Author: Zach Barbieri

JDM: Japanese Drift Master, at its core, is a drifting game. I love drift racing, one of my favorite racing games is the Ridge Racer series, and both games share some of the same DNA. There was an expectation that I would love the Drift-centric experience presented in front of me, but this didn’t hook me in the way I was hoping it would, and not for the reason you might think. This is a trip across the Japanese countryside, and one of the best in racing form that we have gotten, and so it feels a shame that your…

Artificial Intelligence has been part of pop culture for a long time, from films like the Kubrick masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey to games like RGG Studio’s first title, Binary Domain. Capcom, however, has found itself at a unique crossroads in time with its upcoming 2026 title, Pragmata, which features a main antagonist that is a rogue AI on the moon, leading to the struggles that the spacesuit-wearing protagonist and his young companion face. Manly, that since the game was concieved, AI has become a major part of the news cycle, which the developers had no idea would be the case.…

Fortnite and Epic Games has given full details of its crossover with the extremely popular Netflix series K-Pop Demon Hunters, which is set to fully launch this week. All three members of HUNTR/x, Rumi, Mira, and Zoey, will be added to the game as skins available for purchase; however, the characters will also start in a timed game mode, as well as pop up in the core battle royale experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipctlvNePk Hoard Mode: Demon Rush launches tomorrow, October 2, and will be available until November 1. It will see players team up with the members of HUNTR/X in a new…

*Spoilers for Silent Hill f below. Early on in the third distinct part of Silent Hill f, Hinako awakens in front of the Chizuruya General Store, where she had had a confrontation with several monsters prior in the game. Here, while the player is tasked with following Shu you are given a pretty big amount of freedom to explore and backtrack. Across the street from the General Store, you can also backtrack to the alleys you traveled through to get here initially, when previously you needed to travel around the truck blocking the road. Traveling this way, you will eventually…

*Spoilers for Silent Hill f below. Shrine Path After the showdown outside the Chizuruya General Store, Hinako passes out, waking up later inside a mysterious shrine with no idea how she got there. When the player takes control of her yet again, there is not much they can do here, as much of the shrine is unlit., Everything seems to be guiding you forward towards two Inari statues and some offering plates and offerings. The basic goal here is to match up the offerings with the Sanbo, or Shinto offering pedestal, and go with it. We are not going to…

*Spoilers for Silent Hill f contained below. This guide used the hard difficulty for puzzles. As you follow the Fox Masked Man, he eventually guides you to a sealed shrine that has a lock on it with some interesting symbols, with one dial that appears to be missing. Hinako might make a comment that these seem familiar to her, and this is because they should be with the player, having passed several walls of Ema plaques, where you could interact with to see symbols on the back of them. This is the most obvious direction to try to crack the…

*Light spoilers for Silent Hill f contained below. This guide was completed using the Hard Puzzle difficulty. Following the confrontation in Silent Hill f at the Chizuruya General Store, Hinako passes out only to wake up in a mysterious shrine with no real indicator as to how she got there. The shrine, while big, has nothing of particular note outside the twin Inari statues in front of her and the offerings that are between them. This serves as a matching puzzle that Hinako will need to be able to solve to leave this shrine and continue on with her waking…

EA has confirmed that it has agreed to be acquired by an investment group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Firm (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The transaction is valued at approximately $55 billion, making this the largest all-cash sponsor private investment in History. The terms of this agreement state that the group will buy 100% of EA with PIF rolling over the 9.9% stake in the company they already have. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share, which represents a 25% premium on the Stock price at the close of business on September 25, which was $168.32, as…

Silent Hill f, the latest installment in the long-running Japanese horror series, has sold over 1 million copies across both physical and digital sales on the official release date of the game. The publisher behind the series, Konami, confirmed this news via a press statement, as well as on the franchise’s Japanese Twitter account page, thanking “everyone who played” for exceeding the million copies shipped mark just a day after its September 25th release. Konami did not distinguish how many of these sales were on September 25 versus how many were digital deluxe editions, which granted players early access to…

*Slight Spoilers for Hotel Barcelona Below Anybody who has played a game with Suda 51’s involvement knows that costumes are usually a big part of it. The obvious example of this is Lollipop Chainsaw, but No More Heroes has a good selection of good looks to pick from, too. Hotel Barcelona, for its part, similarly has a roster of outfits that the player can choose between, with them being equippable from the mission select screen, along with the melee and ranged weapon choices, before jumping in. These outfits are part of Justine’s possessed form rather than those of her standard…