Contest: Win an SNES copy of Fork Parker’s Crunch Out

A real SNES cartridge for your crunch-time enjoyment! Feel the crunch on your SNES with a brand-new copy ofFork Parker’s Crunch Out! Ok, so this one is pretty cool. Three awesome groups —Devolver Digital(awesome publisher),Mega Cat Studios(awesome dev/pub/physical producer), andTake This(awesome charitable organization increasing support for mental health in the game industry) — have teamed up to releaseFork Parker’s Crunch Out, a game mocking the games industry and its relentless cycle of crunch and churn!...

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Nicole Turner

Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 announced as series clears million-seller milestone

I sometimes feel like an idiot sandwich while playing CSD While you may not have heard of it until now, the restaurant simulation seriesCook, Serve, Delicioushas been out there quietly building an empire. The first two cooking games have sold a combined one million units, according to Vertigo Gaming, and now it’s time for the next step:Cook, Serve, Delicious 3. The new game–out first on Steam Early Access in January 2020–is leaning hard into food trucks....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Sarah Kennedy

Don’t let that Beyond Good & Evil 2 art get your hopes up

It wasn’t even from Beyond Good & Evil 2 Yesterday we were treated to what was allegedlya new look for JadeinBeyond Good & Evil 2, which was announced in 2008. Ubisoft toldIGNthat the piece was concept art from the first game, now over a decade old. Beyond Good & Evil‘s Michel Ancel fielded sequel questions during aRayman Legendslivestream, giving the usual vague notions likelast time people got needlessly excited. “Working onRayman Legendswas a nice, early holiday....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Mr. Andrew Nguyen PhD

Episode 4 of The Wolf Among Us will fix this starting May 27

I swear You know the drill by now — here’s a trailer for the new episode ofThe Wolf Among Us, accompanied by a release date. Episode 4:In Sheep’s Clothinglaunches on May 27 for PC and Mac, and on PS3. Xbox 360 gets it a day later on May 28. For those using an iOS device, it drops on May 29. If we wanted to peer into our crystal ball, we could probably predict that this installment will be similar to most of the episodic content that Telltale puts out — generally well-received and leaving its fans craving more....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Brian Jacobson

Every fighting game should take advantage of Sony’s cross-play

Podtoid 418 At the beginning of this year, I did New Year’s Resolution posts for all three of the major console manufacturers, stating what I believed each of them should accomplish this year. So far, it seems only one is following through with what I proposed:Sony. After keeping it in beta for way too long, Sony announced this week that cross-play is now out of beta. This opens up a world of possibilities for gamers and for extending the life of certain games....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Jim Thomas

Evil Dead: The Game turns back time with Army of Darkness DLC

Well helloooo, Mr. Fancy Pants… Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have released the first major DLC update for their multiplayer horror title,Evil Dead: The Game. Now available to download on all platforms, the content drop contains maps, modes, and weaponry for you and your posse’s battle with the spooky Deadite army. Themed after the third mainlineEvil Deadmovie,Army of Darkness, (akaThe Medievil Dead, akaBruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness), the DLC features a much-needed new map, styled after the castle keep from the 1992 horror comedy....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 318 words · Jaclyn Lee

Forecast calls for 100% chance of only one more Sharknado

Will feature Nazis, dinosaurs, knights, and Noah’s Ark April Fools’ … has absolutely nothing to do with this utterly serious news: the forthcomingSharknado 6will close out the landmark series. Sad news for anyone aiming to get their bad movies on TV. For me, trying to rank the five existingSharknadofilms is nearly impossible, primarily because I’ve only seen the first. But this finale sounds bad enough to warrant a viewing. On the eve of such tragic news, really, we wanted to draw your attention to this somber development, and urge you to pick your favoriteSharknadomoment and memorialize it here in our comments, for all of time....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Scott Green

Forza Horizon gets Recaro car pack on New Year’s Day

That van looks suspicious Turn 10 and Microsoft have worked it out so that you may welcome the new year with six new cars forForza Horizonwith their Recaro car pack. In this pack, which launches on Jul 29, 2025, you’ll get a 2012 Cadillac Escalade ESV, a sexy 2012 Logus Exige S, a 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR, a 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R, and the impossible 2012 Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Jennifer Osborne

From NextLust: Use your Mac for your Wii

Straight from sister siteNextLust, here’s some info on using your Mac to pimp out your somewhat limited Wii: Even though the Wii is able to play video files off an SD card through the Wii’s photo channel, the formats it can handle are pretty limited. That’s where Wii Transfer for the Mac comes in. Similar to programs like iSquint which format any video to the iPod spec, Wii Transfer converts your video files into something the Wii can handle....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Brenda Campbell

Gnaw is joining the ranks of the Awesomenauts on PC

A shadowy teaser image for the latestAwesomenautscharacter made the rounds recently, and now we have the full reveal courtesy of Ronimo Games. The newest addition, Gnaw, is a bitey, acid-spitting critter that was trained by his “Cosmic biker pirate masters.” He’ll join the roster on PC for free soon. Beyond that, the game is getting a minor update with some tweaks and fixes later today on Steam. Of all the post-launch characters, I have a feeling Gnaw will best fit my preferred play style....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Julie Armstrong

Grand Theft Auto V charts at number two in Japanese debut

Rockstar’s latest sells over 360,000 copies in Japan during opening week Grand Theft Auto Vis selling like methamphetamine-infused Furbies. The bad man simulator pilfered$800 millionfrom the unwitting masses in its first day on the market, upsetting unbiased cable news broadcasters everywhere, before going on to plunder the world to the tune of$1 billionin just three days. Not even Japan was spared from Rockstar’s malevolent malfeasance. The corruption befell 360,115 PlayStation 3 owners in the the vile title’s opening week, trailing onlyPokemon XandY, which sold 1,866,570 animal cruelty-laden units in the region over the same timespan....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Erika Downs

Grim Fandango and Broken Age are heading to Switch

MANUEL! At alive reading ofGrim Fandango’sscriptlast night, Double Fine announced that the classic adventure game would be coming to the Nintendo Switch soon.Broken Agewill also be heading to the platform, which is good news for fans of that title. I was never big onBroken Age(probably because I backed it on Kickstarter and expected more), but having these games on more platforms means people can be exposed to the brilliance that is Tim Schafer’s writing....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Donna Salinas

Gundam Versus beta launching September 2 in North America and Europe, 94 mobile suits playable

That’s a lot of mobile suits Following up on the announcement forSoutheast Asia, Bandai Namco has announced that the open beta forGundam Versuswill also be happening on the same dates for North America and Europe. It will be available for pre-load starting on the August 29, and will begin on September 2 at 12:00am PDT. Fun times will be had afterwards until September 4 at 12:00am PDT, at which point the beta will stop....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Benjamin Sanchez