Gaming

The Epic Games Store is luring some smaller developers away from Steam, but Valve has just made behind-the-scenes changes that might keep others from jumping ship — and could put more of their games in front of gamers who actually want to buy them. While gamers probably already know how to search for popular titles like Gears 5 and not need that tip, Valve admits that smaller games hadn’t…

We knew that Yakuza 7, or Yakuza: Like a Dragon, was going to shakeup gameplay with turn-based combat. Thanks to a trailer released at Tokyo Game Show, we have a better idea of what that will look like. The gameplay preview shows the new combat style, as well as some insane features and RPG silliness. It’s clear that Yakuza 7 will play lip-service to RPG tropes. It features multiple job…

Remember that weird ring peripheral that Nintendo teased last week? Well, the house of Mario has finally revealed what it’s for — a brand new Switch game called Ring Fit Adventure. In this fitness-focused title, you’ll be moving the ring and a leg strap — both of which house a Switch Joy-Con — to move your character through a fantasy world. Running, for instance, is…

Yakuza 7 — or to be precise, Ryu ga Gotoku 7, which means “Like a Dragon 7,” which will drop the “7” and go by Yakuza: Like a Dragon in the West for some reason — made its public debut today at Tokyo Game Show. It was my first chance to see how its controversial shift to a JRPG-style menu-based battle system will actually play out in reality. First, though, comes our introduction to…