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Yakuza 3-5 Remastered Available Now

Yesterday, capping off the middle of the road E3 conference that was Opening Night Live, I said, “Japan is weird.” I said that for obvious reasons: first, I’d just watched a gameplay trailer where a man urinated mushroom. Second, it is a…

Gamescom: Opening Night Live Announcements

I swear, I talk myself into the worst possible things. When it was announced a few weeks ago, I said I would cover whatever this Gamescom: Opening Night Live nonsense was all about. Yes, I do regret saying I would cover yet…

Resident Evil Movie Reboot Confirmed

For the last 20 or so years, I’ve been avoiding the Resident Evil franchise like a bad smell, with only two games heralded as great and six million movies all over the place. It is hard to know where to start. I’ve…

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Coming To PC & PS4

Last year, for another site, I wrote a review of Suda51’s Killer7. To cut that review into a sentence: I find Japanese things weird, but when it is a Japanese man known for being weird even to Japanese people, I like whatever…

DayZ Ban Drives Australian Politician To Fight For Games

In an editorial last week, I wrote about US gun laws and the idea that removing games would be the worst way to prevent these mass shootings that America sees weekly and monthly now. The weekend prior when I was drafting my…

Hyper Light Drifter & Mutant Year Zero Free At Epic Games

It is almost fitting that while I’ve been writing here at Phenixx Gaming, I’ve written a lot about the Epic Games store: From racism, how they aren’t here to save us like a deity; or the countless games they have given away.…

THQ Nordic Purchases Multiple Companies

On Wednesday it was revealed by THQ Nordic that they are working on hundreds of projects, have their fingers in every pie, and have acquired several more pies to stick other bits in. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if THQ Nordic (formerly…

Spelunky 2 Delayed Out Of 2019

If you are like anyone else who has been alive for the last twelve years, you’ll have played a game called Spelunky. It is one of the greatest 2D games in the last fifteen years. I personally love it for its moments…

Need for Speed Heat Trailer Revealed

Since the early leaks and later confirmation, that there is a new Need for Speed on the horizon, there have been a few questions that people want answers to. Will it return to the PS2 classic format of Underground, Most Wanted, and…

Walmart Pulls Violent Games, Not Guns

Given I have an opinion on almost anything with a presence of corporealism, it may have surprised some that in the two-pieces of news I’ve written on the mass shootings last weekend; I didn’t outright say anything about my opinion on the…