Princess Peach: Showtime hits Switch exclusively later this month on March 22 and ahead of its launch, Nintendo has released a demo for the game. In it, you can play as two of Peach’s transformations: Swordfighter Peach and Patissiere Peach. The demo is available to download on Switch right now.  “Swing, strike, dodge, and counterattack…

Amid industry-wide layoffs that have already affected more than 6,700 people in 2024 alone (on top of 10,000 laid off in the games industry last year), Capcom has announced it is increasing its starting salary in Japan by more than 25 percent. Plus, those already working at the company behind games like Street Fighter 6,…

The RPG Maker series is arguably the most efficiently named “game” in the medium. It is a tool that lets players make their own RPGs. The series has been around in Japan since the late ’80s but has regularly made its way to North America across myriad platforms. It has always existed somewhere between a…

Amazon Studios has released the first official trailer for its upcoming Fallout TV series and unsurprisingly, it features power armor, a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Vault Dwellers, and plenty more. And it looks great. Today’s trailer is just a three-minute tease of what awaits in the full series, which premiers next month on April 11 (originally…

The Alters is a fascinating new sci-fi survival game from 11 Bit Studios, makers of Frostpunk and This War of Mine. First revealed last October, the game stars a man named Jan shipwrecked on a desolate planet with no one to rely on but himself. And by “himself,” I mean multiple versions of himself. Jan…

The classic PC shooter Stalker (often stylized as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.), is now available on Xbox starting today. The game’s official title is Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy and includes the base game Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat. For those who never played the original games, this is a great way to…

Unknown 9: Awakening has been silent since its reveal at Gamescom 2020, but today’s Xbox Partner Preview saw it reemerge with its first gameplay trailer and release window. The game is set within the popular sci-fi media franchise and is a third-person adventure starring Haroona (played by The Witcher‘s Anya Chalotra), a woman gifted with mysterious…

Last July, Square Enix revealed that Final Fantasy XIV, the critically acclaimed and long-running MMORPG, would be coming to Xbox Series X/S this spring. After a quick but seemingly successful open beta period on the platform, the company has revealed Final Fantasy XIV will fully launch on Xbox Series X/S on March 21.  This news…

About eight months ago, Capcom and Microsoft revealed Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess in somewhat vague terms. It is an action game based in and inspired by historical Japan, but that was about all we knew. Today, Capcom showed a lot more gameplay and offered some additional insight into the single player game. Plus it…

Atlus has confirmed that an epilogue to the Japanese version of the original Persona 3 (that first appeared in the West in Persona 3 FES) will come to Persona 3 Reload later this year. More specifically, Episode Aegis – The Answer will hit the recently released Persona 3 remake as part of its expansion pass…