Sonic the Hedgehog’s co-creator and former boss of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka, has been sentenced to a four-year suspended prison sentence and fined over $1 million for insider trading during his time atSquare Enix. By far one of the most surprising stories of 2022 was whenYuji Naka was arrested for insider trading during his time working at Square Enix, after having allegedly bought 10,000 shares in Aiming, the developer behind the at-the-time-unannounced Dragon Quest Tact mobile game....

Star Wars Jedi: Survivorplayers are finally giving the game’s best character, Skoova Stev, the love and respect that he deserves - that’s right Turgle lovers, it’s our time now. When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched back in April, one of the biggest surprises to come from it was theinternet’s collective love for everyone’s favourite Invader Zim soundalike, Turgle. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big Turgle head myself, but the love for this frog miscreant meant that Jedi: Survivor’s true best character was getting massively overlooked - Skoova Stev....

Star Wars: Outlawswas announced during the Xbox Games Showcase last week, an exciting open-world game set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in which you take on the role of lovable scoundrel Kay Vess. We then gotour first look at gameplay during Ubisoft’s latest showcase, which showed off the game’s stealth systems, reputation mechanic, and seemless space travel. While it was all very impressive, a lot of people began comparing Star Wars: Outlaws to Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2, probably because of its open world structure and the similarities between the two games' Wanted systems....

Steamis one of the most relaxed game platforms when it comes to refunds, for betterand worse. After purchasing a title, you can play for two hours, decide you don’t like it, andask for your money back. However, that means you can’t dip into a lot of games at once before deciding which one to spend your money on. Unless you have a few hundred quid you don’t mind waiting five days to get back....

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomhas added a bunch of new traversal mechanics designed to make exploring Hyrule a lot quicker and easier. Despite all of them, there still isn’t anything more satisfying than shredding down a large hill on top of your shield, a mechanic that was first introduced in the game’s predecessor Breath of the Wild. However, Tears of the Kingdom players have devised a way of using Link’s new abilities to make shield-surfing even more satisfying than it already is....

Caves are a much more prominent setting inDungeons & Dragonsthan you might expect, especially as you and your party dive in to explore or to clear it out for local towns. Surprisingly, a lot of monsters like to make caves their home, and part of that reason is because it’s much easier to corner prey in a cave. Being cornered in a cave forces parties to get creative and think of ways out, whether it’s taking down the monster that’s cornered them or befriending it is anybody’s guess....

Commander’s aMagic: The Gatheringformat where a single spell can upend an entire game. One moment every player has 20 permanents in play, engines are whirring, life totals are plummeting, and yet the game’s a single Farewell or Cyclonic Rift away from coming to a sudden crawl. Related:Magic: The Gathering: Best Board Wipes For Commander Boardwipes are a near-necessity in a multiplayer format, but that doesn’t mean you have to get swept up in every wrath that comes your way, and you don’t have to shell out money to keep your boardstate safe....

IfDisneyhas taught us anything, it’s that a villain isn’t half as intimidating and compelling without their own theme song. Almost every Disney story has a villain, and not all of them have theme songs, but the ones that do and get to sing about their evil plans are always the most memorable bad guys. RELATED:Disney VHS Tapes Worth A Fortune Today Considering how vast the collection of Disney music is, stretching back into history for almost a century now, choosing just a few great villain songs is a daunting but enjoyable task....

I want shorter games with worse graphics, made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding. Pseudoregalia hits all these points perfectly, as far as I’m aware. I don’t know exactly how development at rittzler went, but it appears that they’re a one person studio. This can go one of two ways: either they overworked and underpaid themselves to finish their passion project, or they worked on it in their free time without the pressures of a studio around or publisher behind them....

We’re entering a new era forTransformers. Hasbro’s property is old enough nowadays that my generation is nostalgic for the original Michael Bay film, let alone the action figures and animated show that took over the world several decades before. Depending on who you ask, the likes of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron are all very different characters. The success of Bumblebee brought that historical significance full circle with a film that both honoured the original designs while telling a smaller story that had fun and cracked a few jokes....

Invincibleis a TV show/comic book series that seems ripe for a video game adaptation of some kind. In late 2022, Skybound Entertainment revealed thatthere are Invincible video games in the works, although it remained extremely tight-lipped about what those projects were. Fast forward nine months, and Skybound has officially announced one of these promised video games, but any excitement that could have been built up has been firmly dampened by the reveal that it’s actually a mobile game....

Quick Links We all knowTwitch; an iconic livestreaming platform where you can watch everything from Minecraft to cooking demonstrations. There is a newcomer in the streaming game though, called Kick. So, what exactly isKick? For the most part, it functions similarly to Twitch, and many across the internet refer to it as a Twitch clone. Related:How To Stream To A Steam Deck Here, we are going to answer all of your questions about Kick, including what services it provides, when it launched, and who is on it....

The general consensus is thatXbox‘won’Summer Game Fest. While it was the best show, I’m generally wary of these events having winners (and thus losers) because it breeds an unnecessary brand loyalty that transforms what could be good natured discussions about the future of the medium into sports games, where the company in green is always better than the company in blue, or vice versa. I’m not finding fault in Xbox’s showcase because of a desire to cheer on the blue team, but because one of my more anticipated games was missing....