Author: Valhalladidde

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Retro aesthetics are all the rage amongst many trying to recapture those warm feelings of their childhood through nostalgia tinted peripherals. We’re seeing an influx of Commodore 64 inspired wares, with dusty grey plastic housings and orange highlights, like this XTRFY K4V2 TKL keyboard from Cherry. 8BitDo is another brand dipping into retro stylings, with the 8BitDo Retro R8 Mouse – N Edition releasing across Europe.The Retro R8 Mouse joins the Retro 87 Mechanical Keyboard in grey plastic matrimony to complete this themed set. Aside from harkening back to a simpler time with aesthetics, the R8 actually looks like a…

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As we exclusively announced earlier this year, we’re finally getting our first first-person Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game – and first TMNT game in VR to boot. It’s called TMNT: Empire City, and in the new developer diary video above, you’ll get a look at some first-person parkour/traversal gameplay in this early look at the upcoming co-op action-adventure starring your favorite heroes in a half-shell.Creative director Ace St. Germain gives some insight on the first-person VR parkour mechanics of Empire City: “Movement through sewers is slower and stealthier, while above-ground movement emphasizes parkour, allowing for fast and vertical exploration. We’re…

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PS5 players can now try a highly-anticipated upcoming action adventure game for free without the need for PS Plus. As promised, Nacon has dropped a demo for Hell Is Us on the PS Store, and it’s now accessible to all PS5 players worldwide. Free Hell Is Us PS5 demo allows players to check out first chapter of the game Although Hell Is Us demo isn’t locked behind the pricey PS Plus Premium subscription, Premium users can stream it via the cloud library. Players can check out the game’s first chapter, and get a feel of its gameplay. It doesn’t look…

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Hi PlayStation Fans, I’m Melina from Ninja Theory, the actress who plays Senua in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. I’m beyond excited to finally share that Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has arrived on PlayStation 5. It’s been a long, intense, and deeply personal journey, and bringing this sequel to PlayStation truly feels like coming home. When I first joined Ninja Theory over a decade ago, I wasn’t an actress, I was working behind the scenes as a video editor and videographer, capturing the team’s process, cutting trailers, and creating development diaries. Then one day, I was asked…

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Live from somewhere in the 905.There shouldn’t be any question as to the biggest game of the week – for the first time since Wii U day 1, we can ask if you’re ready for some football as Madden NFL 26 comes to Switch 2. Yes, even more than a first party game in Drag x Drive, in Nintendo’s relatively inexpensive attempt to try something different with mouse controls on the S2. For the OG Switch, we have a few things of note: a turn based Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in Tactical Takedown, a couple of Toaplan collections for…

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When remasters of Heretic and Hexen were surprise-released last week, my interest was piqued despite myself. I played both in the ’90s and didn’t love either of them. Released in 1994 by Raven Software, Heretic was a fantasy take on Doom and it was OK. The following year Hexen offered an RPG take on Doom—by way of Heretic—and it drove me nuts.The weapons in Heretic were novel enough. I loved the shotgun-adjacent ethereal crossbow a lot, and punching gargoyles in the face with magic bracers was weirdly funny. It was always kinda cool how you could collect items to use…

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