Month: January 2025

The first SteamWorld Dig was most notable for its unique blend of mining mechanics and Metroid-style exploration, but it ended right as it began to come into its own. Its sequel is twice as long and puts that added runtime to good use, as both the story and mechanics are given room to flourish. The result is a brilliant and varied evolution of the first game that not only expands upon its hybrid formula, but presents it in its best light. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

SteamWorld Dig 2 takes place in a post-apocalyptic steampunk world where Earth has become a desert wasteland; its remaining inhabitants are small populations of steam-driven robots and irradiated humans. You control a steambot named D…

The Evil Within is not a game that relies on cheap jump scares. It’s driven by a slow, sustained, and deeply pervasive sense of dread that sets your mind racing at every crunch of glass beneath your feet and every distant groan from an unseen enemy. Much of this tension is thanks to the game’s striking use of atmosphere, so gloomy and impactful it often borders on suffocating, but it’s also a testament to an action-heavy combat system whose scant ammunition and immediate threat of death is just as demanding as it is satisfying. Were it not for the occasional stumble into moments of immense frustration and an aimless, sputtering story, The Evil Within could have been something truly great. What’s left, though, is an uneven but ultimately captivating ode to the glory days of survival horr…

The Smash World Tour, a major Super Smash Bros. tournament and competitive circuit, has been unexpectedly shut down. The Smash World Tour championships were set for December 9 in Texas, with many top Smash players buying air fare and travel accommodations ahead of time. Instead, that event will not occur, along with the entirety of the 2023 circuit. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

The organizers of the Smash World Tour–a group of fans unaffiliated with Nintendo–say that Nintendo told them “without any warning” that they would no longer be able to operate the night before Thanksgiving. The organizers also say that they’ll be losing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” due to this shutdown.

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Netflix is making moves in the video game space, recently announcing that it is starting another internal game studio headed up by games industry veteran Chacko Sonny of Overwatch and God of War fame. This will be Netflix’s fifth internal game development studio. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt event this week (via VGC), Netflix gaming boss Mike Verdu confirmed that Sonny will lead a new “organic” studio for Netflix based in southern California. Prior to joining Blizzard, Sonny was a producer and studio head at Activision and later God of War developer Sony Santa Monica Studio. Sonny left Blizzard in 2021. There is no word yet on what Sonny’s new studio is development, whether it be a…