Before it became famous for Pokemon, Game Freak was designing action games like Pulseman. After a long hiatus, it’s returning to its roots with Tembo the Badass Elephant, which is one of the best 2D platformers I’ve played. The story of Tembo is ridiculous, even by platform-gaming standards: a mysterious evil force called Phantom has invaded Earth, and humankind finds itself backed into a corner, fighting against this strange, oppressive regime. One hope remains to destroy Phantom: Tembo, the grizzled war veteran with four legs, a trunk, and two massive tusks. It’s up to our heroic pachyderm to crush the evil forces with his might–literally.
Being an elephant, Tembo is not normally a fast creature, but he’s got a whole mess of skills that make him a highly mobile platforming hero. Tembo’s main attack is a Sonic Rush-styled dash attack that smashes through anything in its way. The more you play, however, the more it feels like a mix between the movement of Yo…
SolSeraph is overtly inspired by the Super NES cult classic ActRaiser. If there was any shred of doubt of its roots given its mixture of action-platforming and sim-style management, that was removed when it opened with a slow spinning first-person view barrelling towards the earth–an homage to ActRaiser’s Mode-7 showpiece so specific that it virtually winks at the audience. Curiously, though, it’s some of SolSeraph’s departures from ActRaiser that let it stand on its own, for better and for worse.
SolSeraph puts you in the divine boots of Helios, the Knight of Dawn, as he helps build civilization and fight against a set of Younger Gods who each manifest as the embodiment of a natural disaster. There is a hodge-podge of religious iconography at play, and Helios looks especially angelic, but this isn’t tied to any specific faith. Instead, SolSeraph invents its own mythology, borrowing bits and pieces from world religions.
Each of the five ter…
Fortnite XP gains have been buffed yet again, marking the fourth time in the last 15 days that Epic has tended to the game’s leveling balance by increasing XP earned through challenges. After a slow start to the season for XP gains, Epic has tweaked the amount of earned XP not just several times, but by a heck of a lot.
Just yesterday, the Fortnite 18.20 patch notes once again buffed XP gains. This time it was daily challenges, which increased by 50%, or from 30,000 XP per challenge to 45,000 XP. To top it all off, today’s newest change buffs weekly XP by the same rate. Players now earn 75,000 XP per weekly challenge, up from 50,000 most recently. This was the one challenge category that actually got nerfed in the 18.10 patch, but today’s totals still outweigh even the season’s starting rate of 65,000 XP per weekly challenge. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
Previously in the 18.10 patch notes, just two wee…
The second season of Halo has arrived. For those that were hoping that in Season 2, Master Chief would keep his helmet on more, after unmasking during Season 1 now know that’s simply not going to happen. If anything, Chief is going to take off his helmet more and even spend chunks of episodes in normal civilian clothing Come from Sports betting site VPbet . It’s something star Pablo Schreiber has spoken about previously, though he fears his words were misinterpreted and wanted to clear the air.
“There’s a group of people that would prefer that the helmet never came off, right? And yeah, there have been some quotes that have been attributed to me that I don’t think, you know, display my exact words correctly,” he told GameSpot. “And maybe [they] were taken out of context. But just to be clear, you know, I love acting with the helmet. I love and respect helmet acting. And there’s obviously been many…
The “ultimate” iGaming marketing platform that allows game studios to get in touch with 800+ iGaming affiliates and more than 20 million global casino players has inked a new deal with the promising 2021-launched studio that creates highly innovative slots that stand out “in the sea of sameness”. Accordingly, RAW iGaming will enjoy more visibility and enhanced advertising for its slots by accessing First Look Games’ massive network of approved publishers.
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Together, the network brings together over 20 million global casino players, with special emphasis on highly competitive regulated gaming markets in Europe and other parts of the world. In exchange, this will guarantee high levels of exposure for the provider known for its patent-pending Super Slice engine that relies on wheels instead of the standard reels.
