Players can grab two classic adventure games, Syberia 1 and 2, for free on PC thanks to a GOG.com giveaway, but only for a limited time. You’ll need a GOG.com account to claim the free games and agree to receive marketing communications via email from the virtual game store. Syberia …
Read More »Uno Is Getting Its First Championship Series With Big Cash Prize
In unexpected esports competition news: The first Uno Championship Series is happening, and you can participate. Part of the card game’s 50th anniversary celebration, the Uno Championship Series Invitational will be held in-person in Las Vegas on November 11, 2021 and offers a grand prize of $50K. Select players of …
Read More »Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Series Teaser Images Are Out, And The Font Is Ugly
Via new Steam listings, Square Enix released teaser images for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games. To put it politely, choices were made regarding the new font in the remastered games, and the internet largely thinks they were bad ones. You can check out a few in-game screenshots below that …
Read More »EA Play Adds Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered On June 24
EA Play will add Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered on June 24. The remastered version improves on the original 2010 racing game of the same name by enhancing visuals and including all the DLCs. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered launched in 2020 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, …
Read More »Minion Rush Just Hit 1 Billion Downloads
Mobile game Minion Rush has just reached 1 billion downloads across all platforms, making it the first game based on a film to reach that milestone, Deadline reports. It joins other major mobile titles with over a billion downloads including Pokemon Go and PUBG Mobile, which reached the milestone earlier …
Read More »Activision Blizzard CEO Talks Remakes, Says Pitfall Is A Candidate
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has spoken about retro games and remakes, which has been an area of success for the company in recent years. In an interview with GamesBeat, Kotick shared some high-level thoughts on the company’s strategy, and he also singled out one franchise in particular that could …
Read More »Konami Marks Konami Code's 35th Anniversary With Lofi Gradius Tracks
To celebrate 35 years of the Konami Code, a cheat created by the late Japanese developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto, Konami has released some lofi remixes from Gradius, the side-scrolling shooter Hashimoto’s cheat was designed for. For the remixes, Konami dropped a 33-minute long video of lofi tracks from the game’s soundtrack. …
Read More »Google Adds Pac-Man, Hello Kitty, And Evangelion Unit To AR Search
Google added AR characters from well-known Japanese pop culture franchises in its search function on mobile. You can now find Hello Kitty, Pac-Man, Gundam, Ultraman, Evangelion, and much more represented in their 3D form. A few of the characters, including Cogimyun, Hello Kitty, and Pompompurin, come with their own audio …
Read More »New Super Monkey Ball Title Potentially Leaked
Earlier today, a new Super Monkey Ball game titled Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania was listed on The Australian Classifications board, seemingly indicating a new entry in the long-running franchise is coming. If this leak follows the same timeline as the last entry in the Super Monkey Ball series–which was …
Read More »Terraria Patch 1.4.2 Brings Steam Workshop Support
Re-Logic’s action-adventure sandbox game Terraria is getting a massive update on PC that adds the ability for players to create, download, play, and share levels through Steam Workshop. The full patch notes for Update 1.4.2 are outlined below. The Steam Workshop support in Terraria gives the game sharing functionality similar …
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