Neon Nerve

09/06/2024

New Vegas now gets Fallout 3's dramatic VATS graphics thanks to a mod.

Through the use of a mod, New Vegas has at long last received the more theatrical VATS graphics of Fallout 3. Fallout: New Vegas had a number of minor adjustments made by Obsidian, one of which was a complete rework of VATS. The damage reduction and critical bonus have been adjusted lower, which mea...

08/06/2024

PS1-style horror without jump scares

A scary journey in the style of PS1 that doesn’t offer any jump scaresFear the Spotlight is all about the story and the mood. The movie company Blumhouse is going to make video games starting in 2023. They have a new branch called Blumhouse Games that will “work with independent game developers ...

08/06/2024

Play While Waiting's demo now to find enough to do while you wait.

Don’t wait to enjoy While Waiting’s demo, which offers things to do while waiting.Just the right adventure game for free time. A website I’ve never heard of says the typical individual spends five years in line. Five years! Other sites I’ve never visited mention 3 years, 6 months, or 2 weeks...

08/06/2024

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers finally gets its 1990s arcade brawler tie-in.

It’s hard for me to imagine that they adapted The Simpsons into a fighting game in an arcade before Power Rangers existed. Surely, it would have been logical to do so. It would have been a side scrolling arcade brawler based on the Power Rangers, similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in...

08/06/2024

Former Dead Cells lead Tenjutsu has explosive 2D action.

Tenjutsu, the latest game from Sébastien Benard, formerly of Dead Cells, has explosive 2D action in an 8-bit style.Wow, roguelikes had a smashing year. The creators of Dead Cells are now pitting their three visually stunning action games against one another. Putting aside Hades 2 for the time, whic...

08/06/2024

Realistic visual effects make the multiplayer FPS eerie.

Bodycam is now out, and it plays more like a horror game than a gun. A couple of years ago, video of people playing a bodycam gun that looked eerily real went popular. That game, Unrecord, isn’t out yet, but a new first-person shooter called Bodycam, which just came out on Steam in early access, ....

07/06/2024

Tactical battle then hang with Blade.

Battle tactically and then hang around with Blade.Free to play on the Epic Game Store is our 2022 game of the year runner-up, the woefully underappreciated Marvel’s Midnight Suns. It’s time to hit the “forgot password” button once more and get into your Epic Game Store account because this w...

07/06/2024

Concord is creating Helldivers 2: $40 for the full 16-hero game at launch

07/06/2024

Bethesda veteran Nate Purkeypile's latest game releases in October.

The upcoming game developed by experienced Bethesda developer Nate Purkeypile is scheduled for release in October.The Axis Unseen, a game that combines heavy metal and horror elements, has released a new trailer showcasing the intense experience of hunting mythical creatures from ancient legend. Cer...

07/06/2024

Nightfall's interconnected environment was nearly finished a year ago

The world of Nightfall, an unofficial Dark Souls sequel, was almost finished a year ago, but as modding tools got better, the people who made it had to remake it all. What do you know? It sounds like that’s worth the wait.Grimrukh, the lead artist on Dark Souls: Nightfall, has released a 14-minute...

07/06/2024

MultiVersus developers call a real-money life purchase option 'a glitch'

An unexpected occurrence seems to have introduced the possibility of acquiring 6 additional lives at a cost of $10. The developers of MultiVersus have stated that the possibility to buy additional lives with real currency during campaign missions is indeed a “bug,” and not an intended feature of...

06/06/2024

Microsoft apparently to add Call of Duty 2024 to Xbox Game Pass.

In a first for the genre, Microsoft intends to release Call of Duty this year on Xbox Game Pass. The Wall Street Journal said today that Microsoft had now made the choice before to the game’s official release next month. Even though Activision Blizzard completed its $68.7 billion acquisition of Mi...

06/06/2024

Bards, biomes, and mission improvements are added

The fantasy survival co-op game receives a bard, a new biome, and significant mission improvements.The most-requested feature by the community, along with musical instruments for jam sessions, is now available in the Huge Enshrouded update. Your most-requested feature for the co-op fantasy survival....

06/06/2024

Hitman VR finally has dual wielding

The return of dual wielding in Hitman is happening in a whole new virtual reality game, but it’s limited to the Meta Quest 3.This summer, Hitman 3: VR: Reloaded will be released. The elimination of dual wielding in the most recent trilogy—now called World of Assassination—was a major bummer fo...

