Recreation games

It now seems clear this information was not intended to be released to the public at this point, which makes sense given the low-key reveal for what would normally be big news. And then there was the "Januray" typo in the original small print - further evidence the whole thing was a mistake. … [Read more...] about Sony pulls PS5 game release dates from CES 2021 trailer

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Avalanche Software is also trying to do justice to a franchise with a messy history with gaming, as it works to deliver an open-world Harry Potter RPG  – a game that made the news itself this week, as Hogwarts Legacy was delayed to 2022. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is busier than most, in fact. Rocksteady Games is hard at work on its follow-up to 2015's Batman: Arkham Knight, with its take on Suicide Squad. WB Games Montreal is working on a co-op superhero game of its own, Gotham Knights. With The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021, you have to wonder whether Monolith Productions will be back with another game set in Middle-earth, following 2017's Shadow of War. Speaking of Middle-earth, there's also Daedalic Entertainment's Lord of the Rings: Gollum game and The Lord of the Rings MMO from Athlon and Amazon Games on the near horizon.  … [Read more...] about Star Wars, Indiana Jones, 007, and an incoming Golden Age for Licensed Games

The fact that Pokemon Snap didn't kick off a new wave of first-person, on-rails photography games is a crime. You take pictures of Pokemon. That sounds really boring on paper, but dammit it makes a strangely engrossing game. It's not enough to just take pictures - you have to take good pictures, and that means thinking about composition, son. And when you've got Pidgey flying all over the place you need to have a hair trigger on the shutter to make sure you capture to the majestic beast right at the opportune moment. … [Read more...] about Weirdest spin-offs in video game history

X-Men vs. Street FighterEven back in the 90s, Capcom was no stranger to one of Marvels most famous superteams, having made X-Men: Children of the Atom in arcades and Mutant Apocalypse on the SNES. But then, someone at Capcom had an idea so brilliant, we feel as though we owe them a piece of our souls as payment: why not pit the world warriors against the worlds most uncanny mutants? With that, X-men vs. Street Fighter tag-team fighting was born a concept so popular that it inspired the outstanding Versus series, which includes gems like Capcom vs. SNK and Marvel vs. Capcom. … [Read more...] about The 15 most bizarre crossovers in gaming