raz explores the mind of the former Psychic Six member, he finds Bob adrift on an island of loneliness, peppered with hints of alcoholism. Entering Bob’s Bottles and helping him cope with his grief is one of the memorable moments in …
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The mild-mannered Compton Boole’s mind is inspired by an Iron Chef-style cooking game show in Psychonauts 2. When Raz enters the mind of the former member of the Psychic Six, he finds the cooking metaphor is the manifestation of all of Compton’s self-doubts and imagined criticisms from his real-life Psychonaut …
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Hearthstone is getting its first crossover character from another Blizzard franchise, as part of its upcoming Mercenaries game mode. The new mode launches on October 12, and one of the eponymous mercenaries will be the devil himself from the Diablo series. He’s available as one of three pre-purchase bundles for …
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Mobile games and console games used to be very clearly distinct, but those lines are getting blurrier every day. Thanks to higher-powered mobile devices and the advent of streaming and remote play, you can play console-quality games–or stream actual games from your console–right on your iPhone or iPad. Here’s how …
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Chances are you have a powerful gaming system in your pocket right now. Newer models of iPhone are even more powerful than some recent dedicated gaming hardware, and more developers are being sure to put controller options into their mobile games. Whether you want to play the wealth of games …
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