Angry Joe details his Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game

Kickstarter opens next month Joe Vargas, better known by his online persona as Angry Joe, has revealed details on tabletop game he currently has in development, based on Capcom’s legendaryStreet Fighterseries. Street Fighter: The Miniatures Gameis an officially licensed card battler for two to six players, with multiple gameplay styles. The game utilises a three-dimensional playing mat, dice and a deck of cards to recreate battles among some of Street Fighter’s most popular characters, with each fighter able to perform “combos” by utilising battle cards unique to each character....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Michael Alexander

Aspyr cuts one third of its staff

More depressing layoff news – word has come in that Aspyr is cutting about 1/3 of its staff as a result of the failing economy. Console gamers may not be familiar with Aspyr, but anyone who had a Mac growing up probably knows them well. Originally, they ported popular PC games like Civilization and The Sims to the Mac, and more recently have been bringing console games to both Mac and PC....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Sean Cohen

Awesomenauts is set for liftoff on the first days of May

Dutch indie studioRonimo Gameshas unveiled the release date for the rather excellent-lookingAwesomenauts. The 2D Multiplayer Online Battle Arena title will hit the PlayStation Store in North America on June 13, 2025. On May 2, it will be released on PlayStation Stores elsewhere in the world, as well as on Xbox Live Arcade. Want it on PC? Ronimo wouldloveto bring it to the master race platform, but there seem to be a few bumps on the road to porting it, according to a recent interview withJoystiq....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Allison Miller

Bayonetta 2’s depiction of Hell is the greatest in all of gaming

Hell is other games Hell. It’s not just a children’s soccer game that takes up an entire Saturday morning, but a possibly real place a lot of us might end up if we accidentally choose the wrong religion (I’m putting all my eggs in the snake handling Pentecostal basket). Since Dante wrote that divine comedy, Hell or some variation of it has found itself represented in all forms of media. In film, we’ve seen it in classics likeL infernoandBill & Ted’s Bogus Journey....

June 14, 2025 · 7 min · 1442 words · Jason Freeman

Be NPC or Die codes (April 2025)

Updated: July 08, 2025 We added new codes! BeNPC or Diewelcomes you to the Wild West! With criminals running amok, it’s more wild than you think. Whether you are playing on the side of law or chaos, a trip to the shop is a must. Surviving in this world is almost impossible without a good gun. Criminals kept catching me, butBe NPC or Diecodes finally gave me my comeuppance. Grab as many free Coins as you can and become the ruler of the unforgiving prairie....

June 14, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Elizabeth Robinson

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer trailer brings back body shields, bat weapons, and RC-XD cars

With theBlack Ops 6beta on the horizon, Treyarch and Raven Software aim to increase the excitement even more with its Multiplayer Reveal trailer. The trailer jams in plenty of new and returningCall of Dutyfeatures, with one of the stand-outs being the body shield tactic. You may remember thisBlack Ops Cold Warmechanic, allowing you to pick up a body and use it as a defense mechanism.Black Ops 6offers this maneuver once again, which will go along nicely with its newOmnimovement....

June 14, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Jack Parker

Capcom announces Street Fighter live-action show at SDCC

[Update:Here’s the announcement video that was screened during the panel.] Two years ago, there was a pretty bad-assStreet Fighterfan film calledStreet Fighter: Legacythat you might have seen. After it blew up the Internet, creator Joey Ansahexpressed an interestin producing a full-lengthStreet Fightermovie or show. Looks like he got that chance, and with the complete support of Capcom to boot! At Comic-Con,Street FighterproducerYoshinori Ono announcedStreet Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, a multi-part series being helmed by theLegacycrew....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Erik Henry

Chad Muska is the best Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater character of all time, don’t at me

What a character he is in real life too! I still remember where I was when I picked upTony Hawk’s Pro Skaterfor the first time. I was at my friend David’s house, completely unaware for what we were getting ourselves into. We were learning the ropes, then suddenly:“Superman” came on. It sounds cliche to say that hearing one song was a life-changing moment, but eight hours later, it still felt like we were in a split-screen trance....

June 14, 2025 · 2 min · 249 words · Heather Whitaker

Check out new model-on-model footage for New Gundam Breaker

Oh hey it’s Big Zam Earlier today, Bandai Namco released five minutes of footage for the upcomingNew Gundam Breaker, giving us our first good look at the game itself and the localization. The footage focuses around the three-on-three mode, which is brand new to the game. you’re able to take a look at the footage in all of its plastic model glory below. It sure is similar and different fromGundam Breaker 3, to say the least....

June 14, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Dominique Cabrera

Cuphead has cleared one million sales

It’s red hot If you’ve been enjoyingCupheadand want the talented folks at Studio MDHR to continue making games, real good news on that front: two weeks later, they’ve sold one million copies. “We have worked tirelessly over the past few years to deliver a game that remained true to our vision and we are both humbled and excited that so many people from around the world are playingCuphead– it truly makes it all worth it,” said co-creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer in ablog post....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Gregory Powers

Enjoy this 21-minute Killzone: Shadow Fall presentation

Shooting with the bang bangs Sony’s popped a 21-minute demo walkthrough ofKillzone: Shadow Fallfor your saucy delight, hot from the bowels of E3. The gameplay section is taken from that seen during the original PlayStation 4 reveal, with the Helghast attacking a Vektan city. Without the pressures of a press conference, the demo takes a lot more time to look around and show off. Also, there’s no God Mode on this new playthrough, so you get to see the player actually die, and have to fight properly....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Jessica Allison

Epic Games is over single-player campaigns

All free-to-play online games from here on out Epic Games is transitioning away from developing single-player games, the studio tellsPolygon. The company plans to develop smaller, free-to-play online games likeParagon,Fortnite, and the newUnreal Tournament, rather than more expensive, campaign-driven experiences likeGears of War. “The economics of those games forces developers to work with major publishers to succeed, and that seems to be irreversible,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told Polygon in a recent interview....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 184 words · Michael Wilkins

Fate/Grand Order is off to the wacky races this summer

Now this is podracing! Australians and other residents of the deeper southern hemisphere may be midway through their winters right about now, but it’s sunny and bright where it matters – inside mobile gacha games likeFate/Grand Order,whose English edition just debuted its second annual summer event. TitledDead Heat Summer Race, the new event breaks from last year’s tropical island colonization getaway by leaning into a desert rally race – the Ishtar Cup – hosted by none other than everyone’s favorite Mesopotamian-deity-slash-possessed-Fate-alumnus....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Andrew Davis