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Developer Strange Scaffold, the studio behind games like I Am Your Beast and TMNT: Tactical Takedown, has released a new trailer for El Paso, Elsewhere 2, highlighting the game’s third-person vampire-shooter action. Plus, you can play the game today thanks to a new demo on Steam. This sequel is the follow-up to 2023’s breakout El Paso, Elsewhere (which is also getting a TV adaptation – thanks, GameSpot), and brings back protagonist James Savage as he continues his journey across the United States to kill monsters like gargoyles, possessed animatronics, vampires, and more, and seal away these evil forces. Strange Scaffold says…
Grand Theft Auto VI is nearly, actually, truly upon us. The game releases November 19 and to celebrate the release that is about a month a four days away, Rockstar has unleashed its presumed final trailer.The trailer offers a little background on Jason, some insight into his and Lucia’s relationship, lots of explosions, a man eating fried chicken in a very intimidating way, and hints at the physical and emotional strife the protagonist duo will be experiencing in the game.The trailer features a song with a very long title called Flower In A Hurricane (feat. Tame Impala, SZA, King Gizzard…
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve flies on the tailwinds of its predecessor, which brought life back to the series in 2019. Yet it also dips deep into the series’ wealth of mechanics and themes – wingmen, huge mission areas, memorable rivals – to forge what feels like the ace of aces, and one of the series’ best entries.In the wake of an invasion of your homeland, you go down in a dogfight with Sotoa’s elite Shadow squadron alongside the “Wings of Theve,” a folk hero for the FCU that you discover is a little more tall tale than living…
Epic Games has reportedly delayed the release of an upcoming shooter game featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters from March to an unspecified date, according to Bloomberg. According to the publication’s sources, Epic is delaying the release because it is shifting to an “AI-first” production model using tools like Anthropic’s Claude. “No more hand-written code” is something one of the shooter’s directors told staff in an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg alongside instructions that all art for the game will be “generated with full AI workflows.” Two days after Bloomberg published the article, Epic revealed that its new Epic Games Launcher is available…
For nearly 20 years, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was my favorite game. While it was eventually supplanted by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Ocarina of Time remains a formative, treasured gaming experience that laid the foundation for the wider 3D action genre. However, I am the first to admit that while the original Nintendo 64 version – the only one available on Switch and Switch 2 – has aged better than most games of its era, much like its iconic hero, it doesn’t take long to realize it’s from a bygone era. For years, I…
Castlevania has been a dormant franchise for years, but Belmont’s Curse revives the series with fiery passion. There are hundreds of indies inspired by Konami’s gothic vampire-hunting games, putting a lot of pressure on the publisher to live up to its far-reaching legacy. Konami’s surprising, yet effective solution is to bring in a new developer: Evil Empire, best known for its work on the Castlevania-inspired Dead Cells. The resulting game has a fresh perspective, a brand-new protagonist, and whip-smart execution. Rose Belmont and her father Trevor have been summoned to Paris, a city under supernatural siege. Rose is eager to prove…
A couple of months back, we learned that Phoenix Cyclops would be the first DLC fighter to join Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls. He was just the first character in the game’s Year 1 DLC roadmap, however. This weekend, the next three characters were revealed. Jane Foster as Thor, Venom, and Jubilee are coming to the game over the next year, and Jane is coming this Winter. Check out the reveal trailer below. Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has an interesting roster, because in many cases, they opt to take a lesser-known alternative to a popular character. Black Panther is Shuri instead of…
Valor Mortis is a brave new game from developer One More Level. It competes not only against the studio’s excellent Ghostrunner series, but also the ever-expanding Soulslike subgenre of action games. Fortunately, Valor Mortis largely succeeds on both counts, creating a new world I hope to see more of from this team and a unique first-person stab at its action. It is too often unfairly challenging, largely because of brutal balance issues in the first half, and it doesn’t take its compelling narrative premise anywhere unexpected. But its beating heart is the combat and how it intersects with exploring this…
This week on The Game Informer Show, Giant Bomb’s Will Crosby joins us to discuss the recent launch of Gears of War: E-Day. Does a return to the past for Gears mean good things for it? Spoilers: yes, it does. And after the break, we dip into the latest entry in another long-running series, as Eric shares his review impressions of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Plus, Charles shares where he’s at in his Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave journey. Grab a cold beverage and stay awhile, it’s The Game Informer Show!The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the…
If you’re like me, you’re always on the look for new gear- and ability-gated exploration games that recall the joy of early Metroid and Castlevania games. Echo Weaver offers a new twist on that idea, by keeping the exploration element, but making progression be tied to knowledge acquired over the course of play, rather than new equipment. It’s a clever twist that has me intrigued from the early hours I’ve played. Our reviewer, Kyle Hilliard, has already had a chance to experience the full game, and had this to say: “Echo Weaver’s unique approach to the Metroid structure is admirable, unique,…