Category Archives: Χωρίς κατηγορία

Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred misses its launch window after Blizzard bungles release build, requiring everyone to download a big new update

Launching an online game is hard, this much is true. Though it may have been a while since we’ve last witnessed one of those all-time launch disasters, Diablo 4 seemingly wanted to remind everyone that we’ve been having it too good recently. Read more

Tekken 8 tournament disaster: Chinese player disqualified ahead of top 8 finish throws the scene into turmoil

Over the weekend, Chinese Tekken 8 player xiaochenchen (XCC) made a scorching run through the bracket at Thaiger Uppercut. To call this an unexpected result is an understatement. People know that there’s a fighting game space bubbling away in China, but fairly or unfairly, it’s not held in the same regard as other countries. XCC […]

A sequel to Alien Isolation, one of the best survival horror games of all time, is real – and it’s in development now

Did you get off on outsmarting enemies, tiptoeing around the xenomorph, and praying that your save file isn’t going to get permenantly screwed by a misjudged visit to a terminal in the original Alien: Isolation? Yes? Well then, you’re going to be thrilled to find out that a sequel is real, and in production at […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero review: as meaningful a send-up to the source material as one could hope for

I don’t think there’s an IP out there as experienced in celebrating itself as Dragon Ball. We’ve seen game after game look back fondly at the Frieza Saga, the Cell Saga… We’ve seen recreation after recreation, retelling after retelling. I will admit that it got tiring after a while, and I was worried at first […]

Metaphor Refantazio review: moreish, subversive RPG excellence that’s fit for a king

Have you ever seen ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch? It’s a messed up little curio of a piece, painted across three panels and representing the breadth of humanity’s foibles, from the Garden of Eden to a frigid hellscape of our own making. Created in the early 1500s, the work was […]