By Ozzie Mejia | Shacknews.com (TNS) Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Fighting Modes: Single-player, multiplayer Developer: Capcom While the Nintendo Switch represents Nintendo’s console future, its early lineup features a jump into the fighting game genre’s past. Fighting games don’t get more classic than Street Fighter II, which is why Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final […]

The news that Far Cry was dropping its exotic settings for somewhere a little closer to home was met with … well, we’ll call it backlash.

By Steve Watts | Shacknews.com (TNS) Activision’s official promotion for Destiny 2 started with one simple premise: you’d be starting anew. A mad villain had destroyed the Last City, and in the process, taken all of your player progress and hard-earned gear. The message was unmistakable: this was to be a fresh beginning for players, […]

A few things fell by the wayside in the Great Persona Madness of 2017 — and by that I mean I ignored just about everything that wasn’t Persona 5.

The Caped Crusader and the billionaire. The last survivor of Krypton and the reporter. Most of DC Comics’ heroes lead double lives, all in an attempt to blend into society as seemingly ordinary people who don masks when trouble arises.

            Alan Wake was on a massive super-sale last week because of expiring music licenses — if you missed it, well, you missed it. The game is (at least for right now) no longer available for purchase.             But I picked up a copy because I’m a big Stephen King fan, and I heard this […]

By Steve Watts | Shacknews.com (TNS) Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a very different kind of Fire Emblem game, thanks to its legacy as a spin-off during the Famicom era. Those changes plus new modernization features makes for a hybrid unlike anything in the series so far. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia […]

The Phantom Thieves of Persona 5 dedicate their time to changing the hearts of corrupt adults. It begins with Kamoshida, the volleyball coach devoted to sexually and physically abusing his students, and eventually culminates with the squad taking down malicious politician Shido, who is only concerned with imposing his cold ideology on the masses once he ascends to the role of prime minister of Japan.

Prey begins slowly, in appropriately sedated fashion, as scientist Morgan Yu awakens in an upper-class apartment. There’s a sense of fuzziness there, an inexplicable unease that something is not right. Turns out the feeling isn’t misplaced.

One morning, I woke up and had no desire to engage in my typical routine of Avengers Academy and Fire Emblem Heroes. My nigh-religious ritual dissipated in less than a heartbeat. One second I wanted to do it and the next I did not.