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…
Beauty, work, and home essentials — it’s all available on Amazon without costing a fortune. The products below are gaining a ton of steam and, lucky for you, happen to be dirt cheap as well. Scroll down and check out some of the most popular finds that shoppers are currently adding to their carts.…
Sony argues that PlayStation buyers cannot own digital games because multiple customers can obtain the same title from its online store. The claim stems from an August 21 court filing and response to a class action lawsuit against Sony, alleging that its digital store failed to disclose enough to…
Fable's main quest will take around 20 hours to beat, Playground Games has confirmed. Associate game directors Will Kennedy and Craig Littler shared the estimated length for the 2027 fantasy RPG during a group Q&A attended by Polygon at gamescom 2026. While the Xbox and Playground say Fable will…
There’s a reason handymen and home professionals seem to have a solution for every weird little thing that can go wrong around the house: They’ve seen it all. Whether it’s oddly specific tools that solve oddly specific problems, unconventional storage hacks that declutter your space, or brilliant…
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans think they've spotted the real-life inspiration for Jason and Lucia's Vice City apartment – but don't expect to ever visit it yourself. Grand Theft Auto players have proven time and time again that they will go to the ends of the earth to learn the smallest details about…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe has delighted readers ever since his first book, Elantris, released more than two decades ago. Now, it spans over 20 books with more in the works and even a new movie and television series looming based on the immensely popular Mistborn and Stormlight Archive…
2026’s best PS5 game, and the best game of the year in general, is free with a PlayStation Plus subscription for roughly the next 48 hours. In other words, free for August 30 and August 31, but come September 1, it will no longer be free. If claimed in time, it is a permanent addition to your PSN…
Courtesy of Nintendo One video game guaranteed to dominate any auction it appears in is Nintendo’s Mario Bros. The 1986 game that brought Mario’s arcade game onto the Nintendo Entertainment System and helped to cement the company’s signature franchise is well known for being a highly prized piece…