Month: January 2021

Cyber Shadow sets out to answer a very simple question: what would an NES Ninja Gaiden game look and play like if it were made today? Admittedly, it’s a hypothetical that The Messenger sort of already answered back in 2018… but look, sometimes questions like these can have multiple good answers, and Cyber Shadow is
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Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) As part of the “wholesome games” trend, Calico promises quite a few of the hallmarks of the genre: cats, cafés, gentle music, soft colours, cooking, and befriending fluffy animals. The gameplay is unchallenging, but it’s meant to be that way; your in-game avatar – a magical girl you design yourself
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After dominating the realms of literature, film, and, to an extent, gaming, the Harry Potter franchise may have its wand aimed at the small screen. If reports are to be believed, Warner Bros. may be developing a live-action Harry Potter series for HBO Max.  The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news, claiming sources have informed
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AMD’s long-awaited Big Navi GPUs, the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, are finally here. But how do they compare performance-wise and which one should you consider buying when they finally come back in stock? To help answer that question, I’ve put together some lovely bar graphs of my 1080p, 1440p and 4K benchmark
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Don’t be an outsider Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Occasionally I have these moments where I can’t stop thinking about Dishonored 2. They come in fits and spurts, when I’m playing a game or I’m ordering a takeaway or I’m reading
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Welcome to TechRadar’s LGBTQ+ Gaming Week 2021, a week-long celebration during which we’re inviting LGBTQ+ gamers to tell their stories, and explore topics within the LGBTQ+ gaming community. That means throughout the week you’ll be seeing features, opinion pieces and more, on a variety of LGBTQ+ gaming-related topics, appearing on the site. LGBTQ+ Gaming Week
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Before we booted up Solitaire 3D, we tried to imagine what a Solitaire-based game would have to do to warrant a £19.99 price tag. This is a game that most PCs are born with, after all, as are Minesweeper and Paint. It’s like charging pay-per-view for watching me get out of bed. We decided to
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Award-winning indie puzzle adventure game, Arrog, will release on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on February 5th. Already available on PC and mobile devices, Arrog explores the subconscious of a dying person who has to accept their death. The game is developed by Peruvian developers LEAP Game Studios and Hermanos Magia, and will be published by Nakana.io.
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Another week has passed, so what’s been happening in the social media experiment Twitter plays Pokémon Red…inside a talented programmer’s avatar? Well, read on! After defeating the Cerulean City Water-type Gym leader Misty, Twitter boarded the S.S.Anne in Vermilion City and took on its old-time rival Blue. According to reports (via the Discord channel for
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Right after Activision announced Vicarious Visions’ merger with Blizzard Entertainment, a new Bloomberg report not only corroborated rumors of a Diablo II remake, it also corroborated a previous report of Vicarious Visions’ involvement in the project. In May 2020, French website Actu Gaming claimed that the remake did indeed exist and it was being handled
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