June may be the month of E3, but it’s also the starting line for the gaming year to truly kung-fu chop its manual stick into top gear and start firing on all cylinders. No matter your taste, budget or platform, June is a reminder that video games are an all-encompassing force whose power could be harnessed to take over the world. I mean, let’s play some video games this month.
Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is one of the best musou games ever made, lovingly rendered in green and filled to bursting with fan service content that makes you feel like the greatest badass in all the land.
If you’re a fan of Devolver’s take on the Hyperbole machine that is E3’s press conferences, then good news! They’ll be back this year with another show, and they’re already apologising in advance for it.
Mario Tennis Aces is coming to serve up some good arcade sports fun next month, and a demo next week will give you an early taste of the on court action.
E3 is no stranger to that phenomenon of estimation, as every year happens to have a few traditions. There’s the usual stuff: Press conferences running late, XBoss Phil Spencer having the finest T-shirts in the land and South African journalists being utterly buggered after flying for literal days to reach Los Angeles. So hell, why not make a game out of it? Why not get out the paper, jot down some buzzwords and prepare yourself for…E3 BINGO!
Say hello to the next duo of Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch: Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee.
Conventional wisdom states that we’re going to see the recent Sun and Moon editions wrapped up with a pretty bow on top, that’ll go by the name of Pokémon Twilight. Other rumours say that the original generation of the Red and Blue games will be resurrected once again, to mark the start of a new Pokémon journey on the Switch. Or maybe developer GameFreak has something bigger in mind.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was everything that a Castlevania fan could ever want. Now, Igarashi’s new franchise is making a retro return this month in the form of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Somebody pass me my VHS tapes of M-Net open-time recordings of Buffy The Vampire Slayer while I boot this trailer up.
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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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