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For more games on our Best of 2020 list, head here. Game #8: Astro's Playroom Who knew a tech demo of a PS5 could bring so much joy to both old-school and newbie gamers? If anything, SIE Japan's Asobi Team hit it out of the ballpark with its 3D platformer that highlights the chief reason you want to fight tooth and nail to get a PS5: i...
2020 was a crappy year, but at least we had a ton of games to play and revel in. And the best part? 2020's video games had a ton of awesome plot reveals, story bits, and gameplay moments that made you glad you experienced it from start to finish. We are going to talk about them right now. Fair warning: there will be a TON of spoilers from her...
While we're speculating whether Microsoft and Xbox are planning on making billion-dollar acquisitions of giant video game-making companies, we should look back at one of their major attempts back in 2000. According to a Bloomberg report on Xbox, Microsoft once proposed buying Nintendo in order to lock in its first-party games for the Xbox. Ninte...
Square Enix and People Can Fly's upcoming loot-and-shoot RPG Outriders will be delayed yet again. The game will be out on 1st April instead of 2nd February as previously planned. However, the publisher and devs will be launching a free demo featuring the first few hours of the game on 25th February for Xbox Series X, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, and PC v...
Sad news for fighting game fans everywhere: SNK has postponed today's reveal trailer for The King of Fighters XV, alongside the Samurai Shodown Season Pass 3 character trailer. The announcement was made on SNK's Twitter. "Today’s announcement of The King of Fighters XV and Samurai Shodown‘s Season Pass 3 which was originall...
For more KKP Best of 2020 entries, head here. #9: Streets of Rage 4 2020 has its shares of old 90s gaming properties coming back to life, from Battletoads to Trials of Mana. Thankfully, they're all good and retains the spirit of their predecessors. You can add Streets of Rage 4 onto that prestigious pedestal. Developers Guard Crush ...
For the rest of 2020's best games, head here. #10: BPM Bullets Per Minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36pPvuWfzg Much like this year's indie darling Hades, BPM Bullets Per Minute requires you to restart your roguelike run if you die. The kicker? BPM is a first-person shooter where you have to fire your gun(s) AND reload in sync to the...
Everspace 2 had a rough start in 2020. Its Early Access release was postponed twice: once because of COVID-19 and twice due to not wanting to mess with December's Cyberpunk 2077 release. We definitely do not blame them. Still, things are looking bright for developer Rockfish Games; they will be releasing the Early Access version of Everspace 2 o...
Check out our collection of Best Of 2020 articles here. #11: Genshin Impact As far as Breath of the Wild clones go, this F2P offering from Mihoyo isn't half-bad. In fact, it's shaping up to be quite a long-term thrill ride. From its large map to its combat, there's a lot that clicks with Genshin Impact. Control a party of four characte...
Twitter account AniPlaylist stated that official soundtracks for the Persona series (and Catherine the puzzle game about infidelity and sheep) are out on Spotify right now. This includes the following: Persona 2 Sound Collection Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 Persona 3 & FES Original Soundtrack Persona 4 & Golden Original Soundtrack Pers...
For more 2020 gaming goodness, head here. #12: Gears Tactics Up until now, it's tough to find a strategy game as nail-biting, as in-depth, and as action-packed as XCOM and XCOM 2. But Splash Damage has done it with Gears Tactics. Staying on-brand with the Xbox franchise, you have to deal with a ton of Locusts and chest-high walls to hi...
Double Fine, the game development company run by Tim Schafer that's partnered with Xbox, just released a 9-minute video about the current state of its upcoming game Psychonauts 2. Long story short, it's coming out soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06rCM04SDUw How soon? Try 2021. Schafer explained that "all the levels are in the game" and ...
For more 2020 best game pickings & musings, head here. #13. Carrion (PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) In Carrion, you get to relive your dreams of being an 80s sci-fi monster taking down those pesky humans trying to contain your existence. For 5 hours or so, you control the ever-growing biomass as it kills its way to freedom out of the unde...
For more 2020 best games content, head here. #14: Granblue Fantasy Versus (PS4, PC) It's slim pickings for fighting games this year, unless you count season passes for Tekken 7 and new expansions for Mortal Kombat 11 and Street Fighter 5. But our lone pick, Granblue Fantasy Versus, is impressive on its own merits. For casual players, you h...
A recent Sensor Tower report has listed the top mobile games of 2020 from January to December. And no, there's isn't a mobile RPG gacha in the top three. Instead, the top 6 games that earned its respective publishers a ton of money (in USD billions) are: PUBG Mobile, earning PUBG Corporation US$2.6 billion. Arena of Valor/Honor of Kings,...
Sometimes, you just have to take a stand for your product no matter the backlash. Such is the case of Sense: A Cyberpunk Story and its developer Top Hat Studios. See, Top Hat Studios announced the Nintendo Switch version of Sense: A Cyberpunk Story, which was out on PC Steam back in 25th August of 2020. Since that announcement, the company has b...
Congratulations, Valve. As of 2nd January 2021, Steam's all-time peak concurrent connected user count has broken the 25 million mark (via SteamDB). The actual number is 25,415,080. For reference, 8.1 million gamers were in-game in March 2020. So which games caused this 25 million all-time peak? Counter-Strike GO, which is currently at 1 ...
Disclaimer: we'll be updating this guide with more maidens periodically. The latest mobile turn-based RPG game from Sega and Delight Work are having a go at the Sakura Wars franchise with a spin-off called Sakura Kakumei (or Sakura Revolution). Just like the developer's last work Fate: Grand Order, you control a bunch of heroes and make them...
The most recent Xbox podcast hosted by Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb featured a lengthy topic discussion about the recent Bethesda acquisition. The man on point in the discussion? Xbox division head honcho Phil Spencer. He said the following: The Xbox and Bethesda deal's final approval will come in 2021. Right now, Microsoft is "hands-off" w...
Malaysia animation studio Monsta and Astro Shaw released a trailer of its upcoming sci-fi animation film Mechamato. And it's looking pretty sweet action-wise; check it out below. https://youtu.be/YD-rSKne1_w Mechamoto is about a kid named Amato who stumbles upon an alien destroyer bot named Mechabot who has the abilities to mechanized objects...
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