March was starting to look like a bit of a too busy month for gamers this year, but good (and mostly terrible) news! One of the heaviest hitters of the year won’t be making its original release date, instead slipping a few weeks back and going head to head with Cyberpunk 2077 instead. The game in question? None other than Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is ditching its original release date of March 3 for April 10.
Ever wished that you could use a Nintendo GameCube controller on your Nintendo Switch? One talented modder has made that dream a reality.
Membrane-based keyboards are horrible things to use. The rubber domes are squishy, with none of the delicious tactile feedback you’ll find from a good mechanical. There’s a good reason that membrane keyboards are so pervasive though: they’re cheap.
Temtem deserves to be on the radar of anyone with a love for catch ‘em all gameplay, as this love letter to the genre is working to take the idea of pocket monster fun into a more exciting and social direction.
The exercise game built around some RPG-lite elements has proved to be an incredible endurance test as speedrunners spend around 18 hours completing it. I’ll admit, speedrunning has always been a fascination of mine, although it’s something I think better appreciated from afar. There are so many great games out there that spending days on days just playing through a …
I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that the two most pervasive new genres in video games are the Battle Royale – which birthed games like Fortnite Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds; and 2019’s popular Auto Chess, the mod of a mod that’s given rise to games like Dota Underlords, Teamfight Tactics and Hearthstone: Battlegrounds. Here's a game that's both.
A couple of years ago, the Xbox One was seen as a perfectly alright console that was being completely outclassed on the first-party front by Sony. These days? It’s a much better system, has a beefy little brother in the Xbox One X and is still being outclassed by Sony on the first-party games front…but not for long. With a …
A select group of players will finally have the opportunity to see whether Fallout 76 can actually be turned into a game.
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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