By partnering with First Lo…
US casino giant Caesars Entertainment opened its temporary gaming facility in Columbus, Nebraska, on Monday morning, offering players in the state slot gambling and horse racing while continuing works on its permanent facility.
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The temporary facility at Platte County Ag Society Park offers fans of slots more than 250 of the newest slot machine games, as well as wagering on horse racing via the Columbus Casino’s existing simulcast and is expected to keep players entertained until the permanent casino operating under Caesars’ popular brand, Harrah’s, becomes operational.
Speaking at the opening ceremony in the presence of Caesars’ leadership, Columbus Exposition and Racing board member, Tom Jackson, and Mayor of Columbus, Jim Bulkley, the senior vice president and general manager of Harra…
Update: The new season showcased at this event is now live. You can see everything new in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4, the new weapons, map changes, and the new battle pass. The original story follows.
Disney made an enormous investment in Epic Games and Fortnite earlier this year, and while it’s going to be some time before many aspects of this team-up bear fruit, we’ll be getting some of our first peeks at what’s in store for Disney x Fortnite at the D23 Expo in Anaheim this weekend. Even better: You’ll be able to watch this panel on an exclusive livestream inside Fortnite, and doing so will net you the Peelverine Plushie back Bling for free. The only other way to watch is to actually be in the room in Anaheim.
The presentation is happening on Saturday night at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET– and it’s hosted by Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences, which is the portion of the corporation focused on parks, gaming, and other consumer products. …
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been been out for mere hours, but at least one speedrunner has already finished it. YouTuber gymnast86 beat the massive open-world game in just 94 minutes–albeit through bypassing most of the game and heading almost straight towards the final battle.
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American tribal casino operator Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment has announced the inking of an alliance that is to see its Fallsview Casino Resort venue in Canada utilize the mobile-friendly online sportsbetting platform from Kambi Group.
The enterprise of the federally-recognized Mohegan Tribe used an official Tuesday press release to detail that the multi-year arrangement will involve the Ontario property launching a PlayFallsview-branded online sportsbook exploiting the iGaming platform from Kambi Group. The operator also stated that this advance is to come complete with an ‘unparalleled ice hockey product’ as well as the Bet Builder capability that allows punters to construct individualized wagers.
Canada concern:
Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment explained that the signing of the deal follows the launch from last month of a regulated iGaming market in the most populous Canadian province as well as its new partner’s receipt…
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It’s generally understood that Anthem was a failure for developer BioWare. It was a developmental nightmare. It reviewed poorly. It fell short of its sales target of 6 million copies by the end of March 2019. And EA ultimately decided to pull the plug on the live-service game two years after launch. But the specifics of its commercial shortcomings haven’t been clear, until now.
On Twitter, eagle-eyed “video game enthusiast” Timur222 posted an image from the LinkedIn page of Alexandre Scriabine, formerly EA’s senior manager of global marketing strategy. Summarising his achievements during that job, Scriabine lists the social media views and, crucially, sales figures of numerous games that he worked on.
It won’t shock you to hear that Anthem is at the bottom of the list, with “2M units sold week one, 5M lifetime.” In other words, its lifetime sales fell short of the target set for the game’s first full month. What’s especially telling is the time gap between the f…
Baldur’s Gate 3 swept pretty much all the game award shows of 2023 and even managed to carry its success over into 2024 after claiming best game along with four other categories at the 2024 BAFTA Awards. But apparently, winning almost every accolade imaginable isn’t what it’s cut out to be.
In an interview with Edge (via GamesRadar), Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke discussed how the overwhelming success, particularly in the award ceremonies, actually became quite obstructive to the developers’ work. “It affects development—there’s a lot of them,” Vincke says. “This has been a real problem.” So, to help remedy the situation, Larian started to send “rotating teams” to the various ceremonies to try to even out the time commitment.
