TechRadar Verdict Onimusha: Way of the Sword is easily the best entry in the samurai demon-hunting franchise, delivering an immersive, cinematic, and epic experience in both its highly detailed cutscenes and combat encounters. It has a few tedious and repetitive segments, particularly due to the…
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be perfect for 10 seconds. To write the perfect sentence. One that sings, captures hearts, evokes emotion. To make the perfect play, to eradicate the gap between body and mind and live a complete life in an instant of pure movement. To be, for just a…
Ever since I first got infected with Porphyric Hemophilia in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or ran amok in Los Angeles in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, I’ve been patiently waiting for an open-world vampire RPG that I could really sink my teeth into. Frustratingly, despite numerous…
Sony has confirmed not one but two PlayStation State of Play presentations will air later this week. As part of a PlayStation.Blog post, the company revealed the first of the two showcases will start streaming this Thursday, September 3, at 6am PT / 9am ET / 3:00pm CEST / 10:00pm JST. It's promised…
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first…
Stellar Blade: Complete Edition is officially coming to Switch 2 in 2026 and, to help with the wait, we're sharing over five minutes of gameplay from this upcoming version and our chat with DongKi Lee, CTO at Shift Up, about what it took to bring this action-adventure title to Nintendo fans. We had…
Warner Bros.Directors and fans alike dream of seeing their passion projects made with unlimited budgets, but constraints often place valuable boundaries on creative minds that otherwise threaten to run off the rails. Knowing what you can’t do lets you focus on what you can accomplish — and would…
Image Courtesy of Rebellion/Mattias Linda The PlayStation Plus Essential game lineup for September 2026 is more packed than usual. Instead of the typical trio of titles, PlayStation giving players four games this month: Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life, and Chained Echoes. And…
Stage Tour winds back the clock to the golden era of plastic controller music games. Like its predecessors, it also boasts a booming soundtrack jam-packed with licensed songs from some of the world’s most revered rock and metal artists, and we’ve got the updated setlist for you. The whole tracklist…
Steam has a new free PC game without a single negative review. In other words, the free Steam game has a 100% approval rating. It’s a small number of reviews and, of course, the expectations for a free game on Steam are much lower than any given premium game releasing on the Valve platform. That…
Is this just a game to you? Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform. This brilliant example of game design prowess is technically eligible for awards show consideration Credit: Pocket / Kyle Orland The relatively recent rise of AI-assisted coding tools…
A 100-hour open-world RPG is free with PlayStation Plus for approximately the next 24 hours. Where some free PS Plus games are exclusive to certain tiers of the Sony subscription service, this is not the case here. This time the game is free to all subscribers on all tiers: Essential, Extra, and…
A streamer who was invited to see Grand Theft Auto VI early has shed some more light on certain gameplay features which were not elaborated upon in the Extended Look. Streamer ElRubius, who was invited by Rockstar Games to see a hands-off early look at Grand Theft Auto VI earlier in the year, has…
A classic 007 game has been given the PC remaster treatment, and no it’s not that one. Hot off the heels of this year’s 007 First Light, a certain kind of cultural reappraisal is going on with James Bond games at the moment. Whether that’s the original GoldenEye 007 or some of the later Pierce…
Courtesy of Scopely Explore Over the years, Pokemon Go has released quite a few rare, limited-run Pokemon designs. These include event exclusives like the Fossil Museum Excavator Pikachu, along with older exclusives like the clone Pokemon. Many of these remain the rarest and most elusive Pokemon in…
The animated movie Pokémon: Wild Card was announced during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Pokémon World Championships. "For the first time in seven years, a new Pokémon movie is on its way," The Pokémon Company President and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara said, and highlighted that the movie's…
The 2026 Pokémon World Championships ran simultaneously with the first official Pokémon fan convention, PokémonXP, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a slew of exciting announcements during the Pokémon World Championships closing ceremonies. Here's everything announced at the 2026 Pokémon World…
Courtesy of The Pokemon Company This week has been huge for Pokemon fans, both on the competitive and general fan front. Starting on August 28th, thousands of trainers gathered in San Francisco for the 2026 World Championships and the first-ever Pokemon XP fan convention. Competitors faced off…
HBO MaxLanterns has kept viewers on their toes with its timeline-hopping story, which takes us back and forth between 2016 and the present day. But even by 2016, Lanterns dropped us in the middle of Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart’s (Aaron Pierre) story, following the unlikely duo as…
The bougiest home isn't necessarily the most expensive one — it's the one in which someone pays attention to every last detail, from the base of the toilet to the spoons in the sugar bowl. Thoughtfulness reads as luxury, even when the price tags say otherwise, and this list is full of finds that…
Ned Luke, the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5's Michael De Santa, said people who think Grand Theft Auto 6 looks too much like GTA 5 are "out of their minds." Luke has remained an important figure in the GTA community since he first appeared as one of three playable professional criminals in the…
Skip to content Can’t stop the signal Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more. This weapon, seen in a newly revealed Portal 2 prototype, was previously seen in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 footage released by Valve. Credit: Valve / HL_Alyx_NoVR Here at Ars, we’re…
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Nintendo Switch 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Civilization VII, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, August 30, below. Jurassic World 4K 7-Movie…
With Xbox gearing up for a huge next 12 months, filled with in-house game releases and a possible next-generation console, Microsoft has been hard at work building up the Xbox Game Pass portfolio. Bolstered by new day-one titles like Gears of War E-Day and stellar third-party games like the newly…