Author: Blake Hester

[ad_1] Tonight during The Game Awards, we got a new extended look at The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the upcoming animated movie about, well, the Super Mario Bros. Check it out below: The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be released on April 7, 2023. It’s being animated by Illumination Entertainment, the production company behind the Minions and Despicable…

[ad_1] At long last, Final Fantasy 16 has a release date. Announced tonight during The Game Awards, Square Enix revealed the game will be released on June 22, 2023. Following in the tradition of other FF16 trailers, our new glimpse looks great – and definitely expensive. From combat, bosses, story, and world, everything pops off…

[ad_1] Introduction As of writing, the fastest runthrough of Neon White’s “Smackdown” level is 9.56 seconds, earned by player “earlobe” on September 6, 2022. Standing in contrast is the work that went into it. According to designer and creative director Ben Esposito, the earliest iteration was in March 2019, more than three years before its…

[ad_1] Let me fill you in on a little secret most people won’t tell you: the real way to enjoy a video game show is at home, comfortably on your couch, watching the event on YouTube.  Over the years, the game press has done a remarkable job tricking you into thinking otherwise. The shows look…

[ad_1] It’s late on a Thursday afternoon. It’s time for a break. Let’s finally getting back to our Gundam streams. We’re going live over on our Twitch channel to build the Master Grade Tallgeese from Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.  Join us at 5:00 P.M. Central Time (6:00 P.M. ET/3:00 P.M. PT) to watch the build. We likely won’t get through…

[ad_1] Depending on how you look at it, The Last of Us Part I is either a from-the-ground-up remake or a very involved remaster. Either way, it packs many enhancements over the base game. While I didn’t care much for Part I, if you’re interested in checking it out yourself, here are some of the…

[ad_1] When discussing the founding of Starward Industries, game director Marek Markuszewski brings up all the points you might expect from a new team. The company wanted to gather a group of experienced but still-passionate developers, all focused on the idea of creating something ambitious despite the studio’s smaller size. The surprise, however, comes from…

[ad_1] The new and improved PlayStation Plus is live and surprisingly great.  Of course, it has all the titles you might expect: God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and a bunch of other triple-A games. Whatever. But there’s more to it than PlayStation’s ever-growing list of really expensive games. I had little-to-no interest in the…

[ad_1] Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, the Borderlands-meets-DND spin-off from earlier this year, is finally coming to Steam, publisher 2K Games and developer Gearbox Software announced today. You’ll be able to play it on June 23. Two different editions will be available – the Standard and, as Gearbox calls it, “Chaotic Great Edition.” The latter includes the…

[ad_1] In 2021, while interviewing creator Ben Esposito about then-upcoming Neon White, he told me he wasn’t trying to make a game appealing to everyone. He wanted Neon White to appeal to “really specific people.” Put another way, as Esposito said in one of the game’s trailers, it’s a game made for “freaks.” I guess…