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For a growing part of the gaming audience, esports does not start with a match schedule or a tournament bracket. It starts with a stream. A notification pops up. A familiar face goes live. A game is already in progress. Viewers join mid-round, stay for a while, then drift away. This streaming-first habit has reshaped how people follow competitive gaming, and it has quietly created the conditions where esports betting feels natural rather than forced. Esports betting did not grow by copying traditional sports models. It grew by adapting to how people already consume streams. Watching Comes Before Planning Streaming…

Image: 4Players-Studio Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Buckle up. Retronika is a hoverbike VR game that combines shooter and racing elements. Read on for our review. You have fallen into a wormhole and are stranded on the planet Retronika. Unfortunately, only robots live here, and they have a strong dislike for the human species. With the help of your trusty robo-companion, you hop on a hoverbike and complete missions to earn money and find a way and portal out of this planet. Retronika: Review in…

If Ichicolumn, Idea Factory International, and Otomate’s Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights is any indication of things to come in otome games in 2026, we are in for a very good year indeed. This is a fantastic visual novel that has it all. The character designs are great. The story is fun. It’s both dramatic and hilarious. As for characters, I think the bachelors will easily win folks over, the supporting cast actually has personality, and the heroine is strong and smart. It’s just wonderful. Temirana is a kingdom with, well, a lot of issues. There’s a…

Street Gods, one of two Norse mythology-inspired VR roguelites coming to Meta Quest in December, emphasizes style and power fantasy over any real impactful combat.Developer Soul Assembly has a long history with combat-heavy VR titles, like the Drop Dead series, Last Stand, Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister. While it occasionally dabbles in other genres, like working on​ Just Dance VR, action games are its bread and butter. All the aforementioned games, primarily shooters mind you, received mostly the same critical response. Straightforward, albeit shallow, and fun to play with friends.The FactsWhat is it?: A Norse mythology-based roguelitePlatforms: Meta Quest 3/3S (reviewed…

The Pimax 8K X impressed us back in 2020 by offering the highest resolution visuals and widest field of view that we’d ever seen on a VR headset. The problem we encountered with that headset, though, is that it was a lot of faff to set up correctly, requiring Vive base stations and controllers to function, not to mention a beast of a gaming PC. The Pimax Crystal brings the promise of a more streamlined experience, with inside-out tracking, Pimax’s own controllers and even a tether-fee standalone mode (like the Quest 2) – but that’s something yet to be implemented.…

The Oculus Quest and Quest 2 changed the game for VR, taking the medium from the prohibitively expensive and cumbersome realm of tethered PC headsets, and propelling it into the mainstream. When the Meta Quest 2 launched, amidst the pandemic, the timing was perfect. Everyone was looking for an escape, and what better way than investing in a VR headset for the first time? Now, millions of people have already experienced the joys of VR gaming, and Meta is looking to replicate its success in a new frontier – mixed reality, or MR. It’s not just MR that Meta Quest…

Level-5 is officially two for two when it comes to games that successfully survived development hell. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time turned out exceptional, even with so many ideas packed into it. Now that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is here, it feels a bit like each mode might be one direction the final game could have took and Level-5 decided to finish them all and toss them in together. While it didn’t turn out as wonderfully as the latest Fantasy Life, it’s far better than I expected.  There are a lot of modes in Inazuma Eleven: Victory…

Image: Attack of the Fanboy Anger Foot kicks down the door of traditional shooters with its quirky humor and relentless, foot-stomping action. | Published: Aug 28, 2024 10:40 pm I didn’t know what to expect when I started playing Anger Foot, but I was pleasantly surprised. In a genre that struggles to be original, Anger Foot manages to come up with a unique visual style and adrenaline-fueled gameplay. The result is a fun shooter with a wicked sense of humor that manages to stand out. The Heart-Pounding Core Image: Free Lives Anger Foot’s gameplay is not necessarily unique. It’s a…

With an elegant design and mechanics that make it stand out, Galactic Glitch surprised me by providing many hours of fun in a genre that I’m usually not interested in. Boosting through each neon-filled area and throwing asteroids at enemies is far more addictive than I expected. Look at the Pretty Bubbles Image: Crunchy Leaf Games In Galactic Glitch, you play as a super-advanced ship created by an AI that realizes the whole universe is a simulation. Your goal is to help this AI break free and leave the simulation by exploring a glitch she claims to have found. Thankfully,…

Image: Fast Travel Games Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. The Midnight Walk stands out as one of the most creative games released this year. But the VR version comes up short in ways that are difficult to ignore. There’s nothing quite like The Midnight Walk. The Swedish studio Moonhood has pulled off something rare in today’s gaming landscape: every object in the game was first hand-sculpted from clay, then scanned in 3D, and finally animated with a stop-motion effect. This gives the entire world a…