Return to Night City in Dark Horse Comics’ new tie-in comic book series Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word. Debuting April 28, Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #1 (opens in new tab) follows three individuals in three separate storyline that takes them from the gleaming spires of corporations down …
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Now is a great time to be after the cheapest PS4 controller prices and deals going. The controller works with both the PS4 and the PS5 (but only with the PS4 games on the latter), so it pays dividends to have extras around to ensure you have a charged pad …
Read More »Why Nier: Replicant had to be made, and why its “so much more than a simple version up”
More than ten years after its original release, cult classic JRPG Nier Replicant is being rebuilt for modern hardware. Debuting on PS3, Nier originally followed a father’s quest to cure his ailing young daughter Yonah. Now Nier returns reimagined as a previously Japan-exclusive teen protagonist and his journey to heal …
Read More »Meet Mike Mignolas new revenant hero Cojacaru the Skinner with co-creator Christopher Golden
Mike Mignola is expanding his creator-owned empire, with not just a new group of heroes but a whole new universe separate from his long-running Hellboy family of titles affectionately known as the Mignolaverse. What’s coming now is the Outerverse. Built out of his and long-time collaborator Christopher Golden’s prose novels …
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy go from misfits to bonafide superheroes – the inside story with Al Ewing
A new era for Marvel Comics’ flagship cosmic team began in this week’s Guardians of the Galaxy #13 (opens in new tab). The space-faring family of misfits is being corralled into something more legitimate – and becoming actual superheroes! – as part of Marvel Comics’ ‘New Age of Space’. (Image …
Read More »Open Roads takes Gone Homes developer on a star-studded road trip
No one at Fullbright knew what 2021 would look like when it brought its third game to Annapurna Interactive in 2018. Even so, it’s hard to deny the allure of the open road is particularly keen now that long-distance travel is off the table. The studio’s goal back then, though, …
Read More »The history of Animal Crossing: How the series evolved from an N64 oddity to a Nintendo Switch system seller
Few companies can turn failure into a success story quite like Nintendo. Whether it’s the Wii U games that tanked on release but are suddenly must-have games on Switch, or turning the fortunes of the laughed-out-of-town DS around almost overnight and growing it into one of the most successful handhelds …
Read More »Best Shots review: Children of the Atom #2 struggles to push past the main story beats of the first issue
Vita Ayala, Bernard Chang, and Marcelo Maiolo cast a spotlight on Gabe Brathwaite (aka Cherub) in Children of the Atom #2 (opens in new tab), an issue that continues to explore what it means to not fit into society – mutant or human. While the human element here is very …
Read More »Resident Evil Re:Verse is a strange way to celebrate 25 years of survival horror
Have you ever wondered who would win in a brawl between Nemesis and Jack Baker? This is the sort of argument that should have no clear answer. It should exist hypothetically, as a discussion designed to keep a divisive fandom engaged eternally in the online era. To celebrate Resident Evil’s …
Read More »Don’t be afraid to turn down Outriders World Tiers
Outriders has four “Mantras of Survival”; memorable maxims marketed by developer People can Fly to teach players about the unique rhythms of its third-person shooter combat. Currently, there’s “Cover’s for cowards”, “Think aggressive”, “Powers on tap”, and “Kill to heal”, but now that the game is out in the wild, …
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