Category: Cultured Vultures

Is there a genre better suited for the Switch than the RPG? It’s always good to sit down and lose feeling in your legs as you watch the levels go up. The hybrid console has helped Fire Emblem and Xenoblade become more popular than ever, the Octopath Traveler games have “streets won’t forget” written all…

There are new games that take after the games of yesteryear, and today we’re going to look at some of them. Now, I already know what you’re typing in the comments, and you’re dead wrong.   Blood Typers One of the most outlandish but genuine strokes of genius by SEGA was The Typing of the…

The Super Nintendo might be the most literal console name ever. Nintendo made it, and it was pretty super at doing games. It was also pretty super at doing games it really had no right to even try, what with it basically being 16-bit tech from 1990 and all. We’ve already talked about SNES games…

FPS games. Platformers. Cronenberg-type games. Basically every genre you can think of had their breakout decade in the 90s. But if there was any genre that really flourished more than Beanie Babies but just kept on growing and growing instead of becoming landfill, it was the RPG. Don’t believe us? Take a look at every…

If you didn’t know, Google and Android (and iOS for that matter) are rather awful for harvesting your data. They’ll usually collect your location, voice assistant interactions, calendar activity, payment information and diagnostic telemetry data. Back in the day, many people would probably have described software collecting that much information as spyware, though today it’s…

After a previously curtailed closure back in 2021 thanks to fan backlash, Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PlayStation Store will now be phased out for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The closure will begin in August 2026 for PlayStation 3 users in Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua, with additional Latin American and Middle Eastern…

We’ve been wondering when exactly physical gaming will lose its long battle against digital, but we now seem to have an official date. Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it will discontinue physical game disc production for all new games released on PlayStation consoles from January 2028. After that date, all newly released PlayStation games…

The PlayStation Vita was a failure. For all intents and purposes, it’s a dead system thanks to terrible support from its creators, who announced that they would be ceasing all production of the handheld in 2019 after quietly distancing themselves from it over the years. The downfall of the Vita has as much to do…

Rockstar Games has revealed the contents of the Grand Theft Auto VI Ultimate Edition, and it sure does appear that a whole lot of content is being gated behind a paywall. The Ultimate Edition includes a range of exclusive vehicles, weapons, clothing options, properties and activities that become available throughout Jason and Lucia’s story. Strangely,…

In surprising news, Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will not be getting a physical disc when it launches this November. Instead, the physical cases of the game will simply come with a code in a box to redeem on digital storefronts. It’s quite the shock for a series that has more or…