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Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Sometimes great community blogs come from Dtoid staff, and this piece by Brittany Vincent is no exception. Want to see your own words on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] As unfortunate as it was that I didn’t receive my first PlayStation until two years after its initial release date, the waiting allowed for the scrutiny of certain releases. For example, I had been marking it down to purchasePaRappa the Rapper, and was looking forward to purchasingLunar: Silver Star Story Complete....

Break out your skateboard Following on from apreviously spotted ESRB ratingand a recent Amazon leak, ININ Games has officially revealedWonder Boy Collection.According to Amazon, the classic compendium will launch in June of this year on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at £25, though these details are unconfirmed. Wonder Boy Collectionwill include four titles from the… caveman… knight… genie… shapeshifter’s golden age of gaming. The compendium includes the originalWonder Boy(1986),Wonder Boy in Monster Land(1987),Wonder Boy in Monster World(1991), andMonster World IV(1994)....

The second half of Xbox Game Pass for July brings mostly indie games While the first half of July saw Xbox Game Pass add some bigger titles likeGrand Theft Auto VandExoprimal, the second half update looks to be mostly indie games. Today specifically will see three new games added includingTechtonicaas a day one release. The wholesome photography gameTOEMis also available starting today, which our own Editor-at-Large CJ Andriessen considers a well-crafted jaunt through a charming world....

Now’s the time It’s fitting that Microsoft has big plans for gamescom this year; after all, it is the biggest video game trade show in the world. Xbox boss PhilSpencer said last monththat the platform-holder has just as much in store for gamescom as it did for E3. Now we have an inkling of an idea as to what that entails. Xbox is kicking off the festivities one day early with a full-scale press briefing on August 4 (4 pm CEST/10 am Eastern)....

Flight from mobile ININ has announced that they’ll be bringing YSNET’s absolutely bizarre shoot-’em-up,Air Twister, to consoles and PC. Previously, this was an Apple Arcade exclusive. It will be arriving on Jul 15, 2025. Do you not even have phone? I do, but I rarely play phone. So, typically, when something likeAir Twistergets announced, the news just bounces off of me and gets filed away in the trash compactor of my mind....

Skull fucked I’m sureDarksiders 2isa fine gameif you’ve dry humped behind a Hot Topic counter after a date at Orange Julius, but my favorite thing about its existence is #darksiders2, which Occams blessed us with all those years ago. We can also remember when Handy found137 skulls in 13 screenshotsof the game. A listing for a$40, remasteredDarksiders II(PS4)appeared briefly on Amazon. A representative of Nordic Games, which bought the rights to the series, toldGameSpotthat “the authenticity of the listing is unquestionable,” but didn’t go into detail....

Ready to raid the Spencer Mansion [Update:Zofia’sResident Evil-inspired Elite set is now available for purchase inRainbow Six Siege.The DLC includes a classic Jill Valentine S.T.A.R.S. uniform, a chibi charm, weapon skins, head gear, and animated MVP pose. You can check out the skin on theofficialSiegeTwitter.] Capcom’sResident Evilis certainly making the most of its 25th anniversary celebrations. Not only is the survival horror series getting a brand new title in the form ofResident Evil Village, but it is also making its presence felt in other franchises, such as Ubisoft’sThe Division 2, and soon in its flagship tactical shooterRainbow Six Siege....

When a creative’s imagination is the limit, there’s no shortage of attractive characters in gaming. And when you spend hours, sometimes even dozens or hundreds of them, staring at a protagonist, villain, or trusted companion, it never hurts for them to be easy on the eyes. Sometimes, I find myself a bit head-over-heels for a few of them, reminiscing about the handsome men I’ve met on a few of my journeys....

What a fun idea An email showed up in my inbox with the words “100ft Robot Golf,” and I couldn’t click it soon enough. That’s the title of the next game fromRoundaboutstudio No Goblin. It looks great. This isn’t merely standard golf with giant robotic characters. They canwreck citiesand anything else standing in their way, potentially to the detriment of competitors, just as you’d hope. They can play on the moon, or in a volcano, or wherever the hell they want, really, because they’re robots....

Pre-order DLC is also free for a limited time It’s been a while since we checked in withMobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Maxiboost On. While Bandai Namco’s mech-fighter has been quietly receiving quality-of-life patches to fix minor issues, this week has seen the arrival of some fairly major additions, including a new option allowing one-on-one matches. More importantly however, the pre-order DLC is being made available for free for a limited time....

If you’ve got a few minutes to spare, you might want to give Johan Peitz’sA Super Mario Summarya spin. Whipped up in 48 hours for the23rd Ludum Daregame development event this past weekend, it’s an abbreviated version of Mario’s first “Super” adventure. All 32 levels from the NES original were recreated as single-screen challenges, and your goal is to collect all the coins and reach the top of of the flagpole for a three-star ranking....

Also, PaRappa the Rapper 2! PS2 times were amazing. I mean, that’s the era of that wild Clover clutch Inever stop talking about(Okami,God Hand, etc). So news that the PlayStation 4 would be able toemulate PlayStation 2 games? Sweet! Youcan’t use PS2 discs or PS2 Classics? They’re allupwards of $10? Less sweet. But Sony had all eight newly announced PS2 games playable on PS4 tucked away in a corner at PlayStation Experience....

Congrats, Harmonix! It’s over. The Kickstarter campaign forAmplitude, a revival of Harmonix Music System’s 2003 PlayStation 2 game, has run its course. Afterachievingits $775,000 funding goal with precious little time to spare, the project concluded with a grand total of $844,127. Despite exceeding its initial target by a hefty amount, we shouldn’t forget that sum accounts for “less than half” ofwhat’s necessary to fund the project, according to Harmonix director of publishing John Drake....