You wake up for a new day of work on your privateMinecraftserver and hear the clickety-clack of a skeleton burning in the sun. You steady yourself for a hunting session inThe Forestbefore noticing the few dead birds that decided to spend the night on your firepit. You sigh and whisper to yourself:“isn’t there a survival game with good AI?”. There is! There are a lot of survival games with arguably good AI....

So you’re playing a lot ofTekken 8. You’ve put some time into the cast, maybe picked out a main, and now you want to go learn some sick combos to run in the practice room. Problem is, how do you read it? Move notation inTekken 8is deceptively simple, but that doesn’t mean everyone can learn it right away. Especially considering that you might be coming from another fighting game scene with its own style for move notations, having a handy guide is helpful for learning the basics....

After plenty of online speculation around whether it would actually happen, The Pokémon Company hasreleased a statementabout “another company’s game” released in January 2024. And we can say what we’re all thinking:Palworld. Though the company doesn’t namePalworldor Pocketpair outright, the assumption is that’s what this statement is about, unlessPrince of Persiahas a super-secret stage I don’t know about. But the statement says The Pokémon Company has received “many inquiries” regarding another company’s game released in January 2024, and TPC says it intends to “investigate and take appropriate measures” to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property (IP) rights related to Pokémon....

October 27 Nintendo is pretty much all in forMonster Hunter. “Ninten’ now does what Sony don’t,” and doubled down on the franchise in the past five years or so, helping to produce console and portable iterations as well as a healthy partnership with amiibo figures. Expect to hear about all of that and more on October 27, as Nintendo has just announced a specialMonster Hunterdirect for that date in Japan. Let’s recap everything in the world ofMonHun....

This game’s journey is fascinating I’m sure you rememberRime. It was revealed several years ago, and its big claim to fame is that it looked likeIco, and was compared toWind Wakerby the developers. Well, it’s had a really interesting lifecycle. Initially, it was offered as an exclusive to Microsoft, but was eventually rejected. Then Sony took it under its wing, and although the details clearly are under NDA (besides the fact that they wanted the IP back), developer Tequila Works seemed to have a bad experience, and re-acquired the rights toRimeback in March 2016....

OK, so we think this is the real deal. It’s not that it doesn’tsoundgreat, but being April 1 and all… Twisted Pixel, developers of the excellentThe Mawfor Xbox LIVE Arcade, have revealed its next title to be an original IP,‘Splosion Man. According to the press release, it’s exactly what it sounds like — a game where you control a guy made out of explosions. Other stuff, and lots of it, will also explode....

If you were under the impression that Platinum Games’Bayonettawas going to be a casual walk in the park, then you might not want to get your hopes up, Game director Hideki Kamiyadoesn’t want youto be under any false assumptions about his game — it’s going to kick your arse. “There are also cases where a game isn’t akusoge[slang word for crap game], but it wasn’t exactly what you were looking for, so you feel burned by the experience....

Assassin’s Feed Did you know there’s anAssassin’s Creedboard game in the works? I didn’t. It’s being made by a team of ex-Ubisoft developers, and it looks like it’s loosely based on the gameV-Commandos, which has been compared to video games likeCommandosorShadow Tactics. Basically, you control of team of assassins, each with his or her own special abilities, sneaking around, stealth killing dudes. Seems like a perfect fit for the franchise, right?...

The first five videos this week are all Mega64 stuff. The first three is their Spike TV ads for theaward show that took place yesterday. The second two videos are behind the scenes of them making the ads. Fourteen videos up this week, which include another bunny related video, 2 more ads for Spike TV award show featuring Leeroy Jenkins, a video montage of games starring ninjas (in honor of Ninja Day that passed by this week), a gummy bear penis ship, a how to guide to killing someone Splinter Cell style, a real life capture the flag event, the Wii being played on the set of 24 and a video of the Wii, 360, and PS3 as they plan on taking over the world....

As someone who’s been playingFortnitemore or less since its culturalinception, seeing the game today is kinda wild. Between the near-constant IP and brand partnerships, the pro community that has evolved around the game, and a plethora of new features added,Fortnitehas become more than it once was. In early 2018, the game unveiledpatch 3.0, and as usual added new outfits, including the introduction of the infamous John Wick skin. But, it also unveileda featurethat some could argue made the game a bit easier for new players — Turbo Building....

And what will be left of them? Supermassive Games is gearing up for the launch ofThe Devil in Me,the fourth and final episode in the first season of its scary, (and highly enjoyable) anthology series,The Dark Pictures.Publisher Bandai Namcoreleased a new trailer, focusing on the hapless folk treading, foolhardily, into The Curator’s world. The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Mewill tell a tale of a party of documentary makers who find themselves invited to a modern replica of the “The Murder Castle” — the opulent estate of America’s first publicized serial killer H....

I’m going dark side, now [Update:EA has officially responded to the pricing structure and has decided to backpedal. you may read the changesover here.] EA and DICE caught some flak over the ludicrous loot boxes in the beta forStar Wars Battlefront II, but the last we heard, everything wasgoing to be revised. I guess the only logical outcome we should have expected was that EA was going to fleece us even harder, as some users have found out just how far EA is willing to go to make microtransactions work....

A demo for Playlogic’s hack-and-slash title,Fairytale Fights, has hit Xbox LIVE Maretplace and is available for download now. The demo will give you a taste of the game’s combat, as it puts you into the “White Room” and let’s you hack and slash things for 90 seconds. Given the nature of the game, things get bloody, and it should give you a decent idea of what the game’s combat is like....