Heroic Hop: A New Adventure Begins

A fresh batch of games for Amazon Luna has been revealed, and the main event in June is a brand-new Masters of the Universe adventure. Arriving just in time for the new feature film, Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite is exclusive to Amazon Luna, and it offers a couch co-op experience for players. Several iconic faces--and at least one skull--from MOTU are featured in the roster, including He-Man himself, Man-At-Arms, Evil-Lyn, and Skeletor. As a reminder, all of the free games that you claim through Amazon Luna are yours to keep forever, even if your subscription expires. If you aren’t a

Pokemon Winds and Waves launches next year, and to ease the wait, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have released a new behind-the-scenes video highlighting a crucial part of the game's identity: its soundtrack.As Pokemon games have grown in scope, so too have the production standards for them, and for Pokemon Winds and Waves, a full orchestra was brought in to record the main theme. This session with the Tokyo-based NHK Symphony Orchestra was recorded, with the video below showing off just how many musicians were involved with this single piece of the new Pokemon soundtrack. Incorporating stri

HD-2D, the retro-cool art style spearheaded by Square Enix and imitated by many others, was originally built as a way to pay homage to classic Super NES-era role-playing games while also making them look distinctly modern. And to that end, it's been used exclusively for RPGs like the Octopath Traveler series and the Live A Live remake. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, then, represents the next big evolution of this concept, showing that the art style can just as easily apply to other classic genres--this time, the top-down action-adventure game.I played about two hours of The Ad

At its core, the design of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, the remake or "reimagining" of the 1996 original, attempts to blend the classic feel of Lara Croft’s movement with a more modern approach to combat and exploration.

In about 16 minutes of hands-on time with Bad Magpie, I torched flowers, added even more chaos to the mess humans left behind with a sonic bird call, and thoroughly disgruntled some innocent mice. Bad Magpie is instantly charming, and from what I played, has great puzzles to go with its chaos.