Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Ninja Gaiden 4 difficulties explained and recommended difficulty
Guide Here's what you need to know about each of the four Ninja Gaiden 4 difficulty settings, from Hero to Master Ninja
How to parry in Ninja Gaiden 4
Guide Parrying in Ninja Gaiden 4 is an essential defensive option to master, so here's how to do it
How to do the Izuna Drop and Guillotine Throw in Ninja Gaiden 4
Guide Learn how to grapple with the best of them using the Ninja Gaiden 4 Guillotine Throw and Izuna Drop
"So much for realistic and grounded": New Battlefield 6 outfits under fire by some FPS players for being too "flashy," with annoyed fans dubbing the overly colorful cosmetics "meme skins"
News "Why do you want to dress as a blue crayola"
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has sold 1 million copies in under a month while the "overwhelmingly positive" Steam rating holds strong
News Sega has dropped the Persona 5 crossover in-game now, too
Somewhere at Sonic Team is a whole "roadmap of Sonic titles," says head honcho Takashi Iizuka, and the devs "think about which game to release in which year"
News Which year will a new Chao Garden fit in?
Nintendo randomly reveals a big update for Pikmin 4, adding new difficulties and special Pikmin, but bizarrely no Switch 2 enhancements
News Mouse controls are RIGHT THERE, MAN!
19 years later, Scarface game mysteriously resurfaces on Steam and Epic, but not for long: "We’ve recently entered urgent discussions with multiple parties concerning the project’s status"
News "I KNOW that the holder of the Scarface license wasn't willing to re-release the game, so this is suspect."
Every weapon in Ninja Gaiden 4 and how to unlock them
Guide Here's how to access the full arsenal of ninja tools
How to unlock Ryu in Ninja Gaiden 4
Guide The series' master ninja may not be in a starring role, but of course you still get to play as Ryu, and here's how
Is Ninja Gaiden 4 on Game Pass?
Guide Ninja Gaiden 4 is published by Xbox Game Studios, meaning PC and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can play now
Hideo Kojima made Higgs sing more in Death Stranding 2 because he enjoyed watching Troy Baker perform on Instagram during the pandemic: "he really honored me in that"
News "We're at the The Game Awards, and Hideo comes up to me and says, 'do you know why Higgs sings?'"
As Ubisoft makes The Crew 2 playable offline, Stop Killing Games lead takes a moment to celebrate: "This is due to pressure from Stop Killing Games early on"
News Back when the offline mode was announced, the lead said "I never thought it would happen before some sort of ruling from one of the consumer protection agencies"
"1 week ago we had 3 players": Steam notifies surprised dev their demo was one of the most-played during Steam Next Fest
News Desktop Defender was one of the most popular Next Fest demos
Final Fantasy Tactics director suggested new routes for The Ivalice Chronicles remake that let you save characters who die – but thinks if they could do that, they should just make a new game
News Including one who died in the game's first chapter
A new Nintendo Direct as long as the Switch 2 reveal is coming this week, but this one is dedicated to Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai's true love: Kirby Air Riders
News 60 minutes of peak incoming
Square Enix is remaking Dragon Quest 7 next as "nowadays, players are much more accustomed to games with darker stories," and the JRPG is "often said to have more dark and sorrowful episodes"
News "We felt that the game’s unique atmosphere and tone would resonate especially well with players today"
Ninja Gaiden 4 Metacritic score places it as the second-best 3D entry, but it's not even the highest-rated Ninja Gaiden of 2025
News And thanks to Ragebound, it's not even the highest-rated Ninja Gaiden of 2025
Silent Hill series producer says Konami announcing SH2 remake, f, and Townfall all at once was so fans could "feel how serious we were" about reviving the horror series
News Ironically the opposite approach Konami has taken to Metal Gear
Minecraft devs explain "players have a different appetite for challenge and difficulty" which is why the Ender Dragon isn't allowed on the overworld: "That's not a great game experience"
News "We have this guiding principle that bad things happen, but they're technically the player's fault"
Dead Cells 2 isn't happening right now because the studio behind the legendary OG roguelike is driven by "what we want to make" and not pressure from fans
News Fans of the roguelike disagree: "No one asked for Dead Cells 2. We just didn't want Dead Cells to be unceremoniously discontinued"
Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
News Mike Ybarra also took aim at the "this is an Xbox" campaign: "Whoever came up with this clearly doesn’t play games"
GTA 6 theory crafting reaches the next level as one fan thinks the next trailer's release date has been under our noses for months
News One to watch
