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Soulframe gets brand-new gameplay showcase at Tennocon, plus a fall 2024 open beta release Announced live earlier today, Soulframe can be in your hands before the end of the year. Image credit:Digital Extremes Soulframe got a new gameplay demo earlier today, and with it an open beta announcement. All interested players will be able to jump in and try the game out sometime in fall 2024. The gameplay demo itself, which took viewers through the early moments of the game (including character creation), flowed into some combat as well as basic exploration....

Stop what you’re doing, a speedrunning dog just won a game of NES baseball by slamming a walk-off home run at SGDQ 2024 Peanut Butter the Shiba Inu just did one of the best baseball things since the Bautista bat flip. Image credit:SGDQ 2024/Sony Santa Monica In news that should put a smile on your face no matter how crappy a day you might be having, a Shiba Inu named Peanut Butter has won a game of Ken Griffey Jr....

Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct is happening today, watch it here Watch it with us. Nintendo is hosting a Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct this morning. You should hang around and watch it with us. Tune into the Direct below at 7am PT, 10am ET, and 3pm BST . It won’t be overly long, just around 15 minutes, but it promises to provide plenty of information on the game. The game is a 2D classic side-scrolling game containing a game-changing item called Wonder Flowers....

Tears of the Kingdom players keep getting kidnapped by Impa The Sheikah do have a shady history… A lot of players don’t seem to realise where you get the paraglider from in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , which has resulted in Impa kidnapping everyone. Story spoilers ahead! While Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ’s tutorial area is a lot more linear than Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau, once you get off the massive sky island there’s probably even less direction on where to go than the first game....

Tekken 8 Nina trailer shows the assassin is back and packing heat A new look and two guns. Sure! Why not. Nina got a new Tekken 8 trailer over the weekend during the Tekken World Tour finals, giving us our first look at the silent assassin in action. In the trailer, not only go we get a good look at her new design, fancy dress ready to go and twin pistols in hand, but we also catch her pulling off a few slick combos....

The Fallout TV show includes a big map of vaults, and you can now check it out as a cool interactive Google Earth overlay If you’re big into Fallout lore, this’ll be right up your irradiated and possibly ghoul-filled alley. Image credit:VG247/Bethesda/Amazon Yep, nestled amid the array of little homages to the games that inspired the series, and the array of potential little homages to the games that inspired the series we might not even know are supposed to be that , there’s big lure for geography lovers everywhere....

The Lovecraftian-themed Pokemon clone we need and deserve is in development Book of Abominations combines Pokemon battling with creepy, cryptid creatures, and we can’t wait to see more. Image credit:Magination Games While visiting EGX over the weekend, there were a lot of indie games to be playing, but none impressed me quite like Book of Abominations . This demo forged by just two developers at Magination Games left a lasting impression on me, with the Pokemon clone feeling like a careful mixture of Stardew Valley ’s art style, Pokemon’s battling mechanics and music, and the devilish nature of Lovecraft’s works all in one....

The Quarry Tarot Card Locations | Where to find all Tarot Cards in The Quarry Here’s where to find all 22 Tarot Cards, and what they insinuate might happen at Hackett’s Quarry. Ah, Hackett’s Quarry. A summer camp for kids to rejoice and for teens to ditch social media, except this year, things have taken a slight turn for the worse at The Quarry . After the kids have gone home and the camp counsellors car breaks, there’s no choice but to stay another night....

The Sonic the Hedgehog Symphony is speeding into London this September Here’s hoping they just play Live and Learn on loop. The Sonic the Hedgehog symphony is going on a world tour, with things kicking off in London later this year. Back in 2021, to celebrate Sonic’s 30th anniversary Sega hosted a free to watch livestream featuring a whole bunch of classic Sonic tunes performed by a live orchestra. Sega obviously enjoyed putting on a show like that so much that it’s decided to bring it back with The Sonic Symphony World Tour, which will have its first performance at the Barbican Hall in London this September 16, with a second date confirmed to be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California....

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will feature the best song about Donkey Kong He’s the leader of the bunch, you know him well. It turns out the best song from Mario’s history, the Donkey Kong rap, will be in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie. In a brief bit of promo for the film, Rogen was shown listening to it where he noted that “this is how my character comes out in the movie, to the Donkey Kong rap....

