Hey guys,where’s Torgo? The rule is “No Torgo, no sale”. If you forgot Torgo, then I’m going to forget about you,forever. That’s becauseManos: The Hands of Fatefor iOS (and hopefully Android and XBLA) looks like your average, forgettable, “retro inspired” 2D platformer, with gold coind collecting, disappearing platforms, constant attacks from random monsters and giant, crane-necked bosses. There is even a shoot’em up stage complete with biplanes. Absolutely nothing about the game looks original… except Torgo....

Microsoft has named its new chief executive officer following Steve Ballmer, who announced hisintent to retireonce a replacement was found back in August. He’s now out and Satya Nadella, the former executive VP of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, has taken his place as CEO. “Having worked with him for more than 20 years, I know that Satya is the right leader at the right time for Microsoft,” said Ballmer. Additionally, founder and chairman of the board of directors Bill Gates has taken on a new role as technology advisor to better “[support] Nadella in shaping technology and product direction....

The Last of Uswon’t be returning to its multiplayer side after all. Naughty Dog confirmed today that it has stopped development on what it’s been callingThe Last of Us Online, a multiplayerTLOUexperience. The project has been in development for some time, with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann taking the stage atSummer Game Fest 2022to talk about it. Outside of concept art, the multiplayer endeavor has been mostly quiet, with the teamsaying it needed more timeearlier this year....

A Platinum dev is helping out with the action sequences WithNieR: Automatareviving interest in the franchise considerably, Yoko Taro and friends are probably keen to get moreNieRout in the world, and what better way to do that than to bring back a misunderstood classic. ANieR Replicant re-release project burst onto the scene in Marchand subsequently confused everyone involved. Was it a remaster? A remake? A re-imagining? No one was really sure at first until the details of the “version up” started to fall into place....

Belle of the Brawl This weekend, news came out of Japan’sDead or Alive Festival 2018that two regular characters would be returning in Koei Tecmo’s upcomingDead or Alive 6, and that they would be bringing with them an all-new roster member. A new English trailer gives us a better look at the three feisty femmes. First up we have Lisa Hamilton – who debuted inXtreme Beach Volleyballback in 2003 – returning to the ring under the guise of luchadora La Mariposa....

Also, Style Savvy: Fashion Forward The time has come. A Nintendo platform has a major release. And…it’s aMetroidspinoff. Ha! First up though, let’s talk Wii U. We’re gettingPokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs, so the entireRangertrilogy is now on Wii U. Also, you can pick upPoncho, Collateral Thinking, Adventure Party: Cats and Caverns, Mikrogame Rotator,Blasting Agent: Ultimate Edition, Word Logic,andZiggurat. 3DS has the big guns this week, withMetroid Prime: Federation ForceandStyle Savvy: Fashion Forward, which are both out tomorrow....

Also, Cruis’n Blast WarioWare: Get it Together!, although not a huge event for some people, is easily the most important game this week. This little series that could is technically a first party release after all! It deserves some love. But there’s a handful of other things coming to the eShop that need some attention too. NBA 2K22is arriving on September 10, which I know not everyone is jazzed about; but it’s a slice of variety!...

Remember when Epic Gameschose to remove the infamous Nitro Fistsfrom Ranked inFortnite? Well, it has been 13 days and Nitro Fists are still obtainable in the Ranked mode. Epic Games announced on May 17, 2025, that Nitro Fists and vehicles will not be available in Zero Build’s Ranked mode. While vehicles have been removed from Ranked, Nitro Fists persist. Somehow, the fists are eluding Epic Games, who have been working on a way to figure out the issue and come up with the necessary fix....

But who’s leading the development? Despite the closure of developer Evolution Studios last month,DriveClub VRhas been rated by the ESRB. We’ve seenDriveClub VRdemoed to showcase virtual reality tech, but as yet, nothing has been announced about a full release until theESRBlet the cat out of the bag. The game’s been granted an E rating and described as a “racing simulation game in which players drive a variety of cars around real world locations....

Surprised, right? Rockstar Games has a knack for breaking all kinds of records with its titles. BothGrand Theft Auto IVandVset recordsin their day and now the recently releasedRed Dead Redemption 2is following suit. While not eclipsing the same three-day sales record asGTA V(which launched on a Tuesday),RDR 2has become the biggest opening weekend ever in all of entertainment. The game managed to sell around $725 million worldwide, which is insanely impressive....

South African retailer BT Games has begun totake pre-ordersforDead Space 3. BT has been on the money with unannounced games in the past, so this is being taken to mean that an official reveal is fairly imminent. Dead Space 3discussion has beenfloating around for a while, with plot details that suggest Isaac will be stuck on a snowy planet, accompanied by a split personality. Hopefully we hear more soon. I absolutely love this series so I’m itching to have something fresh to look forward to....

Platform fighter to return with new 2.5D stylee It was a double whammy of news from Team Aether this weekend as the studio not only announced an official release date for its incoming dungeon crawlerDungeons of Aether,but it even dropped word of an entirely new sequel to itsSmash-like platform fighterRivals of Aether,scheduled to launch in 2024. From the team’s amusingly irreverent write-up, it appears thatRivals of Aether 2will retain the typical hard-hitting, platform-bouncing, multiplayer chaos of the original release, but will be transitioning from a 2D to a 3D style, (or 2....

Setting fear aside for new possibilities My entire life, I’ve been really, really sensitive to horror. I usually chalk it up to being raised in a fundamentalist Christian family where I was told from a very young age that not only are Satan and demons real, but they are coming to get me and I have to actively fight them from taking control of my mind. Either that or I’m just a little too sensitive....