Over the last few years it has felt like the older beat ‘em ups were on their way out; Tekken has changed everything that was once good about the series, and the latest Street Fighter never even launched on Xbox. Mortal Kombat was bucking this trend for the forefathers of beat ‘em ups, and the
Month: November 2020
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.4, Futures Rewritten, will release on December 8th with new content including main scenario quests, raid dungeon, trial, “explorer mode,” and more. Details are as follows: New Main Scenario Quests – With the fate of the First secured, the Scions make their long-awaited return to the Source.
Some of the best mobile games are often the most straightforward. By happy coincidence, this also means that they’re especially easy to port over to other systems. The Alto Collection takes two of mobile gaming’s most celebrated titles, Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Odyssey, and puts them together in one handy – albeit rather bare –
By Matt Bassil, Sunday, 29 November 2020 17:52 GMT Bored of playing solo and in need of a spare controller? Right now Walmart is selling wireless controllers for Xbox One and Xbox Series X at a tidy discount. There are all kinds of colours available, from the default ‘Carbon Black’ to funkier options like ‘Arctic
Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has revealed that the developer began to “incubate the potential” for new titles and talent about three years ago – prior to its split from publishing giant, Activision. Speaking to Metro, Parsons said that although Bungie’s main focus is making games, the incubations also revolve around the process of building talented
SaGa Frontier Remastered is coming to PS4, Nintendo Switch, Steam, iOS, and Android ‘mid-2020’, Square Enix has announced. SaGa Frontier Remastered, Square Enix’s rerelease of the 1998 PlayStation RPG classic, is set to hit mobile, console, and PC next year. Complete with updated graphics, events, cutscenes, enhancements – alongside an all-new protagonist – the release
As the PlayStation 5 shortage and scalper fiasco continues, eBay has issued a warning to sellers defrauding customers with photos of the console. Eurogamer reported that there is a plethora of deliberately misleading listings on eBay designed to exploit those desperately searching for a console, some of which have attracted unsuspecting bidders. The publication received
I’ve always had a problem with the way that the lore of the first Destiny was handled. When the game was launched, you could find fragments – bits and pieces of the backstory of the Destiny universe – but there was no way to actually read it in the game. No, in order to understand
The series of Five Nights at Freddy’s games that were released on Game Pass for the Xbox One has finally come to an end with this, the fourth in the franchise. Now, just as the third game broke the mold somewhat, the fourth changes things up again. Removing us from the setting of the previous
What if the bad guy was the protagonist? One with hopes and dreams, and not some common thing to be stomped on. This is the premise of Wunderling – a clever little puzzle platformer where players have access to the quintessential jump button and a few other tricks. While largely simple in both gameplay mechanics
Respawn has shared a little bit of data with us this weekend that lifts the lid of which characters get chosen the most in the on-going battle royale game Apex Legends. Earlier in the week, Respawn put out a tweet that asked players to guess which playable Apex Legends characters enjoyed the highest pick rate
Freelance journalist Bex April May inadvertently ended up recording the unboxing of an air fryer out of an Amazon UK package that should have housed a PlayStation 5. When she took to Twitter to share her experience, hundreds of people responded with similar experiences – nearly all of them documented. Folks received everything but the
The creator and mastermind behind the beloved Super Smash Bros. franchise, Masahiro Sakurai, has praised the Playstation 5 in his latest column in the Japanese publication, Famitsu. Although he complimented the backwards compatibility the new console has to offer, Sakurai aired his concerns over the small SSD and said his console was almost full already.
