The revival of the “Silent Hill” franchise has been glorious to watch. Years of online dedication and PlayStation 2 emulators have led to a new wave of fans — those who weren’t alive to witness the franchise’s peak years in the early 2000s. Culminating in the Bloober Team 2024 remake...
Nowadays it feels that everything in video games is hand fed to the player. Gone are the days where you can find something hidden behind a waterfall, alerted by the sparkly sound being emitted by a concealed collectible. Gone are the days of sneaking through halls and knowing where your...
“Yume Nikki,” is a Japanese indie title, created by the video game developer, Kikiyama and released on June 26, 2004. The game receives praise for its surrealist nature, with many popular games such as “Undertale” and “Doki Doki Literature Club” having drawn inspiration from it. The main protagonist of the...
Giant Squid Studios has dropped a new trailer for their upcoming video game “Sword of the Sea,” which was confirmed to be releasing in 2025 earlier this year for PS5, PC and Epic Games Store. This new trailer gives an all new look into their upcoming game as well as...
“Phasmophobia,” a popular multiplayer supernatural horror game, just got something big announced for it: A film adaptation by Blumhouse studios. Blumhouse is well known for their hit “Five Nights at Freddys,” film adaptation with a sequel on its way, as well as having a “Dead By Daylight,” film adaptation in...
About two years ago, on May 24, 2023, Giant Squid Studios’s next game, “Sword of the Sea,” was announced. Giant Squid Studios is a video game company that has also made games such as “Abzû,” and “The Pathless” both of which take place entirely in nature, with the former in...
The many efforts of revolutionary game development have taken forms that go beyond just the controller and screen. Many people still remember Nintendo’s power glove and all the earlier versions of virtual reality that tried to implement more of the player’s actual movements into the games. Even as technology evolved,...
The gaming studios of Bethesda have been known in the past to be theultimate publisher of single-player games. Many of their earlier works havebeen praised for their content quality and worldbuilding, like the Falloutseries and The Elder Scrolls. Unfortunately, their name over the years hasdiminished in respect because of many...
I recently recalled a PlayStation executive mentioning how their brand did not have a lot of IP. So, I dug into my gaming library and realized how inane of a statement it was. Guerilla Games’ “Killzone” was first released on the PS2 back in 2004. The series dealt with the...
What happens when you combine dark fantasy elements with classic 1st Person, action-heavy sequences? You don’t get a “Heretic” but you do get a Doom Slayer. An ancestor that is just the no mercy, no-nonsense character that Doomguy harbors. The eighth main entry in the “Doom” franchise, “Doom: The Dark...
As we continue to see the rise of game prices and the fall in the quality that these sorts of games should have, many gamers are left to seek out alternatives. Like most industries, the big names of game publishers are more focused on profits and will restrict the freedom...
The Nintendo Direct occurred a few days ago now, and it has gotten a ton of people talking about it. The biggest discussion is about the Switch 2, which was announced to be released on June 5th this year. However, the main thing people are discussing is not the new...
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