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Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann has warned in a new interview that you should not expect The Last of Us 3 to be a surefire bet that actually gets made in the future. Despite the open-ended conclusion of the second game and his claim there’s “probably one more chapter to the story”, Druckmann suggests there aren’t any guarantees around a third game. The comment comes from a new interview with Variety discussing HBO’s second season of its TV adaptation of The Last of Us. Towards the end of the piece, Druckmann is asked about The Last of Us 3. He responds: “I was…
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the superhero action game featuring Black Panther and Captain America, has been an elusive game since its initial reveal, but thanks to a loose-lipped voice actor, it seems we now know when it’s due out. In an interview with The Direct, voice actor Khary Payton — who plays Black Panther in the game — says the game is “still planning on 2025” for launch, narrowing that down to “a Christmas situation”. First revealed in 2022 without a title, the game got its first proper unveiling at last year’s GDC. As the name suggests, the game has a historic…
It feels like there’s not really been much hype around Age of Mythology: Retold over the past however many months, even despite the fact we really like the game itself, but perhaps its new expansion will help to change all that. Yes, Age of Mythology: Retold – Immortal Pillars is now available across Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, serving as the game’s first expansion that’s both included in the Premium Edition and available separately for £14.99 / $17.99. In Immortal Pillars, you’ll be able to experience a new “legendary journey” featuring “a new pantheon of gods, legendary myth units, and awe-inspiring…
Metacritic has today revealed its 15th annual game publisher rankings, giving us an updated look at how the biggest publishers of 2024 performed based on critic reviews. Nintendo wound up in 22nd place out of the 37 publishers in this year’s list which, considering it landed in sixth place last time, is quite the tumble. The Big N took home an average Metascore of 76 on its 13 releases in 2024, with no “Great” games (Metascore of 90 or higher) to its name. SEGA came out on top in the latest list, with an average Metascore of 82.9 across a whopping 29…
Sigh… We really don’t like reporting on this kind of stuff, but alas, it’s our duty to you, our dear readers, to know what you’re getting yourself into. Judging from images of the box art online, it looks like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 will require a mandatory download on the Nintendo Switch. Now, it’s not known at this stage exactly what kind of download will be needed, but given that it’s seemingly a requirement and not an option, we’re guessing that the base game simply doesn’t fit on a standard Switch cartridge. We’ve reached out to Activision for some more…
Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has implemented a range of tariffs on goods being imported into the country. The introductions, which came into effect yesterday, include a 25% tariff on products from Mexico and a 20% tariff on goods from China (an additional 10% on what was initially implemented on 4th February), both of which have the potential to result in a price hike for consoles and accessories and, according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, could bring about the death of select physical game sales. Despite many companies, including Nintendo, Apple and Microsoft, starting to shift their production out…
When Blaze updated its Evercade handheld back in 2022, one of the key features it added to the EXP version was a TATE button which allowed users to experience vertically-oriented arcade games the way they were supposed to be played. As we noted in our review, while this was a cool feature to have—especially when there are so many games in the Evercade library which support it—holding the system vertically isn’t ideal, as it tends to feel a bit top-heavy and there’s not enough room to grip it properly. It seems that Blaze is aware of this, as it recently launched a TATE grip for…
We’ve seen quite a few fun (and unofficial) ROM hacks which have tinkered with famous Nintendo franchises, but a new effort has just been announced which looks very interesting indeed. DogPond4 has just confirmed that they’re working on a new ROM hack which adds Mario and Luigi to the Pokémon series, using the GBA remakes as the base. Pokémon Mario Red & Luigi Green (genius, right?) will replace all 151 Gen 1 Pokémon with characters from the Super Mario universe, “along with plenty of surprises,” according to the developer. While you’re waiting for this one to drop, why not check out our list of the best…
The Game Boy Color had no shortage of cute and colourful platformers, thanks to games like Shantae, Rayman, Croc, and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. And that number has only grown in recent years, thanks to the emergence of the homebrew scene that has been busy creating new and exciting experiences for the beloved piece of hardware. A good example of this is the adorable new platformer Snout, from Saan — a small development studio based in Salamanca, Spain comprised of the first-time Game Boy developer Kamil Korolczuk and Weiwei Leung (who you may remember from her last project Aaling the Ghost). It is a new Game…
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Namco’s ridiculously popular and influential arcade game Pac-Man. So, to celebrate this important milestone, the company has revealed a year-long celebration of the series, to take place throughout 2025 and into early 2026, which spans video games, live events, and more (h/t: Gamespot). To kick off the celebrations, the official Pac-Man YouTube channel released a new visually-impressive video yesterday, called PAC-MAN: 45 Years of ImPACt, which was created in Unreal Engine. This 3D-generated video was directed by Miles Cable of Bodega Virtual and produced by LEFT and shows various characters playing a bunch of different Pac-Man iterations from…