Christian Thoma

While the attention this week has been firmly fixed on the Game Awards, there are plenty of other showcases happening where players see upcoming games that can't afford to advertise during the awards show.

Congratulations to Astro Bot for winning the 2024 Game of the Year at the Game Awards.

The 2024 edition of the Game Awards are over and while some may be interested in debating whether Astro Bot deserved to be Game of the Year I'm already focused on all the future titles.

December has rapidly turned into the second most-exciting month for video game news (after June and all the shows that arrive with Summer Game Fest).

The reveal of the 2025 roadmap for World of Warcraft focused a lot of attention on the new activities in Undermine in The War Within patch 11.1 as well as the tease of player housing at the end of the timeline.

The War Within Season 1 continues and we’ve another full circuit of all the World Bosses with the return this week of Shurrai Atrocity of the Undersea in Hallowfall.

World of Warcraft has maintained a solid content cadence ever since the start of Dragonflight and the recently-revealed 2025 roadmap for The War Within demonstrates there's no suggestion it'll stop any time soon.

World of Warcraft has maintained a solid content cadence ever since the start of Dragonflight and the recently-revealed 2025 roadmap for The War Within demonstrates there's no suggestion it'll stop any time soon.

The Game Awards air this Thursday night and although we're still wincing at some of the snubs excitement is starting to build.

Trinity Fusion is the most recent game I’ve played to completion, and it’s quite the fun one. A metroidvania more akin to Metroid than to the (Castle)vania, it’s about sci-fi worlds that need to be merged in order to be saved — and you’re one of the few with avatars on all four of the worlds and therefore you get to play the hero. The main deviation from the standard formula is that it also embraces the rogue-lite formula popularized by games like Hades. Explore, die, repeat — but with the opportunity to play as different a person each time.

The story is a little light and sometimes it felt like the game did a poor choice of explaining what your current task was, but the gameplay, graphics and sound are amazing. I struggled with it more than typical because of its rogue-lite nature — having to reset each time I died ran counter to my standard metroidvania tactic of banging my head against a boss until I finally got it down — but eventually I was able to defeat the big bads and save the worlds. I’m looking forward to revisiting it when more free DLC is released (there have been two so far), but now I’m content to play something else for a bit.

While I download Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ let’s answer some questions!