Square Enix has announced that it’s remastering 1997/98 PlayStation classic, SaGa Frontier, for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile devices. The game’s graphics have been revamped and the developer has added new events and features. An official overview is as follows: The team of eight have returned—now with Fuse added as a playable
Final Fantasy XIV’s next update, the much-anticipated 5.4 patch called Futures Rewritten, will be released on December 8, 2020, according to Square Enix. The upcoming patch is set to be a pretty significant one, introducing a plethora of new content to the game. Futures Rewritten, which was revealed in Final Fantasy XIV‘s latest Letter from
Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our weekly(ish) contest between box art variants from around the world. Last time, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of both that game and its host system, we looked at SNES launch title Super Mario World. Thirty years! Time has its own Magic Cape, it seems. In the end
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 29 November 2020 13:46 GMT Bandai Namco has revealed oft-requested Soul Calibur favorite Hwang will return to the series as the final SoulCalibur 6 Season Pass 2 DLC character. Hwang, the energetic Korean swordsman, is set to arrive in SoulCalibur 6 on December 2 alongside a big patch that’ll introduce a
Black Friday 2020 is over for another year, but Cyber Monday is still to come, giving avid deals hunters one last chance to bag themselves a PC gaming bargain. To help you navigate the sheer number of Cyber Monday PC gaming deals happening right now, we’ve put together this RPS-approved round-up of all the very
Black Friday is finally over, but you can still pick up a great gaming headset deal with this year’s Cyber Monday sale. With so many headsets on sale, it can be difficult to know what’s good and what’s not. Thankfully, we’ve done the hard work for you and picked out our top highlights right here
Black Friday is now over for another year, but there’s still time to grab a last minute gaming mouse and keyboard deal with this year’s Cyber Monday sale. We’ve gathered all of our top picks right here in our curated list below, presenting you with the absolute cream of the deals crop. We’ve also removed
Spoon-bending magician Uri Geller has finally given Nintendo permission to print Kadabra on Pokémon cards again after a 20 year legal battle in which Geller claimed the character’s likeness was too familiar to his own. After an article over on The Gamer once again dug into why the mid-stage evolution psychic Pokemon hasn’t appeared on
Black Friday is done and dusted for another year, but Cyber Monday is here for one last round of last minute RAM deals – and to save you the hassle of searching for them yourself, we’ve rounded up all the best DDR4 RAM deals. You’ll find all kinds of sizes and speeds here, with Cyber
CD Projekt Red has reiterated that they are very pleased with the sales of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition for the Nintendo Switch. Speaking to investors, CD Projekt Red’s Adam Kiciński talked briefly about sales of the game on the hybrid platform and stated that it was a good revenue driver for
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 29 November 2020 12:15 GMT The Mohammad bin Salman Charity Foundation is set to acquire a controlling stake in SNK, the famous Japanese fighting games company. The 813m riyals ($223 million) investment in SNK has come from one of the subsidiaries of the Mohammed bin Salman Charitable Foundation, Misk, which now
Famous magician Uri Geller has tweeted an apology today to Pokemon fans and The Pokemon Company. Twenty years ago now Mr. Geller said that the Japanese name for the Pokemon Kadabra and the image were too close to his own. He famously decided to sue Nintendo in 2000 and the Kadabra Pokemon card stopped being used in Pokemon
Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Your weekly, carefully hand-wrapped delivery of wonderful work-in-progress videogame artworks, slammed haphazardly through the mailbox by a careless postie. This week: Chilled-out reverts, celestial boneyards, crash-landing shenanigans and a rather informal shopkeep. By the time you’re reading this post, I’ll have probably grabbed my board for a bit of skating myself. So,
When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.
The Switch might be all about sharing the joy, but it’s also important to keep your system clean to help prevent the spread of germs and ensure your device and controllers stay in the best condition possible. With this in mind, Nintendo suggests using alcohol-based products to disinfect its hybrid system and Joy-Con, provided you’re
An amateur video game developer known as Dopply on Twitter has released reimagined remakes of the 1993 Phillips CD-i action-adventure games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. The games were created in Game Maker over four years and feature the original assets. Here’s a bit more insight: “I developed these
Even the legendary video game director Masahiro Sakurai needs a break every once and a while, so what does he do when he’s not working on new fighters and content for the Nintendo Switch title Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? He plays other games and systems on his insane gaming setup, of course. In his latest
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