The Super Pocket is a glorious retro handheld that doesn’t require a lottery win to own Cheap, cheerful, and a good, solid bit of tech for the price – anyone craving some retro handheld goodness can do worse than the Super Pocket. Image credit:VG247 As a certified old man, at least in video game industry years (which aren’t that dissimilar to dog years), it should come as no surprise that I love a retro handheld....

The Witcher 3: A Poet Under Pressure walkthrough Here’s how to complete the A Poet Under Pressure quest in The Witcher 3. We now have everything we need to rescue Dandelion in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , so it’s time to complete A Poet Under Pressure . This poet has managed to land themselves in prison, and if we want to find Ciri, Geralt is - of course - going to have to break him out of there....

The Witcher 3: Count Reuven’s Treasure walkthrough Here’s how to complete the Count Reuven’s Treasure quest in The Witcher 3. Count Reuven’s Treasure is a diplomatically tricky mission in which The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt players dance around a very dangerous man. As a result, Geralt is going to have to do some sleuthing and deceiving to get what he wants from the scenario. The bonus is that Geralt does get to spend some time with Triss, which is good news if you’re planning on romancing her ....

There sure is a lot of Sekiro in PS5 exclusive Rise of the Ronin, and that’s very good Sekiro fans are seemingly getting an unexpected spiri-equel next month with Rise of the Ronin. Image credit:VG247 Most of us probably expected Team Ninja’s follow-up to the Nioh series, Rise of the Ronin , to learn the most from the studio’s earlier action games. While this may yet prove to be true when we get our hands on it, what we’ve seen so far makes it instead look more and more like an expanded version of FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice ....

They know what you want, and it’s bloody disgusting: Love and Deepspace’s latest Myth introduces Vampire Sylus One year after Sylus got his second Myth, the third one arrives to make good on all those vampire fantasies. Image credit:Infold Games. Love and Deepspace has kicked off its latest Memory Pair event today: Where Silverwings Rest , the new chapter for dragon boy - and now vampire boy - Sylus. There are new Memories to explore, a new Myth - and, of course, a new companion form for him....

Throne and Liberty: Treasure of Daybreak location A quest guide for Treasure of Daybreak quest, including map screenshots to help you out. Image credit:VG247 The vast majority of quests in Throne and Liberty are pretty straightforward, but one step in the Treasure of Daybreak quest chain is actually quite tricky. In it, you’re tasked with tracking down a hidden treasure chest in the desert with just a drawing to help you out....

Time-bending action is back: Quantum Break returns to Steam and Xbox Game Pass Pulled briefly earlier this month. Quantum Break has returned to Steam and Xbox Game Pass after being pulled from the services earlier this month. The game was pulled from both services in early April due to expiring licenses. Microsoft has apparently resolved the licensing issue, and the Xbox console exclusive is again for sale. Quantum Break is a time-amplified suspenseful title that is part game, part live action show....

Tom Burke joins Hunter Schafer in Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099, as Hideo Kojima probably celebrates It’s all coming together. Image credit:Warner Bros. Pictures Deadline shared this news , stating it didn’t have details on the characters the actors will be playing. But that won’t stop Hideo Kojima from getting super excited about this show. Unsurprisingly, the legendary video game creator has constantly reminded us of his love for Blade Runner , also stating he’s ready for Blade Runner 2099 because he’s not one of those fans who automatically think the next entry in a famous franchise will be shite....

Tomorrow’s Battlefield 6 patch somehow makes jets more useless, improves armor bar visibility in Redsec The first Battlefield 6 patch of the year is almost here, bringing a smattering of changes, including one that doesn’t quite make sense. Image credit:Battlefield Studios, EA. Battlefield 6 ’s promised, season-extending update has been officially detailed. The patch, version 1.1.3.5, arrives tomorrow, January 20 right when Season 1 was supposed to end. Part of the update’s goal is to extend the current season, until Season 2 kicks off in the middle of February ....

Tribe Nine is what happens if you mix Danganronpa with a HoYoverse RPG, an ideal timewaster for people who share my exact anime brainrot An open beta of Too Kyo Games’ maiden gacha effort has been launched as part of October’s Steam Next Fest. Image credit:VG247 It’s been a busy few years for Too Kyo Games since it was formed as an independent offshoot of Spike Chunsoft back in 2017. Even with that whole global pandemic presumably slowing down production at least a little bit, the studio has managed to ship three games since 2020: FMV mystery Death Come True, kid-friendly(ish) action-adventure World’s End Club, and acclaimed visual novel Master Detective Archives: Rain Code ....