Latest articles by Scott McCrae
"So much of DOOM’s soul is down to heavy metal": FPS legend John Romero says "without Ozzy and Black Sabbath, I am not sure it would have been the same"
News "Metal gave a voice to a whole generation of kids that didn’t fit in for one reason or another"
In honor of Ozzy Osbourne, Double Fine is giving its heavy metal action game Brutal Legend away for free for 666 minutes
News The game features three Black Sabbath songs and three of Ozzy's solo tracks
I hope you weren't hoping to hear Hatsune Miku talk to SpongeBob in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, as none of the crossover characters will be voiced: "This is just unacceptable for a $70 game"
News This also extends to the Sonic universe DLC characters like the Werehog
Donkey Kong Bananza players have managed to blow it wide open in less than a week, and the speedrun potential is bananas: "It's wild how much of the game you can bypass with the right tricks"
News You're missing out on some banger tunes though
Donkey Kong Bananza credits reignite a popular Mario Kart World fan theory that the beloved gorilla is getting his own expansion in the Switch 2 racer
News Two of the Mario Kart's uncredited voice actors have roles in Bananza
Obsidian says Grounded isn't going anywhere after Grounded 2 releases this month: "There's a strong desire on our side to make sure that our games are preserved"
News The news comes as Stop Killing Games makes the headlines
Donkey Kong Bananza wins the praise of Donkey Kong Country artists who also had the job of redesigning the ape 31 years ago: "Reunited at last!"
News While the man behind his 1994 redesign has said "it's FANTASTIC!"
In some of the year's best Twitch content, Peak devs infiltrate streamer lobbies and possess the unholy plush BingBong: "Sentient BingBong you are so special to me"
News "we played peak today and and bingbong CAME TO LIFE"
Donkey Kong Bananza player spends over 4 hours pushing its destruction to the absolute limit by smashing up an entire level: "Well, that took a while"
News And that's one of the smaller levels too
New Princess Peach actor revealed, weeks after Nintendo got heat for breaking the recasting news to her old actor of 17 years on Mario Kart World's launch date
News "I have so much respect for all of the Peaches that came before me, especially the one I grew up with"
Peak devs update the game with an incredibly unfair new rule: "You no longer win if you die," ruining my chances of ever making it
News The devs have also updated how the in-game timer works because "I saw a Reddit post where one player got 1;00;00 and another got 1;00;01 and it made me sad"
A Doom-based Fallout fan game has emerged after a 3-year absence, and it looks like the best Fallout in over a decade
News Rip and T.E.A.R.
27-year Capcom veteran who worked on everything from Resident Evil to Devil May Cry is finally revealing his studio's new action RPG this year, but warns it's unlike anything they've made before
News "It’s not a good thing to give people the wrong idea of what to expect"
Elden Ring pacifist beats the game without attacking any of the RPG's 200+ bosses, leaving the community to wonder: "When do we get to a point where there's nothing else to do?"
News I get it, I suck at Elden Ring – stop rubbing it in...
Pokemon Presents is having its longest showcase in two years this week, so here's how to watch it
News I wouldn't get my hopes up for Generation 10 though
My Donkey Kong Bananza playthrough is being haunted by the remains of numerous iconic enemies and allies from classics like Donkey Kong Country
News It's good to know that spider got buried with his trainers though
Don't expect to blast your way through Ghost of Yotei: "Blades are the heart of the fantasy"
News "Firearms have a role, and they are incredibly deadly when used at the right time"
Ex-Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead describes making landscapes in a way that sounds an awful lot like a Shrek metaphor: "It becomes like an onion skin, where we think outwards"
News "You've got to learn the core gameplay loop of what you're making"
Not even Dollman's constant "guilt-tripping" and the pressure of social media was enough to stop this Death Stranding 2 player from spending an hour hauling a worryingly large pile of dead bodies "for science"
News Void co.
I'm glad to announce Donkey Kong Bananza has the Super Mario Odyssey sauce: it's taken less than a day for players to skip a boss fight entirely with speedrunning tech
News He's bigger, faster, and stronger too
Clearly not too busy with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, Avatar game, and more, Space Marine 2 devs are teasing something new, and fans think it's a Hellraiser title
News Who you callin' Pinhead?
Donkey Kong Bananza finally confirms who voices DK in the Switch 2 era, and it's the exact Mario Movie actor we all thought it was
News Pauline's voice is new too, but seemingly only for her teen version
Wordle's popularity led to a surge of downloads for an app of the same name that released 5 years before: "It changed my life forever"
News "A lot of people searching for his game went to the App Store and downloaded mine instead"
