“She breasted boobily down the stairs” Marvelous’Senran Kagurahas always been a shameful pleasure of mine, and that shame comes to a head with the latest releaseSenran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. This multiplayer water gun shooter may seem likeSplatoonwith waifus, but this Japanese trailer for the game shows us whatPeach Beach Splashhas to offer beyond waifu physics. Various weapon types, stat boosts, and then, uh, a very distressing minigame where you poke a girl until she cries....

I’m so conflicted The Nosulus Rift is real. Much to my chagrin, the Nosulus Rift is real. Ubisoft hoodwinked me into signing a waiver and strapping this abomination to my face. The things I do for this job. Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be games journalists. Well aware that I was in for an unpleasant experience, we started the demo. “Okay, let’s get it out of the way....

Via Twitter, Square Enix has announced that the latest in theSaGaseries,SaGa: Emerald Beyond, will launch on Jul 20, 2025. It’s coming to Switch, PS4, PS5, Steam, iOS, and Android. While a newSaGaentry was talked aboutas far back as 2021,SaGa: Emerald Beyondwas only officially announced in theSeptember 2023 Nintendo Direct. It’s the latest from the long-running series, dating back to 1989 withMakai Toushi SaGaorThe Final Fantasy Legend. You don’t have to have been following the series since then, as this one is supposedly standalone....

Starts on November 9, over a week before release As is the case with most of EA’s big games,Star Wars Battlefront II(read: notStar Wars: Battlefront 2, that old game that is still better than most recentBattlefrontentries) will be available in early access form before launch. Available across the confusingly named EA (console) and Origin (PC) Access fronts, it’ll drop on November 9, eight days before its November 17 release. We don’t know yet what that trial will entail, but previously the publisher locked solo progress while offering unfettered multiplayer....

Savings don’t stop Today’s daily deals in theSteam salejust hit, and there’s sort of an overarching spooky theme to it (if you look really hard and don’t think about it too much). Titles likeOutlast,Metro: Last Light, andAlan Wakeare all on discount, and all are sure to keep you tensed and on the edge of your seat. In the same vein,Game Dev Tycoonis also on sale, and the life of a game developer might be scarier than anything found in those other three games....

Four months of news, in-game events, and demos [Update: The first streaming events have started appearing on theSummer Game Fest schedule. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X gameplay showcase episode ofInside Xboxis up first on May 7 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific, and then there’s going to be a “surprise game reveal” hosted by Geoff Keighley on May 12 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific. That’s it for May, at least for now. The schedule will be updated “on a rolling basis as publishers announce events,” so what’s listed here today is just a fraction of the eventual lineup....

Kunio-kun sporting spin-off returns It’s time to combine brawlin’ and… ballin’… erm… with this week’s Arcade Archives release, as retro publisher Hamster bringsKunio-kunsporting spin-offSuper Dodge Ballto Nintendo Switch. Released by Technos Japan in 1987,Super Dodge Ballwas the first sequel to street brawlerNekketsu KÅha Kunio-kun(Renegade), and sees the hot-blooded high-school kid buddy up with some friends, literally half his size, for an inter-school dodge ball tournament – a natural career progression from fighting local biker gangs down by the docks....

Dizzy will live again! The retro console re-release craze isn’t stopping anytime soon. With Nintendo having found immense success with both the NES and SNES Classic, Sony doing…something with the PlayStation Classic, and Sega primed to give us a great experience withthe Genesis Mini, what else is there left to be mined? Well, the Commodore 64, I suppose. Coming from Koch Media and Retro Games (notable for creating theCommodore 64 Minia few years back), “The C64” will be a full sized re-release of the classic console with all kinds of modern enhancements....

Final lineup has 42 games The final 12 games for Sega Genesis Mini have been announced and there are a few surprises.Darius, a hardcore shmup masterpiece, will be included alongside the exceptionally rare Tetris (that reportedlysold for $1 million some time back). This collection of games could honestly put the SNES Mini to shame and I’m surprised by that. Here are the final games that will be included: The Sega Genesis Mini will be hitting stores on June 20, 2025, for an MSRP of $79....

For that Fight Money burning a hole in your pocket Capcom’sStreet Fighter Vcontinues its primary focus on draining Fight Money from your digital wallet, withmode updates and new crossover content, headed to the game next week. From June 25, players will be able to purchase three new costumes. The first sees Rashid transformed intoMega Man’sAir Man, whilst the other two are based on hack ‘n’ slash seriesDevil May Cry. These include a Dante outfit for Ken, which can be purchased outright, and a Gloria outfit for Laura, which must be “earned” through Extra Battle mode, where players plonk down FM to play a series of fights over coming weeks, with the outfit made available once all battles have been completed/paid for....

It’s kind of aMax Paynesort of day, isn’t it? First we had the feature (with exclusive new screens) recappingwhat we know aboutthe newMax Payne. Then we found out the mobile version of the firstMax Paynewas coming very soon. Now here we are talking about the latest trailer forMax Payne 3. Max Max Max! The new video actually fills us in on what’s going on with some of the story and the main driving force behind what Max is doing....

PS4 remaster all out in Japan I’ve been consigned to horrible downtown all week doing mycivic dutyand boy are my arms tired. And while I love to pay $7 for a $3 sandwich and to walk a mile and to drop $4 a day on public transit, you know what I don’t love about downtown? None of our plentiful, incredibly straight buildings are adorned with images of a giant falling anime babe about to crush and kill an entire Starbucks....

25th Anniversary matches The Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Global Tournament Series Grand Finals begins today at 10AM Pacific. The matches will be taking place at the Hyatt Regency just south of San Francisco all day, and you’ll get to see combatants from all around the world compete for cash prizes inSuper Street Fighter II: Turbo, 3rd Strike, Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition,andStreet Fighter X Tekken. Additionally, there will be a cosplay contest near the middle of the tournament, and early on Capcom plans to make some kind of special announcement....