Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl shows off its mechanics, including wavedashing

He’s just wavedashing at me… menacingly! Nickelodeon All-Star Brawlhas been building up some steam on the promise of a platform fighter featuring some beloved Nick cartoons. Today, we got a gameplay breakdown that shows just how much platform fighter influence thisAll-Star Brawlwill have. And really, the answer is best summed up in one sentence: here’s SpongeBob SquarePants wavedashing. The wavedash is best summarized as utilizing downward air-dashes to propel your character across the arena....

July 20, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Paige Yu DDS

Official Anime Eternal Trello and Discord

RobloxAnime Eternalis an incremental auto-clicker blast with tons of anime characters and power-ups. Besides assembling a team of units you can also turn into anime avatars and buy a bunch of upgrades like weapons, powers, and more. Luckily there’s a list of everything on theofficialAnime EternalTrello and Discord. Anime Eternal Trello and Discord Guide Here are all the community links you need to dive intoAnime Eternalwith all the info you need:...

July 20, 2025 · 2 min · 236 words · Shannon Holmes

Overwatch characters make such good cats

Fan art reimagines cast at cats Overwatchhas had no shortage of fan art to further cement its cast in public consciousness.I made some.Blizzard made some. If the crew was a bit less humanoid, a little more pocket monster, there’d probably be enough visual recognition there for a cute series like, “What my mom thinksOverwatchcharacters are called” where Reaper gets rechristened Bo Jangles and then she asks if I’m going to start thinking about getting a real job soon....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Steven Cruz

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax lands on Steam, Switch, and PS4 next year

Strange we never got a Persona 5 Arena I’m not much of a fighting game fan (at least when compared to other writers for this site) and yet, somehow, my Xbox Series S is starting to fill up with them. There were so many from the last generation of consoles I missed that I keep scooping them up every time there’s a sale. Case in point:Persona 4 Arena, which I picked up for about $5 just a few weeks after getting my Series S....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Mary Middleton

Phasmophobia: what’s changed in Bleasdale Farmhouse?

Phasmophobiahas gone through many changes since it was released back in 2020. While the core gameplay elements are still there, Kinetic Games has stayed true to what made its ghost-hunting title such a hit in the indie horror scene. As of right now, update 0.12.0.1 has started to roll out, which not only brings a few tweaks to the game but also introduces the first of two major reworks for some ofPhasmo‘s legacy maps....

July 20, 2025 · 5 min · 870 words · Rhonda Gross

Platinum’s Max Anarchy is Anarchy Reigns in West

Platinum’snewly announcedsmash ’em up,Max Anarchy, will be known as the slightly less coolAnarchy Reignswhen it comes to the West. The game, which will include Platinum’s first online combat mode (as well as single-player, don’t worry), is scheduled for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this fall. In addition to the name change, we also have some first screenshots for the game. As you may see,MadWorld‘s Jack seems to be the star of the show, and he’s not just in black-and-white this time around....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Ronnie Griffin

Play Wii Sports Club for free this weekend

You know, if you want As announced last week, Nintendo is giving Wii U owners the opportunity to playWii Sports Clubfor free today through Sunday, March 23 at 11:59 PM Pacific. There are three games available currently — Tennis, Bowling, and Golf — and the latter just got a new nine-hole Resort Course. Outside of promotions like this, these sports are $9.99 each to own, or $1.99 to rent all of them for 24 hours on the Wii U eShop....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Andrea Martin

Please send me on a One Way Trip, PlayStation

Those colors…that music…this is the game for me If you know anything about me, you know how much I love trippy things, and this PS4 titleOne Way Triplooks like it’s going to be right up my alley. It’s headed straight for PS4 and PS Vita when it debuts next year in 2015, but for right now we’ve got this bizarre, dreamlike trailer to drool over and a few tidbits about what to expect from the game in the meantime....

July 20, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Terry Williams

Rainbow Six Siege PC standard edition held as digital only hostage

Want a physical copy on PC? Collectors editions only for you [Update: According to Ubisoft, the standard edition ofRainbow Six Siegefor PC will be available physically at retail locations in the United States.] Standard editions of games are fun. They allow you to get the game for the lowest possible price without any additional bells and whistles attached. They’re the default way to buy a game, aren’t they? As it turns out, not always....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Bryan Montes

Red Dead Revolver is out on PS4

$15 for the 12-year-old PS2 game The rather unrelated predecessor to Rockstar’sRed Dead Redemption,Red Dead Revolvercame out in 2004 (that’s PlayStation 2 era, folks) after Rockstar bought the rights and developer Angel Studios, which became Rockstar San Diego. You can get it for$15 on PS4“with full 1080p up-rendering and enhanced features such as Trophies, Shareplay, Remote Play, Activity Feeds and Second Screen support for game manuals with PS Vita or PS App....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 72 words · Tyler Rivera

Shovel Knight Dig is a new game in the Shovel Knight universe

With a collaboration from Nitrome Today during the Yacht Club Games presentation, the studio announced anewgame in theShovel Knightfranchise (read: not an expansion for the original),Shovel Knight Dig. The game looks to be a sort of mix between classic platforming and the belovedMr. Drillerseries, and will be a joint collaboration between franchise creator Yacht Club Games and Nitrome. In case you haven’t heard, Nitrome kicks ass in the mobile space (pivoting into consoles recently) and has developed a ton of great games likeBomb Chicken:the two of them together is an amazing combination....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Stephanie Murphy

Sony’s new tiered PlayStation subscription could be announced next week

Long-rumored multi-tier subscription plan might be official “as soon as next week” Several months ago, there were rumblings of a new (but seemingly familiar) PlayStation subscription service with different tiers — you might remember hearing the codename, Spartacus, which has since lived on in forum posts, threads, and comments.According to a Bloomberg report, Sony could announce this expanded service as soon as next week. As the story goes, this new subscription will combinePlayStation Plus— our gateway to “free” PS4/PS5 games and online multiplayer — as well asPlayStation Now— an on-demand game service with cloud streaming and downloads, depending on the platform....

July 20, 2025 · 3 min · 464 words · Kristen Moreno

Stick it to the Man dev working on another gross game

Zombie Vikings The off-kilterStick it to the Man!was a surprise charmer last year with a style and tone that evoked the likes ofRocko’s Modern Lifeand anime of that era. The studio’s follow up isZombie Vikings, a four player co-op adventure starring a bunch of gross zombie vikings trying to retrieve Odin’s one good eye that Loki has stolen. There’s alsotalk of some sort of Megazordstitching together of all four characters into one giant zombie....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Paul Wilson