As strange as it is, I was really on board for Shadow Labyrinth. I try to maintain a why not policy when it comes to games, so when someone asks, “Why would Bandai Namco make an ultra-dark ...

Amazon Prime’s Secret Level gave us the dark sci-fi Pac-Man riff “Circle,” a short-form experiment with Alex-Garland-meets-Pixar vibes. This was quickly confirmed as a backdoor pilot for Bandai ...

Shadow Labyrinth is one of the strangest takes on a classic arcade series in a long time, and from the fifteen minutes we played of the game so far, it seems to be a success. Pac-Man began in arcades ...

Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic Pac-Man. As Swordsman No. 8, awoken by a floating yellow orb, PUCK, on a mysterious planet amidst relics of ...

Gone are the days of the cute little Pac-man Puck. Another surprise announcement at The Game Awards was a new take on the Pac-man franchise. Shadow Labyrinth is brought to us by Bandai Namco and ...

The gameplay trailer showcased new mechanics. One is the Gaia form, during which the protagonist and Puck merge into a large, monstrous form. This allows them to consume defeated enemies to gain items ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook During The Game Awards, Bandai Namco revealed Shadow Labyrinth, a new Pac-Man inspired game that ...

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Shadow Labyrinth from developer Bandai Namco Studios sits on the extreme end of the bar when it comes to reinventing a franchise. Shadow Labyrinth is...a Pac-Man game. That sentence alone might throw ...

45 years after the release of Pac-Man, Bandai Namco is finally answering the age-old question: “How would it play as a 2D Metroidvania?” Surely you’ve all been wondering that, right? Well, ask no more ...

There's a moment about 20 minutes into Shadow Labyrinth, a new video game that takes place within the Pac-Man universe, that sets the tone for what's to come. Pac-Man, here called Puck, sheds its ...