This article contains spoilers for Silent Hill: The Short Message. I’ve never seen as many links to real-world resources, in any work of art in any medium, as there are inSilent Hill: The Short Message. When you boot up the game, there’s a content warning alerting players of the game’s “depictions of suicide, self-harm, abuse, trauma, and bullying that some people may find distressing”, with links to two crisis lifeline websites and a phone number beneath it....

Over the years, my expectations forSkull and Boneshave been as rocky as the Seven Seas, from riding the high waves of hope to feeling moments of despair as those same waves come crashing down on the deck. Hearing about it a few years after Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, we were all eager to have a whole game dedicated to the pirate life. Everyone banded together to take on the seas, expecting ‘Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag’ without the ‘Assassin’s Creed 4’....

Rise of the Roninhas the roughest start to a game I’ve seen in a very long time. In my preview, I said it was “unsteady” and “underwhelming”, and at the time, I was strapping myself in for a massive slog getting the thing done for review. The problem was that for the preview, we were only allowed to talk about the first 100-120 minutes of the game, up to a specific mission....

Summary Supergiant Gameshas askedHades 2fans and content creators not to share content that has been datamined from the Technical Test, as it was accidentally left in the files. We’ve known for some time now thatHades 2 was going to release in Early Access at some point in 2024, but no one expected it to come bursting out of the shadows like it suddenly has. Just a few days ago out of nowhere,Supergiant Games revealed that a Technical Test for Hades 2was going live,giving players a great first glimpse at what the sequel is all about....

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis one of the most creative titles we’ve ever seen, giving players a handful of inventive tools and a physics-based open world to mess around in. Ultrahand is arguably the game’s most defining feature, creative enough toearn the game an award during TheGamer Aces last yearat the very least, though there were a lot of pains during development to get it implemented correctly....

Most of the time,Digimon Card GameEX sets are a bit underwhelming. They usually include cards that only hardcore fans of the series will recognize with different gameplay mechanics that try to spice up the game without shifting the meta too much. EX05 Animal Colosseum is the exception. This set revitalized the MetalGarurumon (X Antibody) deck with new trash-based effects, introduced a Leviamon card that can play tokens on your opponent’s battle area and destroy them at the same time to hinder your opponent, and a devastating card in the form of an Egyptian deity that required Bandai to restrict the card before it was even released in the English market....

Akira Toriyama was a legendary artist in the world of anime and manga whose whimsical designs captured the imaginations of people all over the globe. His contributions to video games have been just as significant, with some of the medium’s most beloved series having Toriyama’s unmistakable touch of magic across their artwork. From seminal JRPGs to cult favourite fighting games, Akira Toriyama’s impact on video games – particularly in his preferred realm of character designs – runs much deeper than you may originally expect....

Helldivers 2lets players use Stratagems to even the odds against swarms of Terminids and clusters of Automatons. Requesting new gear, calling in orbital strikes, and replacing dead teammates are all important to winning the Galactic War. While you start out with only the most basic Stratagems available, upgrading your ship will unlock more powerful effects that let you tailor your tactics to the mission at hand. It takes a long time to unlock everything, since you’ll need to level up and save your Requisition Slips for big purchases....

Summary It’s always sad to see a well-liked game completely shut down, especially when it was still being enjoyed by a handful of dedicated fans. That’s exactly what happened with The Crew, an open world racing game that was released all the way back in 2015. Being a completely online title, once developerUbisoftpulled the plug on the game’s servers at the end of last month, it became completely unplayable for all owners....

Summary Despite the stakes and drama,Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthis also filled with some of the funniest moments in gaming. It’s on par with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth in its mixture of tear-jerking moments and laugh-out-loud jokes. The funny moments below show how humor is integrated into the world. These aren’t inane and absurd moments that don’t fit into the game’s reality; this is how the world is. It reminds us of the best Terry Gilliam movies in how they always manage to dive into serious themes while fully embracing the absurdity of their worlds and never neglecting funny character-building moments....

Helldivers 2, while primarily designed for cooperative multiplayer, can be also be played alone if you’re not in the mood to drop with friends. While the game is not strictly speaking intended to be played this way, there are stillcertain tacticsyou can employ that will ensure the success of your mission and, hopefully, a long career after it. These are some tips that can help you along that path. FromStrategemsand strategies, to loadouts and luck, planning ahead, picking your battles, and a little quick thinking will get you a long way in the harsh universe of Helldivers....

A newTwisted Metalproject has reportedly been cancelled as part oftoday’s layoffs across Sony Interactive Entertainment. The Twisted Metal game, which was said to be a live service, was rumoured to be in developed at Firesprite, aSony-owned studio that is affected by today’s layoffs. The news comes fromBloombergreporter Jason Schreier and hasn’t been confirmed by PlayStation at the time of writing. However, it would be in line with the confirmed news of the layoffs....

My mother’s favourite movie is Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla from 1998. I resent her for a lot of reasons, but that one is definitely up there. She lives for its awful dialogue, dated special effects, and terrible characters. I love her, but I simply can’t forgive such a travesty. But for all these flaws, many of the 1998 movie’s qualities can be found in modern renditions of the beloved kaiju, especially in Legendary’s increasingly ambitious Monsterverse....