Quick Links Silent Hill 2is a very isolated game. While it exists within the grander tale of the Silent Hill series, it stands mostly independent of every other entry. Silent Hill 2 is squarely James' story, as well as the brief glimpses he gets into the lives of others. And then Maria appears. Maria is core to every feeling and experience that James goes through in Silent Hill 2, yet who she is as a person is never really explored, only alluded to....

There’s been a lot of debate aroundAstro Bot’suse ofso many PlayStation mascots, from how authentic this love-in is to how odd it is to see aSonyproduct celebrate other beloved Sony products that Sony is no longer producing. My colleagues James Troughton and Jade King nailed the issue before and after launch -it feels like a graveyard of gamesthat should be given a new chance at life, andAstro Bot has the potential to be morethan a walking commercial when the game plays so dang good....

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Summary In one of the biggest shake-ups thatMagic: The Gathering’sCommander format has ever seen,the Commander Rules Committee has announced that several cards have now been banned. These include Jeweled Lotus; Mana Crypt; Nadu, Winged Wisdom; and most controversially of all, Dockside Extortionist. Wizards of the Coast revealed this news in an official blog post, as did the Commander Rules Committeevia its own website. This is the first time in quite a while that the CRC has banned cards from the Commander format, last taking place way back in 2021 when Golos, Tireless Pilgrim was banned....

Summary Since their announcement in 2022,Remedyhas been very forthcoming about the Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes. In April last year, the team said that the remakes had reachedthe proof-of-concept stage, in October it said that the game had reached the “production readiness stage”, and in April 2024, it confirmed the game would beentering full production in Q2, which it did. Now, as part of a recent investor call, the Finnish studio gave another small update on the games, saying they were “making good progress”....

Summary Monolith’s Wonder Womangame has been MIA for quite some time now. Following its first reveal at the Game Awards way back in 2021,we’ve had nothing but radio silence from Monolith, and nothing but bad news from less official channels. It was suggested earlier this year thatdevelopment had become “troubled” at the studio, and the only official news we have about the gameis that it isn’t a live service title....

Summary It isn’t even October yet and the spooky decor is already out and about. Gaming accessory specialist PDP is helping you reach you attain your creepy potential with plenty of time to spare via a few new Boo-themed accessories for yourNintendo Switch. With a new controller and matching Switch carry case, you’re able to be all set for Halloween season right now. First up is the Rematch Glow Wireless Controller: Boo Hoo, a delightfully adorable wireless controller that features a shy little Boo on the front and a sleek white, grey, and red color scheme....

Summary In a recent interview, theLike a Dragonseries director talked about how middle-aged dudes are their target audience because they are also middle-aged dudes. Correctly, they say this is one of the series’ selling points because these characters are relatable. But even though the games have “had a large increase in new fans, including women”, the studio doesn’t “plan to do anything like deliberately changing conversation topics in order to cater to new fans”....

ThePokemon lore leakshave shaken the PokeWorld to its very core. Who knew that all this time, the deviants writing Ash/Lucario love stories on AO3 hadn’t been far off from whatGame Freakhad been writing this entire time? From tales ofPokemon/human relationsto epic sagas of revenge, these fablesborrow liberally from real world mythologiesto tell twisted tales ofTyphlosion tricksand Slakoth sadness. I was worried that the storiesmight have ruined some of my favourite Pokemonand, as TheGamer’s resident Cyndaquil stan, that I wouldn’t feel the same about my beloved starter knowing that Game Freakplanned this darker lore all along....

Summary PokemondeveloperGame Freakhas released a statement regarding a recent data breach that has caused a bunch of unannounced projects and development files to be leaked. The last few years have been a bit of arough time for developers as a whole thanks to seemingly endless job losses and crunch, but a new problem has recently been rearing its head - data breaches. Back in 2022,Rockstar was hit with a massive hack that revealed the first footage of GTA 6, whileInsomniac Games had its whole pipeline unearthed late last year thanks to a similarly massive data breach....

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Summary The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isa pretty buggy game when you really think about it, and it remains fairly buggy to this day. Thankfully for Bethesda, it helped that many of them were more hilarious and fun to encounter rather than game breaking. I’m sure we’ve all been launched into the air by a Giant, or seen a man swimming through the air. However, as games have focused more on realism, andhigh-profile disasters like Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077have been released to widespread criticism, there’s less forgiveness for immersion breaking bugs than before....

Summary Warhammer 40,000is a pretty big franchise that’s been going on for a long time. That means it has a lot of lore that future products need to take into account, whether they be books, movies, or video games.Space Marine 2has been pretty careful to adhere to the franchise’s established canon, but it looks as though there’s one aspect that developer Saber Interactive firmly disagrees with. When it comes to the scale of certain things in Warhammer, the franchise can be quite inconsistent....