
15-Year Wait for R-Type III Remake Ruined by Hitboxes
R-Type Dimensions III finally remakes the beloved 1993 SNES shmup, but inaccurate hitboxes and collision problems are undermining a genre built entirely on precision.
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R-Type Dimensions III finally remakes the beloved 1993 SNES shmup, but inaccurate hitboxes and collision problems are undermining a genre built entirely on precision.

After two years of fans begging for a Waffle House stage in Tekken, Katsuhiro Harada finally made the pilgrimage. He bought a menu for five bucks and posed with a chair.

Tekken 8's final Season 3 character is Yujiro Hanma from Baki the Grappler, one of the wildest guest fighter picks in the series' history.

Famitsu's latest most wanted chart puts Rhythm Heaven Groove at #4 with 472 votes. GTA 6? Down at #11 with 207. Japan's taste in games continues to be fascinating.

Witchaven and its sequel are being pulled from digital storefronts on June 15. Before Duke Nukem 3D, before Blood, before Shadow Warrior, this was the Build Engine's debut.

Grinding Gear Games considered nuking Divine Orbs from Path of Exile 2 entirely, just to stop players comparing loot between leagues. They went the other direction instead.

Cloud Imperium Games' space sim has officially crossed $1 billion in crowdfunding. The game still doesn't have a release date.

Take-Two's fiscal earnings call confirmed a massive slate of sequels, remakes, and new IPs through 2029. The catch? Not a single title was named.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book has topped the Switch 2 eShop charts for two consecutive weeks, beating Pokemon Pokopia even after its full launch. When was the last time a Yoshi game did that to anything?

Physical copies of 007 First Light got into players' hands early, so IO Interactive beat the leakers to the punch by uploading the opening mission itself.

A single Forza Horizon 6 player has become the game's first community villain, with their AI drivatar beating supercars in a tricycle and terrorizing races across Japan.

Rocket League has been running on Xbox 360-era tech this entire time. Epic just announced it's leapfrogging straight to Unreal Engine 6.

SNK's fighting franchise is having a week: a new DLC fighter drops May 27 and a massive retrospective book is up for pre-order.

A Swedish pension fund argued Activision shareholders got shortchanged when Bobby Kotick rushed the Microsoft deal. Four years of legal drama later, Microsoft is writing a $250 million check to make it all go away.

Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that Chadley, the FF7 Remake trilogy's most polarising NPC, will return with an expanded role in Part 3. The internet's reaction is exactly what you'd expect.

June's Xbox Game Pass lineup has quietly grown to at least eight confirmed titles, and Microsoft hasn't even made its official Wave 1 announcement yet.

Warhorse Studios co-founder Daniel Vávra did some back-of-the-napkin math on Ubisoft's headcount, and the results are brutal.

Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, originally released for the Game Boy Advance, are the top two download-only games on the Switch eShop this week.

Xbox insider Jez Corden estimates The Elder Scrolls 6 is still years away, with a likely launch window of 2028-2029. If accurate, Skyrim's sequel will arrive nearly two decades after the original.

Valnet's new contracts at TheGamer mean writers earn nothing if their articles don't hit a minimum view count. The company was founded by the former owners of Brazzers and Pornhub.

Phantom Blade Zero keeps the dark fantasy atmosphere and boss fights but ditches the punishing difficulty loop that pushes so many players away from the Souls genre.

The latest Switch eShop charts are in, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is still sitting unchallenged at number one. The rest of the top ten is almost entirely Nintendo first-party staples.

Three out of four fans polled want Destiny 3, but Bloomberg reports the sequel isn't in active production, and the budget required may be the reason why.

FuRyu's EXSTETRA, a fantasy RPG built entirely around kissing as a core battle mechanic, is finally escaping its 13-year Japan exclusivity with a global remaster launching on PC this July.