Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z review

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  1232 words  |  Trudie Dory

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is an ugly game. Ugly in design, ugly in tone and ugly in content. It's a garish smear of a game that dribbles all over the legacy of one of the all-time great action franchises. Series star Ryu Hayabusa is sidelined here in favour of Yaiba, a boorish clod who loses in battle to Ryu in the opening cut-scene, only to have his dismembered body patched together again as a cyborg. [Read More]

Dark Souls series sales surpass 8.5 million

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  476 words  |  Patria Henriques

The brilliant Dark Souls series has surpassed 8.5m sales, and more than 3.25m of those were on PC. The numbers come from a Japanese presentation by From Software, reported by Famitsu and relayed/made sense of on NeoGAF. According to the numbers: Dark Souls has sold 2,828,000 units worldwide Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition ("with Artorias of the Abyss") has sold 2,765,000 units worldwide Dark Souls 2 has sold 2,311,000 units worldwide Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin has sold 600,000 units worldwide That's a total of 8,504,000 sold The PC-specific number comes from SteamSpy, which may not be entirely accurate. [Read More]

Diablo 2 Resurrected plagued by server issues

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

UPDATE 12/10/21: Blizzard has responded to Eurogamer, acknowledging the issues and thanking players for their patience. "We are aware of and are investigating issues some players have been experiencing in Diablo 2: Resurrected. We have conducted emergency maintenance across all platforms, are closely monitoring server performance, and are making further adjustments and fixes as needed. We thank players for bearing with us as we make this progress, and we want to assure them that we are working hard on both short- and long-term fixes in order to stabilize the Diablo 2: Resurrected experience for all players globally. [Read More]

FIFA 19 The Journey: Champions walkthrough - all Journey rewards, objectives, and story choices explained

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1400 words  |  Patria Henriques

Page 1 of 5 Next page FIFA 19's The Journey: Champions is the third and final instalment in the Alex Hunter-focused story that started a whole three years ago. In keeping with last year's positive changes though, you'll also be guiding Alex's half-sister Kim and long-time friend Danny to respective glory, too. In this FIFA 19 The Journey: Champions walkthrough then, we'll guide you through every step of this year's story mode, from the first kick-off to the very final whistle. [Read More]

Hitman Absolution and Blood Money remastered for PS4, Xbox One

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  190 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Hitman classics Blood Money and Absolution will be re-released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next week, as part of a new Hitman HD Enhanced Collection. The two games will offer 4K resolution, 60FPS and other tweaks in order to make the ageing stealthathons look as shiny as possible for the new year. ☑️ 4K ☑️ 60 FPS ☑️ Improved Lighting ☑️ Updated Controls ☑️ Blood Money + Absolution HITMAN HD Enhanced Collection January 11th, 2019. [Read More]

Lego Super Mario has started crying out for Luigi

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  383 words  |  Patria Henriques

Lego's electronic Super Mario toy has started calling out for his brother, an owner has noticed. Following a firmware update this week, Lego Super Mario now cries out for Luigi after being woken for a nap. Video footage of this phenomenon popped up online thanks to the below post by Twitter user Jay Phoenix - and Lego itself has now commented on the mysterious situation. So, was fiddling about with LEGO Mario for the first time in ages cos of that new treasure hunt update and pic. [Read More]

Lucah: Born of a Dream review - an underworld memoir that's as brutal as Bayonetta

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  10 minutes  |  1945 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Sterling hack-and-slash combat meets raw, fractured prose in one of gaming's most essential nightmares. Content warning: This review and the game include mention of suicide. Playing Lucah is like being swept along by a great dark river. While broadly a hack-and-slash game, it is always dragging you beyond such labels and into something more lively, tormented and fluid. There may be solid ground beneath your feet but the world appears unfinished, transient, its linework writhing and shivering against a pure black plane, as though unhappy in its own skin. [Read More]

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 benchmarks: good for 4K, great for high-fps 1440p

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  9 minutes  |  1912 words  |  Trudie Dory

The GeForce GTX 1080 was the first Pascal generation Nvidia card to hit the market, offering a significant performance boost over the previous Maxwell era along with a host of new features and technologies. Today, it remains one of the stronger graphics cards for PC gaming at high resolutions, particularly 1440p and 4K, and also does well with high refresh rate monitors and VR. However, the old GPU king does cost more than the GTX 1070 Ti - if you can find either card at retail this long after launch - and the GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti all offer more raw performance. [Read More]

Pokémon Let's Go Meltan quest, and Mystery Box explained - how to catch Meltan and Melmetal in Pokémon Go and Let's Go

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  11 minutes  |  2143 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Pokémon Go's Meltan, and its evolution Melmetal are the only new Pokémon coming to both Go and Let's Go via the new Mystery Box mechanic, and are somewhat unprecedented for the series: a debut of a new, never-before-seen creature outside of the main games or anime. There are two ways to get Meltan. You can get one through the Let's Go, Meltan quest - the toughest we've seen yet in Pokémon Go - as well as from Let's Go on Switch. [Read More]

Pokémon Smile gets first ever content update, nearly 18 months after launch

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  299 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Pokémon Smile, the augmented reality smartphone app designed to encourage children to brush their teeth, has just received its first ever content update, almost 18 months after its initial launch back in June last year. Pokémon Smile, if you're unfamiliar, tasks users with rescuing Pokémon from "cavity causing bacteria" - by brushing their actual teeth with an actual brush - all while wearing a special AR hat. Any Pokémon saved from calamity are popped in a Pokédex, and there's a photo and sticker element for those really into the whole thing. [Read More]