Live show: Retro City Rampage

Also, XCOM: Enemy Unknown! [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you may be as much a part of the show as anything else.] It’s seems like an eternity that we’ve been waiting for the release of the open-world parody gameRetro City Rampage, but at long last, its sweet, buttery, nostalgic goodness is upon us....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Megan Smith

Live show: WTF? Bio Force Ape on Mash Tactics

The fur will fly with “WTF Wednesday” today onMash Tactics. King Foom will be delving into a true rarity,Bio Force Ape. Originally developed by the now defunct SETA company way back in the Famicom era, a playable build ofBio Force Apewasdiscovered and copied just last year. The most astonishing part of this tale of a game that might never have been played, is that it is apparently really damn good. Tune in to behold this lost treasure with your own eyes....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Henry Fernandez

Lost Odyssey and more come to Xbox One

Toy Story 3, Guwange now backwards compatible The newest batch ofbackward compatible titles for the Xbox Onehave been released, and it’s a pretty solid selection of games this time.Lost Odyssey,Toy Story 3, andGuwangeall just became playable on the Xbox One. Lost Odyssey, Toy Story 3 and Guwange are coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility todayhttps://t.co/qPMRNrLoTQpic.twitter.com/9CI3GeOHBz — \ Larry Hryb \ (@majornelson)June 29, 2025 Of the three,Lost Odysseyis the standout. It’s aFinal Fantasytitle in all but name, one of the first games Mistwalker studios put out after Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu left Square....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 267 words · Roberto Williams

Man beaten with own leg in Deus Ex ad

Mankind ‘Divided’ indeed! There issomethingto the idea of modified humans versus, uh, Humans Classic. There was the professor a few years ago who had a Google Glass-looking pair of specs physically attached to his head that some folks in a Paris McDonald’stried to rip out. Ok. But prosthetic legs have also existed for a really, really long time and I don’tthinkanyone has ever ripped someone’s off and beat them with it solely because they had one?...

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Robert Hendricks

March’s PlayStation Plus selection includes an all-time great

Shadow of the Colossus and Sonic Forces Sony is back to offering two PS4 games for the March 2020 PlayStation Plus lineup. I’ll leave theSonic Forcesverdict to the more deeply entrenched Sonic fans, butShadow of the Colossusis one of those defining games for PlayStation. It’s the exact type of game I love to see promoted with PS Plus–something everyone should check out at some point in their life. It’s a timeless adventure....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 131 words · Erika Williams

Netflix rolls out map of the Witcher universe, some of which lines up with the games

Can you find Ard Skellig? As you may have heard, the vast majority of the material thatThe WitcherNetflix TV seriesis borrowing from involves the books. However, the games did the exact same thing, so they’re bound to line up in more ways than one. Astute game series fans will be able to usethis new interactive mapto locate some of the bigger locales that you’ve explored yourself, and then some. It’s a blast to whiz around and go “oh yeah, Ard Skellig,” and ascertain the vast expanse of the Nilfgaardian Empire for yourself....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · Larry Butler

Next Zelda won’t take inspiration from Skyrim

Aonuma tried the game because of its name WhenThe Legend of Zeldadirector Eiji Aonuma said that he had playedThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyriminan interview, word got out that he was using the Bethesda title as inspiration for the nextZelda. Naturally, that got our imaginations going. In an interview withUSGamer, he sets the record straight —Skyrimhasn’t impacted his ideas for the series, it turns out. “I started playingSkyrimbecause the name was so close to ‘Skyward Sword’and I wanted to see what that was about,” he explained....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Julia Arnold

Pachter: Call of Duty: MW3 will hit $1.1b in six weeks

It doesn’t take an analyst to tell you thatCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3is going to make some major money this holiday season, but it does take one to hone in on how much it’s going to make in a set time frame. Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities says that Activision’s next big game will top even its record-breaking predecessor. Pachter toldIndustry Gamersthat he feels MW3 would set a new entertainment record, making $1....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Kristin Pierce

Palworld just keeps hitting milestone after milestone

If you’ve stepped into the gaming world for even a yoctosecond these past few days, you’ll have heard ofPalworld. Maybe it’s a bit cliché to say it’s taking the industry by storm, but the data shows just how massive it’s been in such a short span of time. We’ve already spoken about how the game has beensmashing Steam records, but the numbers just keep going up and up. At the time of writing, not only hasPalworldsurpassed 1....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · Megan Serrano

Play across ten multiplayer maps in Rainbow Six Siege

…but there are more to come, it seems Rainbow Six Siegewill launch with ten playable maps. Talking toPCGamer, level designer Benoit Deschamps said that the team originally had over 50 ideas for different environments, but had to narrow down the options … for now, anyway. “As for now yes, there are ten maps,” said Deschamps, “but we have more planned because we’re already working on more content for players after launch....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Brittany Christensen

Promoted blog: Why Minecraft laughs in DayZ’s stupid face

[Dtoid Community Blogger SephirothX thoughtMinecraftwas so much better thanDayZhe wrote an entire blog about it. CONTROVERSY! Want to see your own words appear on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] In case you haven’t been following along with PC gaming news lately, a zombie-survival mod for the gameARMA IInamedDayZhas been gaining popularity. Basically,DayZis a zombie-survival game where your entire objective is to simply stay alive for as long as you’re able to....

May 29, 2025 · 9 min · 1721 words · Justin Jensen

Redout Nintendo Switch trailer captures that classic Wipeout vibe

It don’t work on water unless you’ve got pow-er! Nicalis has dropped a gameplay trailer for the Nintendo Switch port of anti-gravity racerRedout. The high-speed footage showcases the game’s dazzling blend of colour and speed, with an overall vibe that recalls other hover-racers such asF-ZeroandWipeout. Redoutfeatures over 60 tracks built into 12 unique environments ranging from a post-apocalyptic Earth to the moons of Jupiter. Players can customise the game’s 28 different ship types to their liking, before taking part in multiple modes and events....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Matthew Olsen

Resident Evil 3 misses the top spot of the UK Charts

Survival horror remake debuts at number two Capcom’sResident Evil 3did not debut at the top of the UK Charts this week. Having sold less than half the amount of launch units as its predecessor,Resident Evil 2, Jill Valentine’s return to Raccoon City ultimately landed at number two, behind Activision’sCall of Duty: Modern Warfare. Of course, it should be noted that the UK is under soft lockdown legislation right now, which has caused the closure of most of the high street....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 276 words · Joel Perry