Gaming

These days, it seems like every protagonist is edgy and serious–with maybe the exception of cartoon mascots–across movies, games, TV, and wherever else you can imagine. Leave it to the Like a Dragon game series, which is essentially a playable Japanese-crime soap opera when you get down to it, to rethink that idea. Ichiban Kasuga is a refreshing, powerful antithesis …

2024 is almost over. In the final throes of what has been a terrible year for the games industry and the media that covers it, but a good one in terms of the number of quality games that were released, we can finally look back at some raw data about our favourite hobby. Well, at least as far as Steam …

Image: Marvel Studios There are only two episodes left in Marvel’s animated anthology series What If…?, and one of the multiverse’s most disgruntled employees is finally getting reprimanded by upper management. In the third-to-last episode of the series, Uatu, better known as The Watcher, was visited by three other Watchers—The Eminence, The Incarnate, and The Executioner—to answer for his multiversal …

2024 was a bit of a bumpy road for PlayStation. Things started out well with the surprise success of Helldivers 2, the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and the slick action duo of Stellar Blade and Black Myth: Wukong. But things took a downward turn in the summer thanks to Concord’s (failure to) launch. The doomed hero shooter and …

Spoilers for Final Fantasy VII [1997], Remake, and Rebirth. Even with far more barriers in the way, the desperation began almost as soon as the original game was on shelves and the first person saw Aerith die in Final Fantasy VII. The singular question haunted AOL chat rooms, usenet, and game magazine mailboxes for years: Can we bring her back? …

I first played Another Crab’s Treasure on the side of the street behind the Day of the Devs event in LA earlier this year, the sun glaring on a laptop screen, quickly running out of power. Next to me sat Nick, the studio head, who watched patiently as a hungover blob attempted to navigate his team’s game. He muttered “interesting” …

Oh, look, another Night Dive Studios joint! This time around, the team remastered a beloved cult classic from the PS2 era: The Thing. The third-person shooter might not have had the best combat around, but it made up for it with great atmosphere and a unique AI/squad system that forced you to be careful around your NPC friends lest they …

With 2025 and the New Year quickly approaching, now is the time to score some last-minute holiday deals. Here are the best deals for Saturday, December 28. Persona 5 Royal for $14.88 Persona 5 Royal – Nintendo Switch (Digital) 0 Today, Walmart has digital Nintendo Switch copies of Persona 5 Royal available on sale for only $14.88. Acting as the …

As surprising as it was to see Nintendo drop an uncharacteristically creepy teaser earlier this year about a masked man known as “Emio,” few could have expected it would be related to a brand-new entry in the company’s long-dormant Famicom Detective Club series. What’s less surprising is just how riveting the game turned out to be, an expertly paced thriller …

In this week’s TouchArcade Show we’re all over the map, as usual. We kick things off with my experience going on the Polar Express train ride thing, as well as my experience rewatching the Polar Express movie for the first time in 20 years. We then dip into some Apple Vision Pro discussion, and Eli tips me off on a …