Better late than never Vacation travel kept me from being able to get to the latest episode in Telltale’sMinecraft: Story Moderight away. I just finished it, and as always, I had my finger on the screenshot button the whole way through. Maybe you can use this later on when you’re looking for screenshots. That’s what I’ll be doing with it, anyway. I’ll need some images to paste into the review, which should be on its way in the next couple days....

Love is in the air for V in Night City. Just because they havesome of the heaviest hitterscoming after them doesn’t mean there isn’t time to pursue a love interest or two.Cyberpunk 2077has several potential romantic partners for players, so long as they play their cards right. Here’s the rundown of whose DMs you can slide into. Cyberpunk 2077 Romantic Partners Judy Alvarez V will meet Judy during Act 1 and then once again in Act 2....

‘Reminiscent of Star Wars!’ A fascinating curiosity from the retro enthusiasts over at Hamster this week, as Namco’sMirai Ninja— perhaps better known asFuture Ninja— has been re-released and is now available to download on both PS4 and Nintendo Switch. This is the latest in anincreasingly long lineofNamco classicsjoining theArcade Archivescatalog. Released to arcades in the fall of 1988,Future Ninjais a side-scrolling platform adventure that follows a highly skilled cybernetic martial artist on a mission of vengeance, determined to slay the demon that stole his body and soul....

We hardly knew you, BC Today is both a glorious and sad day for Xbox One backward compatibility. While the service just got a whole ton of excellent additions, Microsoft also announced that it will no longer be adding any original Xbox or Xbox 360 titles to the service in the future. That’s a huge bummer (the service is really great), but at least titles likeAsura’s Wrathand the OGSplinter Cellcan now be preserved for years to come....

Water decks have always had a solid place in thePokémon TCG Pocketmeta, especially with Misty being such a feast-or-famine card. So if you’re looking to play the best Water decks inPokémon TCG Pocket, here’s what you need to know. Pokémon TCG Pocket best Water decks Team Palkia This decklist makes use of both Palkia Ex and Origin Forme Palkia as your main damage dealers. The idea here is to build them up quickly with Manaphy and/or Misty while using Vaporeon’s Wash Out ability to move your Energy as necessary....

Celebrate good times It’s been alongtime coming, butMinerva’s DenforBioShock 2is worth the wait. The beloved DLC is now yours if you already owned thecore game on PC— otherwise, it’s on sale for $4.99. What’s more, Steam Achievements, Big Picture Mode, and full gamepad support are in. And Games for Windows Live and the SecuROM DRM are out! “If you have already purchasedBioShock 2through a different digital partner, we’ve got you covered,” reads a post by publisher 2K Games....

Call of Duty is now the tops It’s time to check in with the great Xbox One backwards compatibility race! It looks likeCall of Duty: Black Ops IIhas taken over the charts, with 78,172 votes at the time of this writing.Read Dead RedemptionandSkyrimfollow with 76,117 and 71,091 respectively, and the next several entries are basically allGears,Halo, andCall of Dutyrelated. This is about how I expected it to go — multiplayer shooters that still have online presence are on top....

From Software’s next title seeks to re-invent the Souls game It seems like yesterday when we were all huddling around the mysterious WebM videos floating around the internet. Showing a strange and unknown game resembling aSoulstitle, many people didn’t know what to make of it. The character looked unlike anything fromDark Soulsor evenDemon’s Souls, and the weaponry looked even more bizarre. But the more we saw, the more intrigued we all became....

An alternative to new consoles ThePlayStation 4is coming soon, and a lot of people are talking about “next-gen” games and what the future holds for gaming. Well, if buying another console isn’t something you want to think about, maybe this would be a good time to look at building a gaming PC. I’ve put together an idea for a system that will let you stay ahead graphically and be ready for this year’s biggest releases....

Commencing countdown, engines on… With planet Earth’s resources mostly depleted, and an energy crisis that has reached terminal velocity, the newly-formed World Space Agency begins colonization of the moon, harvesting of it Helium-3 reserves, a source that will offer the Earth the power it needs to sustain its burgeoning population. Unfortunately, communication with the established colony has suddenly ceased, resulting in a mass shortage of energy on our planet. The World Space Agency eventually comes together to launch a single astronaut on a recon and rescue mission....

You guys and gals all love arcade sports games, right? Sure you do. 2K Sports knows that, which is why they’re putting outThe BIGS 2, the sequel to 2007’s beloved baseball bash, on July 7th. That might seem a long way off, so for now, you’re going to have to satiate your desire to drill homers off the billboards of Times Square with the six screenshots of the game that 2K sent us yesterday....

“They said I could cuss.” Oh, Jaffe. Jaffe’s (Twisted Metal,God of War) new studio’s PS4 exclusive (in conjunction with Sony San Diego) isDrawn to Death, a third-person arena shooter set in a high school kid’s violent notebook. That should get someone sent to a principal’s office. There are a number of different characters and some oddball weapons, like a dragon stuffed with gasoline breathing fire. Oh, teens. That everything–levels, guns, characters–comes from some teen’s messed up imagination could make for a lot of wild, interesting stuff....

Get your quarters ready Are we about to witness a new renaissance in arcade games?Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundeadis taking a huge risk and following in the footsteps of games likeKiller Queen, launching into the physical world of arcade cabinets before it ever makes it to consoles. Jonathan Holmes and I got a chance to play together on the floor at PAX East and surprisingly didn’t do too awful!...