Smash things with hammers Sacred Citadel, a beat-em-up spin on the hack n’ slash RPG series, iscoming to PlayStation Network on April 16. It’ll set you back $14.99, which is an amount of money that you earn for selling things or providing a paid service. With a cartoon-inspired look,Citadelis looking astoundingly gorgeous. As a lover of good ol’ brawlers, this is one I definitely want to check out. Funnily enough, I woke up this morning considering redownloadingSacred 2for a laugh....

From former Infinity Ward devs Words can wait. Hop toTo the Death‘s Kickstarter page and hit play on the video. Get past the few concept images and check out the 0:15 mark. Yeah. That. YES. This beauty comes from former Infinity Ward and Sony Santa Monica industry vets. Todd Alderman was a lead game designer on many of theCall of Dutygames as well asTitanfallbefore moving on to createTo the Death. Engineer Francesco Gigliotti lead the team at IW that was responsible for setting the play control standard for theCoDseries....

And it was worth the download! I’m not usually prone to playing straight-faced simulation games. You know the ones. If I ever did, it would be for a laugh rather than an actual desire to get enjoyment out of performing digital recreations of mundane tasks. Part of me feels guilty when I know perfectly well that people genuinely enjoyTrain Simulator 2013,Euro Truck Simulator 2, and the like. To bag on this software I don’t fully understand the appeal of makes me feel like a jerk....

Gwarsh! Look, if Bayonetta can make it in, the tamer Dante can too. There’s been rumblings of Dante inSmashfor a very long time. One of the key producers of the series even said that he’s game for it onceDevil May Cryhit Switch: and it did, thrice, with the re-releases of the original trilogy.With the new Fighter’s Pass in the mix, anything is possible. Butthanks to a new poll from Japanese publication Inside Games, we have a better idea of who people want to be part of that pass....

Regional releases staggered through January Animus: Stand Alone, an Android and iOS release from late last year, has done fairly well for Korean developer Tenbirds Corporation, and now it’s ready to spread its wings on other platforms. Billed as an homage to “punishing, albeit rewarding action games of a similar nature or genre” (of which the allusion is obvious), the linear boss-fight centric action game is set to arrive on Switch at various points of the year depending on where you live....

There have been previous whispers of Lenovo potentially gearing up to release a handheld gaming PC called the Legion Go that’ll compete with the Steam Deck and the ROG Ally. It has also been rumored that there will beLenovo AR glassesreleased that’ll work with the handheld. More details have emerged,courtesy of Windows Report. If the report is true, we could have the device as early as October this year, though it’ll come with a hefty $799 price tag....

Let Christmas ring with a shotgun blast If you’re lonely as fuck like me, then maybe you might be feeling like you don’t have a whole lot to do this festive season. Well, provided that you have access to a platform that carriesCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,then you’re able to celebrate the season with non-stop multiplayer mayhem, free of charge. My kind of Christmas party. As of today, anyone can jump intoCold War‘s multiplayer action simply by downloading the game on your respective system....

We’re on Chapter 4 We’re on chapter four of the Squid Sisters related prologue forSplatoon 2, and it’s getting even more interesting. To sum up the story so far, we’re roughly nine months away from the conclusion of the last Splatfest (read: the last real life public event from the first game). Callie and Marie have started recording solo material instead of group work, which has helped elevate the extroverted nature of the former, as well as her confused contempt over losing that final Splatfest....

If you readTomopop, you may already know that I am obsessively enjoying a new anime calledKuroshitsuji. Based on the manga of the same name, the show follows the adventures of dashing butler Sebastian and his young master, Ciel Phantomhive. Sqaure-Enix owns all rights to the title and has since distributed everything related to it from collectible figures to keychains. According toSiliconera, the latest addition to theKuroshitsuji-related merchandising push is a DS game....

One unanswered question has been lingering in the air since Nintendo’s bigcoming out partyfor the Wii U last week: How will the online infrastructure be an improvement over past Nintendo consoles (if at all)? Developers must know, right? Well, apparently not. Tekken Tag Tournament 2director Katsuhiro Harada didn’t sound like he had confidence in Nintendo’s new online system, during a roundtable interview at Namco Bandai HQ. When asked about how the Wii U’s online infrastructure will compare to that offered on 360/PS3, Harada responded:...

So long, EA Sports With EA Sports holding the licensing rights for the PGA Tour, it was impossible for other devs to include PGA endorsement in their games. This lack of attention to detail was a big damper on how authentic a golf game could get, though things seem to have shifted. Developer HB Studios announced the other day thatThe Golf Club 2019will feature a career mode based on the PGA Tour with official support from the organization....

After being awash in next-gen buffoonery day after day as part of my responsibilities as a Big Important Internet Guy, it’s nice to settle in with a nice pile of classic games and return to a time when men were men and two dimensions reigned supreme. 1UP’sRetronauts: Bonus Stageis an integral part of this escapist routine, especially this episode in which Jeremy “Deathgraw McSlaughter” Parish and crew discuss theMega Manseries, which eventually degenerates into a discussion almost solely about how awesomeMega Man 2is....

Another Storm Has Come There’s never been a better time to be a fan of 2D, multi-plane beat ’em ups. WiththeCapcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle,River City Girls,Fight ‘N Rage,Streets of Redalready out,Castle Crashersmaking a comeback this year, andStreets of Rage 4is dropping any second now, lovers of a good brawl almost have too many options these days. The Takeoverstands out from that crowd in a couple of ways. The first is its visuals....