‘We can play a trick on all of them’ Here is an exceptionally good short film based onThe Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Maskand its central antagonist, the Skull Kid. Dreamlike and without spoken dialogue, it relates how Skull Kid came into possession of Majora’s Mask and used it to take vengeance on the town which banished him. Great effects in this, particularly the moon which looks just as creepy in this as it did the first time I saw it in the game....

Building? Raiding? Why not both?Meet Your Makerisa new co-op FPSfromDead by Daylightcreator Behaviour Interactive that’ll test your creativity and survivability. As the protector of the Chimera, “a living experiment created as a last resort to save life on Earth,” you’ll construct dastardly bases with enough traps and freaky henchmen to keep the trespassers at bay. On the flip side, you’ll also infiltrate other players’ outposts — potentially with a friend in online co-op — in hopes of snatching genetic material....

It’s becoming all too common for gamers to hold irrational grudges against videogames they haven’t played yet and take out their frustrations on Metacritic or Amazon. Games such asPortal 2andModern Warfare 3have been victims in the past, as gamers on message boards orchestrate a mass “bombing” to voice their wrath. Mass Effect 3is the latest victim of this unusual phenomenon, with user reviews tearing it to shreds as soon as the professional critic scores went live last night....

There’s more single-player content on the way The first of four planned add-ons forMetro: Last Lightdrops on Tuesday, July 16 for Xbox Live, Steam, and PlayStation Network in North America. European PSN and everywhere else will get theFaction Pack($4.99 / £3.99) a day later. This DLC is centered around three single-player missions, each of which puts you in the shoes of different character. Should you want more out ofLast Light, expect to play as a Redline sniper infiltrating a Reich Outpost, a Reich “Heavy,” and a Polis Ranger in training....

Beautiful bioluminescence Imagine the exploratory experience ofJourney,the first-person puzzle solving ofMyst, and the look of the world ofAvatar, all mixed together in one new game. That’s how Storm in a Teacup’s Executive Producer, Alberto Belli, describes their upcoming title,Nero. They call it a visual novel, though it’s nothing like the Japanese text-based titles you might imagine from that label. What I saw ofNerowas dark and magical, lit only by bioluminescent plants and creatures....

Remember Ninja Theory? It’s the studio responsible for the PS3-exclusiveHeavenly Sword— a third-person title in the vein ofGod of Warstarring a scantily clad and somewhat clever female lead. There were plans for a trilogy — in fact, it wassaid in 2007 that the second game was already written— but the developed dumped it in favor of another project. That project may have been revealed in the latest issue of gaming magazineGame Informer....

Slowly but surely I won’t claim to know what the future holds for virtual reality as a whole, but the cost of entry is becoming less of an obstacle, companies like Oculus, Valve, and Sony are still pushing forward, and every day more people are finding out just how transformative this tech can be in the right hands. What I can say is this: 2017 gave us some of the best VR games to date....

Don’t party too hard while on pretendtowanna, sometimes you do things you don’t wanna! While Lyle continues to celebrate the death of Thoth,here’s what’s been happening in video games this past week that are featured in this episode: In this bold new world of Earth 325-b without any knowledge or god of knowledge, people have been reborn into the world as blank slates. Completely clueless to their surroundings, who they once were, or what they were even doing the second Thoth was murdered by Lyle....

Horror game publisherFeardemic has revealedthat the 2D psychological horror adventure gameAfterdreamwill also be coming to consoles.Afterdreamwill be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S sometime this year. The spooky title is in development by sole developer Jesse Makkonen. Makkonen is well known for his other 2D scary titlesHeal,Distraint, andDistraint2.Afterdreamis also coming toPC via Steam, through publisher Gamera Games. Explore lucid dreams with a spooky camera Visually,Afterdreamlooks great, with eerily creepy 2D stylized pixel art....

Recent fan feedback taken into account Rainbow Six Siegewill arrive on June 04, 2025 on the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, Ubisoft announced today. In recentSiege-related news, the publisher has been hard at work combing through recent feedback regarding the alpha test, and they’ve already begun to implement a number of changes. Some aspects of the game were re-balanced, and for the most part, they look pretty good. I enjoyed my time with the alpha even before these enhancements, so I’m looking forward to trying out the full version later this year....

Coming in the fall update Conformity is a tricky thing when it comes to competition. Every basketball court is the same perfect rectangle with a 10-foot hoop. Every football field is 100 yards long. Conversely, baseball fields have their own unique outfield shapes; the one in Houston used to havea hill and a flagpoleright in the field of play in centerfield. Even though soccer — which has a standardized pitch size — isRocket League‘s closest traditional sport analog, developer Psyonix has spent nearly two years with the mindset that the game did not necessarily need uniform arenas....

Kenichiro Takaki continues to wrap the world in happy boobs Once upon a time, XSEED seemed pretty cagey about publishing theSenran Kaguragames. Nowadays the plucky localization studio can’t seem to bring the danged things over fast enough. Yes, you probably read the headline where I typedSenran Kagura 2: Deep Crimsonis on its way to North America and Europe this summer. But the boss says I have to write it down here too....

Oooh, pretty. Not quite what you might expect for aSaGa-branded handheld, Square-Enix is packing this beauty withSaGa 2: Goddess of Destinyfor its Japanese release. The matte black finish and glossySaGalogo are accompanied by a rather magical-looking circular design, which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the franchise by listing all the games in the series up until this one. The limited edition bundle includes the sexy DSi above along with a copy of the game, and will run you 24,880 Yen, or about $265....