What the hell were they on when they drew that flyer? Retro game enthusiasts Hamster have gone all obscure with us again this week, reaching into their bag of odd classics and pulling out Konami’sPooyan, now available to download on Nintendo Switch. Originally released in arcades in 1982, before being ported to several home computers and consoles,Pooyanconcerns the escapades of “Mama Pig”, who must defend her litter of piglets (it’s “litter”, right?...

Leipzig is on, and Harmonix and Electronic Arts are setting things off by announcingRock Bandfor the European market, along with ten new tracks. Not surprisingly, they’ve also announced thatRock Bandwill be making its way to the PlayStation 2, featuring “new game elements specific to the platform,” which they’ve not revealed. The ten tracks (all masters) include: Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter,” Deep Purple “Highway Star,” The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” Faith No More “Epic,” Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock,” Radiohead “Creep,” Beastie Boys “Sabotage,” Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” OK Go “Here It Goes Again,” and Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds....

Sometimes, you might find yourself wanting something a little spooky but in space and with science. This is why I have put together some of what I consider to be the best sci-fi horror books you can get your hands on. As they say, in space, nobody can hear you scream. Combining two genres, like sci-fi and horror, can result in some truly terrifying outcomes. Space and the future are already pretty scary, with its limitless unknowns....

Mike Bithell’s stealth game Volume launching in 2015 Today during Sony’s gamescom press conference,Thomas Was Alonecreator Mike Bithell took the stage in Cologne, Germany to showcase his sophomore project,Volume. Volumelaunches next year, and is coming first to PlayStation 4 and Vita.

Valentine’s Island is the centerpiece of the newDig Itupdate, and you can visit the POI to get up to 23 new diggable items. The new location has been added as part of Update 1.6, which went live earlier on February 1. Players will be able to visit this POI and try their luck to find all the new items. To do so, they will have to discover it first, and it’s a pretty easy thing to do....

Three cards At long last Wizards is finally recognizing the brilliant Commander format forMagic: The Gathering. Hearthstonefans will sort of get the gist: you have one Commander (hero) that dictates the cards you’re able to take, and serves as the linchpin of your deck. I’m obviously over-simplifying it a bit, but Commander really is an apt description for it, and Wizards is taking that format and injectingstandard restrictionsto it with “Brawl....

Sullied your hands As part of their year in review for 2017, Pornhub released the stats for interesting things like length of time per visit, most searched terms and stars, and even down to age group. But the relevant thing here is which consoles most people streamed from. The majority of streams are on PlayStation 4 with 56%, followed by the Xbox One with 32%. Apparently “Nintendo’s portable 3DS had a large increase in market share but still only makes up 1% of game device traffic,” according to their data....

She calls the big one Bitey CyGames and Arc System Workshave announcedthat fifth DLC character Zooey will be made available for purchase inGranblue Fantasy: Versuson April 28. The ethereal dragon mom joins previous roster additionsNarmaya,Beelzebub,Soriz, andDjeeta. Accompanied by her dragon deities, Dyrn and Lyrn, Zooey arrives in theGF: Vuniverse with plans to bring order to the chaos caused by The Singularites – namely Gran, Djeeta, and Beelzebub. With her dragon pals, lightning magic abilities, and expert swordplay, this petite but overwhelmingly powerful fighter should not be taken lightly by anybody....

Also, producer Aonuma wants to work on something other than Zelda Nothing gets the blood pumping like newZeldadetails, and the July issue ofEDGEmagazine has got the junk you need. Zeldaseries producer Eiji Aonuma hasconfirmedthatA Link to the Past 2will run at 60 frames per second in 3D mode, whereas almost all 3DS games have been capped at 30 fps in 3D. “The faster the framerate,” he explains, “the more stable the 3D effect, so 60 fps is a big deal....

Apple has “rebalanced” international pricing on the App Store, giving Australian customers a price hike while raising prices for United Kingdom residents. The changes come as a result of shifting exchange rates relative to the US dollar. So, that one Destructoid commenter whoblames everything on Obamahas something to rage about. The cheapest UK price used to be 59p, but has seen a ten pense increase to 69p. Games previously priced as £1....

EA’s shooter topples Pok?mon X & Y in first week on the market Battlefield 4unloaded over 133,000 copies on the Japanese market in its debut, according to data obtained by tracking authority Media Create. The PlayStation 3 version of DICE’s first-person shooter vanquished all challengers in its first week on the market. The title sold121,699 units on the way to dethroningPokémon X&Y, which spent the previous month atop the Japanese charts....

‘Atoms’ I just can’t get that excited forFallout 76. Even with the insistence that there’s a single player game buried in there somewhere, the idea of playing a half-multiplayer half-not game is just…too fence sitting in theory. If it were a full-on realFallout 5with optional multiplayer elements I’d be on board, but for now I’m cautious. Part of that caution is due to Bethesda’s injection of microtransactions, funneled through a currency called “Atoms....

Death timers and snowball prevention Heroes of the Stormis about to get theMedicandArtanisheroes, but there’s a few big changes on the way for the core game. The first adjustment is death timers. Blizzard feels like they were way too low early on in a match, so they’ve increased them (for level one heroes, by six seconds). For mid to late game play the timers are roughly the same — Blizzard says this change is because players have issues capturing objectives early on, so punishing enemies with deaths will be more meaningful....