The classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night game has made a surprise appearance on mobile, ahead of the animated series' March 5 release on Netflix. Available on both the Play Store and App Store, the Play Store description calls it a "direct port of the classic console action RPG". "Jump, dash and slash your way

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man Of Medan came out in August 2019, which we found to be a flawed interactive adventure horror title (check out our review here). Nevertheless, a second entry is coming soon, and developer Supermassive Games have dished out a few new details. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope was

The Sonic The Hedgehog movie is out this week. Seeing the blue furball in action did trigger some unpleasant memories. No, we're not talking about the first draft Sonic we saw with the human teeth. This turn of events reminded me of the number of video game clones made to cash in on the success of Sega's first-ever So

Did anyone one of us ask for another Silent Hill movie adaptation? Yeah, me neither, but we're getting one anyway, including an adaptation of horror camera game Fatal Frame. Director Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf, the first Silent Hill movie) told French website Allocine that he will be working on both an u

2019 was a mixed bag when it comes to video games and pop culture, at least for me. The year went by with a mixed bag of ups and downs - surprise hits and big disappointments. So without further ado, here are my top happenings of 2019 - the good and the bad, in no particular order. #1. Ace Combat 's glorious return

2018 was a tough year to beat for gaming, but 2019 did alright in my book. Another year of great games come and goes as the current games generation nears its end and beckons the next generation. Without rambling even further, here are my top ten games of 2019: #10. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice The Soulsborne genre of

Oh Metroidvania genre, how fast and bountiful you've flourished. Yet for every Hollow Knight and Axiom Verge out there claiming all the praise and awards, it would be nice to see a gothic vampire-laden horror-bound "anime" version of that. Especially from the king of the genre himself, Koji "I love whips & cowboy

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown successfully revived a genre long-lost in the steady stream of mindless battle royales and MOBAs saturating the market; the arcade flight sim. It’s been a whopping 12 years since the last major instalment in the Ace Combat franchise, let alone any other lesser-known arcade flight sim

Konami has announced the return of the eFootball League PES esports series for the 2019/20 season. It's a competition that includes the eFootball.Pro, a 3v3 regular-season league for pro players representing international clubs to compete in eFootball PES 2020. These are the ten teams confirmed the join the eFootball

Sony Interactive Entertainment's final State Of Play presentation for 2019 has confirmed what has already previously leaked: The Resident Evil 3 Remake is officially happening and it's coming pretty soon, on 3 April 2020. The reveal also confirmed that the spinoff game Resident Evil Resistance is actually the upcoming

In conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of PlayStation, today PlayStation fans all over the world gathered in Japan, as well as in front of their screens, to watch the PlayStation Awards 2019. It was an event that celebrated the amazing games we've been playing not just this year but ever since the launch of the first

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the original PlayStation, which originally launched in Japan on 3 December 1994 and changing the landscape of the gaming industry forever. Sony's first console is currently the fifth best-selling gaming console of all-time (including handhelds), with over 102.49 million units sold to

Man, I remember a time when I enjoyed the heck out of Chrono Trigger on the PS1. Yes, I'm one of those guys late to the SNES JRPG party. But the fact that a 1995 SNES cartridge game ported on a CD anthology -tacked on with loading times, mind you- can still impress me more than all the PS1 FFs and Konami/Capcom JRPGs

Trouble might be brewing in the house that brought us Death Stranding. Kojima Productions and Konami staff member (for Kojima's Metal Gear side of things) Kenichiro Imaizumi has reportedly left the company after 20 years of helping out otaku culture's personification of God. According to a VGC report, Imaizumi left t

Update: the article's original headline said that Death Stranding had 10 awards; it has 9. Kakuchopurei regrets the error. The Game Awards 2019 is happening soon in the next few weeks, so it's apparent that the nominations are primed and ready.  Turns out that it's chock-filled with Death Stranding. No, really: th

With Kojima Productions' Death Stranding out now, we thought it would be appropriate to talk about the company's founder Hideo Kojima. The man who created the Metal Gear series and placed Konami on the map time and again for 30 years is considered a genius and a video game auteur. Or a batshit-insane producer and dire

[Review originally published on 1st November, 2019] Platform: PS4 Genre: FedEx deliveryman simulator with babysitting and half-baked stealth plus combat. I really wanted to like Death Stranding. From the day the game was revealed at E3 2016 up until the very day I received my review code, there was a consistent fe

Publisher Skybound Games and developer Lab Zero Games have announced that the Xbox One version of Skullgirls 2nd Encore has been "postponed indefinitely due to unforeseen development and production challenges". The announcement didn't go into the details about these challenges. It's safe to say that the game will not

Konami continues to support eFootball PES 2020 by adding more and more official licenses. The latest addition is the Italian Serie B, which will be introduced in the upcoming Data Pack 2.0 update. This comes after eFootball PES 2020 already having the license to Juventus and the Italian Serie A, and now the second-hig

Platforms: Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: Another Konami travesty to outsuck Contra Returns It's honestly easy to pick on a company like Konami these days, what with their past questionable decisions and the way they're treating their game franchises as of late. Then again, they're making more money from their pachi