Nintendo is hosting two Directs in the coming days, and it’s pretty much all I’ve been thinking about since the announcement. On Tuesday, September 8, it’s The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, followed by a more general Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, September 9. While we wait, it's…
Tim Schafer, game designer and founder of Psychonauts developer Double Fine, gave a strong response after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring efforts this summer. Speaking with Bloomberg's Jason Schreier in a September 2026 interview, Schafer admitted that he knew…
A PS5-exclusive horror game has been announced, and it is set to release on October 26. Whether the horror game will come to Nintendo Switch, PC, or Xbox Series X sometime after October 6 remains to be seen, but when it releases, it will only be on PS5. And only on the PlayStation Store, as it…
(Image credit: Bulkhead) The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. Steam concurrents are a useful metric for gauging a game's general popularity, but they paint an incomplete picture. They're a single data point, yet have become the flimsy scaffolding on which the…
gamescom has provided a second response regarding the theft of developers’ equipment during its event, offering an apology for its initial reaction to the ordeal. On August 28, 2026, indie developer Ryan Laley uploaded a video to X/Twitter claiming that all of his laptops had been stolen at…
Plenty of things are terrifying about a man in a boiler suit creeping up behind you, but it's hard to be scared of Halloween: The Game's Michael Myers when he strolls around the neighborhood with all the urgency of a retiree on a golf course. Admittedly, my early experience with the latest…
Murals begins with you waking up in a twisted fairy tale castle, with no memory of how you got there. As The Hero, you team up with a sentient sketch named Loaf who informs you that not only do you not have a way out, but a bunch of hostile creatures called The Distorted are also wreaking havoc.…
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says a physical-disc future is possible if Sony lets third-party manufacturers press game discs. As physical media continues to be phased out in favor of an all-digital future, many still hope for a path forward. Of course, Sony has confirmed it will stop…
The “hidden movement” genre of board games is one of my favorites and I still remember where I discovered this type of game. I was watching Wil Wheaton’s “Tabletop” series, when the game of the week was “Fury of Dracula”, a game where one person assumes the role of Dracula, spreading terror and…
The Labor Day weekend is upon us (in Canada and the US, anyway, and we'll be sure to spare a thought for our UK colleagues who will be working on Monday) and holy cow, it is about time. If you find yourself in need of something to do, here's a thought: Play Civilization 7, because it's free to play…
For the past 20 years, Roblox games have been very recognizable. The simple game loops with blocky avatars were an unmistakable part of its identity. For kids, that was part of the appeal. The games looked like an extension of their toy chest. As the platform grew, so did the variety of games.…
A new collection of NES and SNES games has been stealth-released on Nintendo Switch and PS5. Oddly enough, there is no Nintendo Switch 2 version. Meanwhile, in the other direction, there is no PS4 version. This isn’t an issue for the users of the former thanks to backward compatibility, but those…
HBO MaxIt goes without saying, but a key element of any successful superhero is the costume. It’s pretty hard to imagine Spider-Man becoming such a cultural phenomenon without the eternally cool webbed costume designed by Steve Ditko, and had DC Comics gone with Bob Kane’s original red-and-black…
Over the past few years, I’ve discovered just how much I love Warhammer 40k. My history with the tabletop game is long and arduous, though it was only with the release of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 that it really sunk its grimdark talons in me. I’m now four armies deep into the hobby - Blood…
(Image credit: Rockstar Games) Officials with Miami-Dade County have held talks with Rockstar about using facilities and landmarks in the county to promote the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, according to a recent report by The Miamian, saying it could represent "a unique opportunity to generate…
The Blood of Dawnwalker is out in the wild, and players worldwide are falling in love with it. It has performed remarkably well in the review stakes (including in my comprehensive review), and it’s blowing up as one of the year’s top breakout games. The studio behind it, Rebel Wolves, hasn’t made…
(Image credit: White House) The White House, the epicenter of power in the most powerful nation in human history, has rolled out a new online arcade on its website. And yes, it is every bit as racist, repugnant, and creatively bankrupt as you'd expect. We'll set aside the question of "why?" for now…
Official Tetris pages have responded after the Trump administration launched a clone video game called 'Build the Wall.' The Tetris Company joined the backlash after Donald Trump's White House published its Arcade.Gov website today. Amongst a line of games on offer, which includes a Flappy Bird…
Among the many updates, announcements, and reveals dropped during Sony’s September State of Play was news that publisher/developer Pearl Abyss would be expanding its already massive open-world action-adventure Crimson Desert with a content-packed DLC. Dubbed Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown,…
Despite Sony’s double State of Play this week being a little bit of a dud — though did you catch the hard-as-hell new Resident Evil clip at the very beginning? — the trailer-sphere nonetheless kept chugging along as it always does. We got a new look at Street Fighter and a bunch more trailers ahead…
Ahead of BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard has started teasing the announcement of a new entry in the StarCraft series. Since being introduced in 1998, StarCraft has likely gone on to become the most influential and popular RTS franchise in history. Despite this, Blizzard has done very little with StarCraft…
A forgotten PS1 game has just received an official re-release, courtesy of Japanese developer Hamster and its Console Archives series. The game in question hails from 1997 and was originally a PS1 exclusive at launch. The following year, though, it came to the Sega Saturn. Then, in 2008, it came to…
After observing a hands-off presentation at Summer Game Fest, I had a couple of issues with Crazy Taxi: World Tour. The controversial use of AI during the game’s development was obviously a factor, but SEGA has since confirmed that nothing seen in the game was made with AI. Regardless of whether…
Six years ago, Marvel fans finally received the kind of superhero game they had wanted for years: a large-scale action experience built around some of the most recognizable characters in comics. It promised an original story, cooperative play, regular content updates, and the chance to step into…