Even with all the hassle of sending team after team to countless ceremonies, Larian never wanted to shrug any off. “It’s great that you have a moment of celebration… we still have award shows that we’re going to,” Vincke co…
การร่อนเวหาเป็นหนึ่งในระบบเกมของ Wuthering Waves ที่ผู้เล่นสามารถใช้งานได้ตั้งแต่ต้นเกม โดยการร่อนเวหานี้จะทำให้ผู้เล่นเดินทางไปมาระหว่างที่สูงที่อยู่ห่างกันได้ง่ายขึ้น ซึ่งแน่นอนว่าระบบนี้ไม่ได้ถูกนำมาใช้ในเกมนี้เป็นเกมแรก เพราะก่อนหน้านี้เกม Single Player อย่าง The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ก็มีการนำมาใช้ และถูกนำมาประยุกต์ใช้กับเกม RPG ชื่อดังอย่าง Genshin Impact ในเวลาต่อมาคำพูดจา�…
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Corsair is ditching 80 Plus ratings for its power supplies. Instead, it’ll opt exclusively for an efficiency standard from Cybenetics. Don’t worry, it’s a pretty easy switch to get your head around.
80 Plus Gold becomes Cybenetics Gold. 80 Plus Platinum becomes Cybenetics Platinum. You’re seeing a pattern emerge here, right? The Cybenetics range uses mostly the same system of metals to signpost efficiency as 80 Plus.
However, these efficiency ratings from Cybenetics, in Corsair’s own words, are a “more comprehensive assessment of PSU performance than its predecessor.”
“Cybenetics testing, however, is far more thorough and detailed than 80 Plus, leading to more accurate results.”
Some new ratings from Cybenetics won’t be entirely familiar to some, though. These are the Cybenetics Noise ratings, which offer a graded system from “standard” to “A++” for noise level measurements. The lower the grade, the more noticeable and loud a PSU is. You can read up on how Cy…
The pawn system in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is neat—and pawn quests are neater still. In case you’re uninitiated, when you create your “main pawn” in the game, that pawn will be hired by other players running about in their own game worlds. In other words, you’re hiring other players’ main pawns, and you’re leasing yours out all the time.
Every time you wake up in an inn room, your main pawn will come back to you with their haul—usually an item or a gift. You can also set a ‘quest’, which allows you to offer a reward from your own inventory for any number of tasks, with some being as simple as, say, finding a cyclops. This is where the MLMM (mass lackey money-making) bit comes in. Hey where are you going? This isn’t a pyramid scheme, I swear!
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As outlined by the trustworthy-sounding Thick_Shady on the game’s subreddit, you can become your own boss and make over …
10 years ago it was conventional wisdom that most popular Japanese games would never come to PC. Fast forward to now, and not only is it rare for a Japanese game to skip PC, but we’re getting deep cuts from the back catalogue too. Case in point: Rainbow Cotton was a Sega Dreamcast exclusive when it was released in 2000, and not only that, it was never released outside of Japan. Oh, and it reviewed pretty poorly too. Hardly a game you’d expect to get the remaster treatment in 2023, but never mind: now it’s hitting Steam.
Rainbow Cotton is a 3D rail shooter belonging to the Cotton series, which has been quietly reanimated of late: 1991’s Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams—a sidescrolling shooter—was reissued on Steam in 2021, and a brand new game in the series, borrowing from the sidescrolling format, released earlier this year. So don’t go saying the Cotton series has been unduly neglected! Rainbow Cotton was the last Cotton game, unless you count Magical …
- PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 1 report
- PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 2 report
- PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 3 report
Sad news, guys. It’s the last day of Tokyo Game Show 2024. PC Gamer has been at the show for the last three days and, as detailed in previous reports (see links above), it’s been a good show for PC gamers and PC gaming. After analysing the latest trends at TGS 2024 in both our Day 1 and Day 2 reports, we’ve then moved on to key Japanese game publisher booth deep dives. Yesterday, in our Day 3 report, we covered Square Enix, Sega, and Bandai Namco’s offerings, while today we’re going to focus on Capcom, Konami and SNK.
Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds
Capcom is probably the strongest Japanese game publisher at the moment thanks to the continuing success of its evergreen IPs, which include Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, and Resident …