06/06/2024

Gray Zone Warfare dev turns back patch

Gray Zone Warfare dev turns back patchbecause ‘we didn’t believe our community ‘We didn’t believe our community when they highlighted performance difficulties,’ says Gray Zone Warfare developer, who turns back patch.The 5.2 hotfix is once again in the oven. After users complained that Gray...

06/06/2024

This horror game was inspired by the developer's pet chicken loss.

This horror game takes its inspiration from the dev’s own experience with the loss of a pet chicken. It combines elements of Resident Evil with Abe’s Oddysee, except instead of being a human, you play as a chicken. Vegano-horror would be awesome if it became its own subgenre.Just as Morrissey fa...

05/06/2024

Players are going crazy about Xal'atath in World of Warcraft's latest

New term unlocked: “motherplane” Players are showing a lot of affection for the giant baddie Xal’atath in the most recent teaser for The War Within in World of Warcraft, and I’m not exactly surprised by this. It has been brought to my attention by Fraser Brown, a fellow member of the PC Game...

05/06/2024

Telltales of Kenzera: Zau director reduces Switch price

“It’s our way of making a statement in the face of targeted harassment,” said the director of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, who reduced the price of the game on Switch after receiving the news.In response to the harassment that he and his colleagues have experienced, Abubakar Salim has spoken out aga...

05/06/2024

Metal Slug Tactics declared a 2023 release in mid-2022 but disappeared.

After a hiatus of two years, Metal Slug Tactics has finally made its comeback with a brand new trailer and a guarantee that it will be released in the fall. Can you recall the Metal Slug Tactics? There is no need to feel bad if the response is no: The news came out of nowhere ... Read more

05/06/2024

Spreading a pirated game you liked is "at worst an equal trade.

The developer of Ultrakill has stated that it is acceptable to pirate his game if you do not have any extra money: “Those who are able to afford it should not be the only ones who have access to culture.” That piracy is essentially an unavoidable consequence for any piece of software is somethin...

05/06/2024

The second Hades 2 patch changes a lot.

Players are remarkably tolerant to the nerfs that hit everyone’s favorite overpowering build in the most recent patch for Hades 2. Even more so than before, with today’s release of a huge new patch, Hades 2 “is absolutely worth playing in early access,” as we stated in May. Replaces “dozen...

04/06/2024

Crusader Kings 3's next expansion coming in a few months.

Learn about alternative energy sources in September. The announcement of Crusader Kings 3: Roads to Power in February sparked the most excitement among the community members of the grand strategic series to that point. I enjoy the most of the downloadable content, but most people think that Paradox....

04/06/2024

Riven, published in 1997, promises "expanded" gameplay

04/06/2024

SaveTF2 returns to pressure Valve into anti-cheat support.

Players of Team Fortress 2 have launched a new effort to combat the persistent aimbot threat, and they have already collected over 140,000 signatures on a petition. Even though it’s been 17 years since its release, Team Fortress 2 continues to have a dedicated fanbase that ranks the classic team s...

04/06/2024

Avalanche's New York office is closing

04/06/2024

Ubisoft works hard to finish Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.

How many different studios are required to recreate a video game that is twenty years old? Who knows, maybe we’ll find out one day. Ubisoft has brought on another studio to work on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, which has been a long-standing project that has been experiencing a l...

03/06/2024

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is Whimsical Game

It is because of Recettear that there are a great number of entertaining games that revolve around the concept of owning a shop that sells rations, potions, and swords to adventures. Imagining what it would be like to live on the other side of the buy-and-sell menu in video games is the task at hand...

03/06/2024

Disco Elysium looks alike fantasy game.

When one contemplates the appearance of Disco Elysium, one immediately thinks of a particular genre of fantasy game. This is the kind of game that yells out, “Welcome to Top-Down Town, here is a world full of people to talk to and stats to raise, and maybe a secret about your past to uncover!” o...

03/06/2024

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk game

The Red Strings Club is the name of the cyberpunk game that tells the story of three teams that are considered to be underdogs. The cybernetic upgrades that are aimed to make people healthier, happier, and more popular on the internet were developed by the genderless android known as Akara-184. Thes...

03/06/2024

The Forgotten City is the top independent adventure game.

Among independent adventure games, The Forgotten City is the best. During the course of The Forgotten City, you will have the opportunity to make a statement along the lines of “There is no shame in building on the works of people who succeeded you.” In the present moment, when you are in a Roma...