They still have plenty of time to tweak it Let’s do a quick recap onBloodstained: Ritual of the Night‘s development process. Back in 2015, former Konami developer Koji Igarashi managed to scrape up $5.5 million in funding, Inafune style, with a “stick it to the man” Kickstarter campaign. Originally it was set to debut on every platform under the sun with every DLC stretch goal at once, but the Wii U version was scrapped in favor of the Switch, and the team shifted to a “we’ll get the extra content out later” approach....

Moment of truth The most successful videogame Kickstarter in history is about to land in the hands of those who made it happen this coming week. The first part of Double Fine’sBroken Agewill become available for backers on Tuesday, January 14. Backers received notification of the impending release shortly before Christmas, while the first public acknowledgement of the date came from Tim Schafervia Twitterlate last week. I’ve long had concerns that the success of the Double Fine Adventure campaign could have serious repercussions for the “Kickstarter Spring” we’ve been experiencing in independent game development....

As successful assome of Capcom’s recent blockbustersmight’ve been, the same cannot be said about all of its titles. Notably, three legacy Capcom titles –Dark Void,Dark Void Zero, andFlock!– will be taken off sale on Steam, though no reasoning has been provided as to why. Now, nobody is saying thatDark Voidis a must-play classic from the late aughts, but it’s still sad to see it go the way of the dodo. Notably, Capcom has announced on each of the three games’ respective Steam pages that it will be “discontinuing digital sales” of these titles on May 8, 17:30 PDT....

Sapkowski’s satisfied Andrzej Sapkowski is the creator ofThe Witcher— one of the most famous fantasy franchises in recent memory — but he’s not obscenely wealthy because of it. While Sapkowski dreamed upThe Witcher, it’s CD Projekt Red’s video games that brought it to widespread prominence. Sapkowski gave CD Projekt Red the rights to make games, but not under a royalties contract. He had such little faith in the medium thathe demanded a lump sum payment up frontrather than a long-running percentage share based on sales....

Treyarch’sGarrett Younghas revealedhow his team check out the latest release demos, and has confessed thatThe Bourne Conspiracyleft him feeling a little flat. “TheBournegame… we did download the demo, we did look at it, like we do anything that’s new and coming out,” explained Young.“Turokwe played and other things that are new, we playedGTAalthough that’s not really in our space. But … yeah … not super impressed with [Bourne] … it’s always tough though when you make a game and you don’t have the lead character from the movie....

DDR V….alive?! Man alive, there are men alive in here! With the nostalgic references out of the way, now it’s time to get toreallynostalgic withDance Dance Revolution. Announced this morning by the officialDDRTwitter account,Dance Dance Revolution Vis coming to PC, based off of the latest iteration of the arcade machine. Currently it’s in open alpha formand contains 15 songs, there’s just one catch: you need to go through Konami’s Japanese site and register a Konami ID, if you don’t have one already....

If you’re wondering whether your PC is powerful enough to take part in theDelta Force: Hawk Opsalpha test, we’ve listed its minimum and recommended system requirements for you. Delta Force: Hawk Opsis the latestfree-to-play gamein the franchise that’s having anAlpha testright now that started on July 13, 2025. Delta Force: Hawk Ops minimum system requirements Here are the minimum specs you must have to play the game at 1080p30fps:...

It’s the first new class in the world ofDiabloin nine years The highlight of the recentDiabloDeveloper Update was certainly the reveal ofDiablo 4Season of the Malignant.However,Diablo Immortalalso got some big news with the unveiling of a brand new class.The Blood Knight is the first new class in the entireDiablofranchise since the release ofDiablo III‘s Crusader in 2014. Diablo Immortalcertainly isn’t for everyone. Butdespite launching with an extremely predatory monetization system, the mobile-focused action-RPG still went on tomake over $500 million in just one year....

Rock the dragon… Bandai Namco has finally announced a western release date for upcoming action-RPGDragon Ball Z Kakarot.The new game, based on the legendary anime series, will arrive on PS4, PC and Xbox One January 17. A new trailer, which debuted at TGS just yesterday, gives us a glimpse of the action, while also revealing that the Buu Saga will be included as part ofKakarot’snarrative. The trailer ends with a look at the game’s Collector’s Edition, which includes steelbook casing, a hardcover art book and a colourful 8×8 inch statue....

UEFA Dreamchasers Team 2 cards will be available soon inEA FC 25Ultimate Team, and you can find a major crux of the new additions in different packs. The second week will be a direct continuation of the first, and it will feature special cards of current superstars, former Icons, and Heroes. While most of the cards will be added to packs, a few of them will be released via SBCs and objectives....

Space is getting a little bit smaller Everyone’s favourite spreadsheet simulatorEVE Onlinemight not be everyone’s favourite anymore, according to graphs made byEVEplayer Jestertrek. The graphs show that the amount of people concurrently playing the game has recently hit its lowest point since 2008, with only just over 21,000 players being logged in at any one time. That’s quite a considerable drop since the highest recorded month of January 2011, where there were roughly 36,000....

Anime is complicated [Ricky Namara attempts to explain the overarching story of BlazBlue. Set aside some time, get your reading glasses, and rev up those Drive buttons. It’s a long and sordid story about the Azure. ~Marcel] Ah,BlazBlue. Or “BraveBlue” if you’re from Japan. Or if you’re one of those annoying people who needed to be super accurate about everything, “boo-ray-boo-roo.” Bloo approves. When it first broke into the scene in 2008 as a spiritual successor to the then-defunctGuilty Gearseries,BlazBluecarries the grand tradition of its predecessor by rebelling against all of the stereotypes that are fighting games of its ilk....

I bet money Todd will do the ‘and it’s available right now!’ shtick again Nearly 3 years later and it would appearFallout Shelteris finally making its way to the PlayStation 4. This news comes from a leaked trophy list for the game that has shown up onExophase, a website that lets you track your PSN, Xbox, Steam, Origin, and Blizzard activity (including trophies and achievements). Notably, if this leak is real,Fallout Shelteralso appears to include a platinum trophy — which I imagine is great news for all you hardcore trophy hunters out there....