Overwatch hits 30 million players, too many of them are Hanzos

Cheers, love! The cavalry’s here! Overwatchreleased almost a year ago and it shows absolutely no signs of slowing down. There were 7 million players in the first week,15 million by August, and20 million by November. Its growth rate is steady as it keeps accumulating total registered users. Recently,Overwatchhit another milestone. As announced in the tweet embedded below, Blizzard’s team shooter hit 30 million total players: More than 30 million players have charged into Overwatch!...

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Daniel Roberts

Palword fastest mounts tier list: Flying, Ground, and more

Palworldhas a great amount of mounts available for players to use. Plus, they come in different categories: Flying, Ground, Swimming, and Gliding. But every mount has its own speed, and to help you find the best one for you, here is a tier list of all mounts inPalworldbased on speed.

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 50 words · Jimmy Mitchell

Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble 3 floats down to consoles on July 11

It was almost a year ago that welearnedof modern console port plans forParasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble 3. Now ININ has come through with a date, opening the umbrella for a smooth glide to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox consoles on Jun 06, 2025. With that lovely news comes an appropriately bubbly release date trailer, showing some footage of the port and promising “many quality-of-life enhancements....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 237 words · Laura Espinoza

Peruvian brawler Tunche is next week’s Epic Games Store freebie

Welcome to the Jungle Epic Games has revealed the next title that it will be offering up to allEpic Games Store users— From March 30, EGS customers will be able to bag themselves the charming and challenging brawler roguelike,Tunche, completely free of charge. Releasedin the fall of 2021and developed by Peruvian indie outfit LEAP Game Studios, Tunche is a unique blend of screen-based brawler action, married to a challenging roguelike format....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Megan Caldwell

Pokemon Home will be down for a bit to adjust for the new Crown Tundra DLC

Right around its release Pokemon Homeis about to get a lot busier, so the powers that be are making some adjustments later this week. That means there’s going to be some downtime; which is taking place on Thursday, October 22 at 23:00 UTC until October 23 at 4:00 UTC (the latter is the planned end time, which could be extended). In case you missed it, Nintendo recently revealed the release date forPokemon SwordandShield’s Crown TundraDLC,which is due out on October 22as the last known DLC and second part of the season pass....

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Laurie Harding

Review in Progress: Destiny 2

So what’s changed? Destinywas an odd, money-making beast. It was arguably one of the biggest and most polarizing games in recent memory, with the negative side of the coin winning out vocally — and I was somewhere in the middle. I mean, I cleared every raid in the game, including hard modes and challenges, the week they were out, so I knowDestiny. I know its faults, its successes, and most importantly, what it needs to do to improve and keep players long term....

August 10, 2025 · 4 min · 841 words · Jason Mayo

Scorchlands is a magical colony builder on a volcanic moon

Shuffle resources with arcane lasers There’s nothing quite like that first marathon session with a new city builder when everything’s fresh and you haven’t backed yourself into a corner yet. In the upcoming hex-grid-based colony sim gameScorchlands,you’ll terraform a volcanic moonwith a blend of science and magic, weaving an “industrial web” of lasers to transport resources. Instead of a far-off overseer, you’ll play as a bird-like Giwi on the ground. Having a colorful palette and a few wrinkles to shake up the usual city-builder format goes a long way....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Victoria Roth

Sega acquire UK indie developer Two Point Studios

Good medicine Sega has announced that its European divisionhas acquired British developer Two Point Studios, best known for their comical hospital simulationTwo Point Hospital. Two Point has been taken under the Sega umbrella as part of the publisher’s Searchlight program, which aims to boost the status of talented-but-smaller game developers. Two Point Studios was formed in 2016 by former Lionshead and Bullfrog developers Mark Webley, Gary Carr and Ben Hymers (hence the inherent ability to create a great management sim)....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 321 words · Norman Johnson

Street Fighter Memorial Archive looks back at thirty years of franchise artwork

Now available to order from Japan A new book was released in Japan this week celebrating thirty years of Capcom’s incredible, genre-defining fighting game franchise,Street Fighter. The Street Fighter Memorial Archive: Beyond the Worldis a 256-page tome packed full of artwork and info from three decades of digital fighting action. Although the text is obviously in Japanese, the book is filled with pictures from some of the franchise’s legendary artists, such as Akiman, Murata and Fuzichoco....

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Tina Watson

The state of the Knights of the Old Republic remake is still not certain

As of now, Saber Interactive has officiallyparted ways with parent company Embracer Group. The question that’s going to be on a lot of people’s lips is: why are you so handsome? No, I mean…”is the remake ofKnights of the Old Republicstill happening?” That’s a much more sensible question. The truth is, we still can’t say for certain. However, Saber’s Chief Creative Officer, Tim Willits (as noted byEurogamer), recently posted on Twitter/X, confirming that the studio is still working on a number of projects....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Olivia Hansen

These new NES style Switch cart cases let you slot your games in

Nice idea At this point, I have a decent collection of Switch cases. I display them the old fashioned way: by fanning out the original packaging in classic fashion. But every so often I get the itch to show them more elegantly, and I’m tempted by these new goodies from Retro Fighters. Called the “Retro85 Mini NES cartridge Switch game cases” (mouthful!), they’re billed as “individual Switch game card cases stylized as classic NES carts....

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Marco Hansen

This Steam Next Fest demo is unapologetically classic Resident Evil and I cannot wait for its full release

The latest iteration of Steam Next Fest has kicked off, so a torrent of demo downloads has begun. But I think I may have found one of my newest most anticipated games already. It’s calledPhase Zero, and it’s reminiscent of games likeResident Evil 2andResident Evil 3: Nemesisin the best possible ways. And it all starts before you even get to the main menu, with this ominous warning screen that PS1-era survival horror games were known for....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 315 words · Jocelyn Hendricks

Undertale will ‘eventually’ be on Switch

Sans is making sure of it Undertalemade a quick appearance during today’s Nintendo Direct. Details were pretty scarce, but the game will be coming “eventually” to the Switch. Here is the quick trailer to get you hyped.

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 37 words · Jonathan Watson