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Remember those Xbox 360/PS3-era Transformers games? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could easily buy and play those in 2023 on modern platforms? I think so. And so does Hasbro. But according to the toy company behind the popular transforming robot franchise, Activision has apparently lost the games and doesn’t know where they’re stored. The Team Behind Tetris On The …

On July 31, 2023, Game Boy turns 34 in North America. Nintendo’s first-ever handheld console came stateside in 1989 and dominated the portable gaming market for nine years until the release of its successor, Game Boy Color, in 1998. The humble 2.6-inch black-and-white display was a generation’s portal into on-the-go gaming, introducing the world to now-legendary Nintendo franchises like Pokemon, …

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is headed to more platforms. During publisher Electronic Arts’ earnings briefing, the company announced that developer Respawn is now in the “early stages” of bringing the Star Wars game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Jedi: Survivor launched at the end of April this year for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The game enjoyed …

Roto Force (Free) from developer Anton Klinger aka Accidentally Awesome Games and PID Games is a game I’ve had installed since it launched, but I didn’t actually play it until about a week later. I was impressed with it right from the get go, but I ended up forgetting about it until a friend of mine mentioned EDGE magazine saying …

It must feel bittersweet to be an ARPG fan right now. On the one hand, we have such colossal releases like Diablo 4 in our hands, while existing games continue to grow and expand, to say nothing of upcoming, highly-anticipated sequels like Path of Exile 2. But it’s also a time marred by all sorts of problems, most recently Diablo …

Screenshot: VG Games / West Connection Limited / Kotaku The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival—a Switch-exclusive budget game that many called a knockoff of Sony’s The Last of Us—has been removed from the Nintendo eShop. Meanwhile, Sony has started removing the game’s trailers from YouTube. If You Want To Get The Most Out of Mario Strikers: Battle League Make Some …

FromSoftware composer Yuka Kitamura has left the company and is now pursuing freelance work. She’s worked on games such Dark Souls III, Bloodborne, and Shadows Die Twice. Over on X (formerly known as Twitter), Kitamura said, “Thank you all for your continued support. Today I have an announcement to make. I have decided to leave FromSoftware, the company I worked …

A new update has gone live in Destiny 2, and with only a few days until the seasonal Solstice event ends, this patch is going to make navigating the European Aerial Zone a little easier. While the patch notes aren’t too extensive, the highlight here is that Sparrows have been enabled in the Bonfire Bash activity. That’s right: You’ll be …

If there’s one thing fans and non-fans of FromSoftware agree on, it’s that the studio’s games contain some stellar music. Even as early as the Dark Souls series, through Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Bloodborne all the way to Elden Ring you’d be hard pressed to find a single game without its own list of iconic tracks. But while the music …

Photo: Mike Pont / Contributor (Getty Images) After nearly 15 years, feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s non-profit organization Feminist Frequency will cease operations in early 2024. The news was delivered via official press release with Sarkeesian citing endless burnout and exhaustion from growing the site over the years, which she says has proven unsustainable. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing …