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Don’t want to buy a Japanese Xbox 360, or import Cave’supcoming shooter, so you can play it on your TV? And you happen to be loaded and good at making arcade cabinets? Good news for you! Cave haslistedanAkai Katana ShinPCB board for ¥220,000 ($2600). The “PCB individual user version” features a Stage select, includes balance adjustments from the commercial PCB version, and features a higher difficulty setting in addition to the same difficulty level of the commercial version....

It’s finally starting to come together in my head I’m on board withSea of Thieves. I have been for some time now. But there’s still one question hampering my excitement for Rare’s multiplayer pirate adventure: how long will it last? Long-term player progression and motivation has been a concern with this game and today’s video attempts to address some of those points with a look at quests, customization, and factions....

‘I put a stop to that’ Most people who grew up in the ’90s are probably aware of (or lament) the “Attitude Era” of professional wrestling. The short of it? The WWE (known as the WWF at that time) revamped their strategy with a more irreverent and edgy approach, and it completely worked…for them. For every successful Attitude Era there’sa try-hard Poochie, and Nintendo almost fell into that latter trap.Well it did, for a time....

If you visit this site frequently, chances are you’ve heard us name-drop Cartoon Network’s fairly recent masterpieceAdventure Time. The Destructoid staff, in particular one Jonathan Holmes, loves to drawattentionto itwheneverpossible. In addition to being unfailingly clever, aesthetically outrageous, and flat-out hilarious,Adventure Timeis also incredibly gamer-friendly. Creator Pendleton Ward has crafted a show that marries animation with videogame logic in a manner that not even cartoons actuallybasedon games have accomplished. But ifAdventure Timetakes you into the world of the game, another program very near to it on the evening lineup plants you on the couch on the other side of the screen....

REMATCHis live on early access for those who own either the Pro or the Elite Edition, but some players (including myself) have encountered a major issue:they are unable to move their characters. When it happened for the first time, I thought that either my network was dead or my controller had lost connection. Going through Discord, it appeared that I wasn’t the only one who encountered it. Thankfully, the developers have already provided a temporary fix....

First hands-on with the new game from Guerrilla I think there are some limitations to open-world games that not many things outside ofMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painand its holistic systems have managed to get right. It seems like Guerrilla Games’ (Killzone)Horizon Zero Dawnhas the right ideas, though. There are the trappings of open-world RPGs that can grate on me: quests and resources and side quests andenormousmaps filled with little buttons and experience point-based skill progression....

It’s been a little while since the lastBlacklight: Retributiondeveloper diary videowas released. Today, the team is back, and still sounding as excited as ever in a new installment. They discuss not only the technology behind the game, but also the tech inside the world. One of the first things I took away fromthe original teaser videowas how much the style reminded me ofGhost in the Shell. The developers never make any direct statement about influence when they talk about going for a “Neo-Tokyo” look....

Including games like PlanetSide 2 and EverQuest Next “The goal would be to let you pick an item in each game you play. Some of you might say ‘well who cares..I only playPlanetSide 2. How is that a benefit to me?’ My answer is simple — we’ve got a great lineup of games, some of which aren’t announced yet that cater to a lot of players. We have [EverQuest Next] and [EverQuest Next Landmark] coming along with other…....

Check your inbox DICE has been emailing invites to theStar Wars Battlefrontalpha on Origin. Well, more accurately, these are invites toapplyfor the alpha (which can be done here). No guarantees you’ll get in, as “space in the Closed Alpha is very limited and we may not be able to accept all players who apply.” According to an email obtained byPolygon, the alpha’s minimum system requirements are: Those specs won’t be the same whenBattlefrontreleases in November....

It seems likeFall Guyshas been making the rounds lately. I mean, sure, the game has kind of been everywhere since it launched back in 2020. But its collaboration momentum certainly shows no signs of slowing down. So hot on the heels ofFall Guyscoming toFinal Fantasy XIV, we have official confirmation that the upcomingSuper Bomberman R 2will dip its hands into theFall Guyspot as well. These two franchises have certainly enjoyed a good relationship up to this point....

Playing with the Boys Something a little more low-key from the retro fun-fans over at Hamster this week, as the labyrinthineArcade Archiveshas been bolstered with the arrival of Video System’s hard-spikin’Super Volleyballon PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Released to the arcade market in 1989, before receiving home ports on the Sega Mega Drive and the TurboGrafx-16,Super Volleyballis an incredibly typical take on the high-jumping beach sport. Two teams of four players battle it out on a very basic 2D plane, with each team representing one of eight global nations....

Originally just a rumor, Sony has officially confirmed and announced that the next State of Play will be tomorrow, February 12, at 5 pm EST.According to Sony, its first State of Play for 2025 will run for over 40 minutes and showcase a creative and unique selection of exciting games from studios around the world. Length-wise, this puts tomorrow’s State of Play about on par with Sony’s most recentState of Play from Septemberwhich ran just shy of 40 minutes and ended with the reveal ofGhost of Yotei....

Always bet on Clem I guess Telltale wasn’t keen on waiting until next week to show off some ofThe Walking Dead‘sthird season finale. With the episode releasing next Tuesday, now would be the opportune time to reveal anything before players get their hands on the game. Thankfully, this sidesteps being a pure gameplay trailer and talks mostly about the drama that Telltale’s writers tried to concoct. For me, I felt season two ofThe Walking Deadwas a step backward in terms of gameplay and even narrative design, but it definitely featured a lot of intense situations with no clear “correct” answer....