Yeehaw! Giddy up, there’s a tactical turn-based strategy game that you’ll be able to play while riding your pony on the cattle drive. Forever Entertainment has revealed a Switch port of Creative Forge’sHard West. It’s likeXCOMby way of the wild west.Hard Westeschews a main campaign in favor of eight smaller stories that all feature their own protagonist.We reviewed itin 2015, and found a great underlying game that was undone by too many bugs and balance issues....

‘Take a suck’ is a phrase you’re about to hear In North America, Team Ninja’sYaiba: Ninja Gaiden Zwill be hitting PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on June 29, 2025. There’s a new trailer for the game which features Miss Monday, Yaiba’s “in-game tour guide.” You’d … you’d better just watch it for yourself. I probably should be in the market for this, as a fan ofNinja Gaiden, cyborgs, ninjas, and especially cyborg ninjas....

A free content update just hit PC The open-world RPGOutwardis smoothing out some of its rough edges and expanding its endgame with a free content update. You love to see it! The update is live as of today on PC and arriving soon for Xbox One and PS4 players, with another patch–a stutter-fixing engine update–coming up next. If you’re wondering about that curious headline, the “Code Sonic” trick wasout there beforebut not necessarily widely known....

Pre-orders are up That lovely-looking NES30 arcade stick from 8Bitdo isup for pre-orderahead of an July 20, 2025 release. It’s $80 on Amazon and supports wireless play via Bluetooth, USB, D-Input and X-Input functionality, and easy modding. The company clocks the battery life at 18 hours. While the stick is aimed at Switch owners, it’s also compatible with Windows, Mac, and Android. What about games? Aside fromUltra Street Fighter II, there’s an awful lot of Neo Geo titles coming out that’d make good use of an arcade stick....

EA server issues are to blame TheAmazon page forSimCitywill no longer allow customers to purchase the game, citing server issues as the reason for pulling it. Peopleall over the Internetare complaining about their inability to playSimCitydue to its DRM that forces the player to always be connected to EA’s servers. Here is Amazon’s statement from their store page: “Many customers are having issues connecting to the ‘SimCity’ servers. EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed....

A quick apology to everyone before we get on with the winner announcement — I’m late closing this contest and I’m sorry I made you all wait! As you may have noticed, I was atSan Diego Comic-Conwhen it should have ended, and I admit, I forgot. I should drink less. The contest was a simple one: captionthis photoand win a copy ofOverlord IIfor 360 AND a Minion figure. While so many of the entries kept us laughing,Rockvillian‘s got us over and over (especially the Minion that’s saying “Frosties!...

Buckle up, we’re talking about anime When I hear that a new game is coming based on a popular shonen anime or manga, I tend to assume that we’re getting another fighting game that I’ll forget about within a week. I can only assume that everyNarutofan is a pro-level arena fighting game player at this point, given the number ofNinja Stormgames they’ve been faced with.One Piece: Burning Blood,Dragon Ball FighterZ,My Hero One’s Justice, the ill-fatedJump Force— it seems to me that when you make a game based on a hit anime, the obvious move is to go for a fighting game....

We need Rev 2 and DBFZ Arc System Works has done right by the Switch withBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, which is set for a simultaneous release with PC and PS4 in June — not having to wait months for your platform of choice while the community figures out the game all the while is a huge plus in the realm of fighters. TheGuilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus RSwitch port is also a good show of faith in the system, but it’s still nearly a six year old game....

She’ll shoot an arrow through your knee Granblue Fantasy: Versusis shaping up to be one of the most highly anticipated games on the market. With the wizards at Arc System Works behind it, the colorful world of Cygames’s hit mobile app is truly putting its best foot forward with its fighting game debut. The action is solid, the animation is fluid, and the developer is going above and beyond by putting an entireside-scrolling RPGin the final package....

Not a day goes by where I don’t see people clamoring for some info on the nextGuild Wars 2beta weekend. Well, today you’re going to get it! Compliments of Chris Whiteside, the official times for the secondGW2beta event are Friday, June 8th, at noon PDT, through Sunday, June 10th, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Whiteside adds: “You, our community, are an integral part of the development process, andGuild Wars 2simply would not be what it is today without you....

DLSea One of the (perhaps less serious) criticisms levied at the first part ofBioShock Infinite‘sBurial at Seawas that it was rather short at its hour or two run time. I’m not one to be upset with games for being too short, but if that was an issue for you,Ken Levine tweetedthat doing everything inBurial at Sea: Part 2— a “completionist” estimation — will run you five or six hours, which of course means the game is twice, possibly thrice as good asPart 1....

But the Blessed Mother returned Blizzard Entertainment was hit with a huge DDOS attack this weekend, which ensured that several titles, including recent releaseDiablo 4, were offline and unplayable for an extended period of time. The DDOS attack has since passed, and the dungeon-crawling sequel is, as of this writing, fully playable once again. While players started noticing issues late Saturday, the attack was first noted by the studio itself on the morning of Sunday, when abrief message posted to Twittersaid that the team was “currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers”....

More like Serf.com, right? King.com, the developer behind the bafflingly popular match-three puzzlerCandy Crush Saga, went public on the stock exchange yesterday, and it did not perform as well as the casual game behemoth had hoped. Starting at $22.50 per share, it dropped 15.56% to $19.00 by the end of the day yesterday. The poor start could be attributed to the volatility of the casual game market, where success and failure is often due toluckmore than anything else....