The Fabulous Fear Machine Review: "A Gem To Be Found Within Its Dank Corners"

For many, may just be another remake of a highly revered PlayStation title, but in all honestly, it is one of the must-play JRPGs of the year. In many ways, the remake successfully retains the characteristics of the sci-fi/fantasy themes from the franchise while introducing new features that bring it up to par with modern titles. The game’s visuals have also been overhauled and inspired by ’s aesthetics, making it a very charming world to get lost in.

First reactions for The Marvels have hit the internet – and they're overwhelmingly positive. 

After nearly three years in development, Outerloop Games and Annapurna Interactive’s Thirsty Suitors was released on Nov. 2. From the beginning, the Outerloop Games team knew a few things: They wanted to make a game about relationships, and they wanted it to reflect the lived experience of its developers in telling an immigrant story. So much of the game was built out from there to create the wholly unique, genre-bending Thirsty Suitors — a game that blends its story up with cooking games, turn-based battles, and skateboarding.

Comparisons between the OG PS5 and the PS5 Slim are out, and some say the sleeker new design is «not that much smaller» than its chunkier sibling.

The latest game in the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Principle 2, is getting pretty positive reception. Developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital, the game inevitably cribs some design logic and concepts from Portal and Portal 2, seeing as they're in the same genre. Normally you'd just acknowledge the giants on whose shoulders you're standing and move on. You wouldn't hire them to make fun of you.

Star Ocean: The Second Story R strikes a good balance of retro and modernity with its throwback visuals and new combat mechanics.

introduces DLC filled with more creative bosses and a lot more time in the fan-favorite Losomn biome. While 's seemingly endless amount of levels continue to entertain the million-plus players who purchased the game since its July 2023 release, even more impressive content is coming sooner than anticipated.

Back in the early '00s, 5,000 Ft. was developing an open-world Daredevil game for the PS2 called The Man Without Fear, taking cues from the Frank Miller comic of the same name. Unfortunately, it was cancelled in 2003, but yesterday, a prototype was finally found.

We review The Princes of Florence, a tile laying and auction game published by WizKids Games. In The Princes of Florence, players are competing to earn the most victory points over the game's seven rounds.

The Apple Silicon transition is not yet completed, as the iMac Pro featuring the company’s M-series SoCs is yet to launch. Whenever it arrives, new information states that it was always slated to be unveiled shortly, but Apple’s cost concerns pushed its launch into limbo.

Of late, many platforms that manage a large amount of data, especially social media platforms, news websites, and large blog sites have expressed their frustrations at bots being used by companies working with AI to crawl these platforms and scrape their data to train large language models (LLM). Many companies are asking to be paid by AI firms now. Among them is Reddit, whose senior officials recently met with AI companies to strike a deal, however, they have not yet been able to reach any agreement. A report claims that if Reddit cannot reach an agreement soon, it can block bots from crawling its site, even if it means that the platform will get delisted from Google and Bing search engines.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.