April 2025

Tekken 8 is losing the matchup against its own community right now, with its second season being met with near-universal criticism, tanking its recent Steam review rating all the way to Overwhelmingly Negative. Currently, only 14% of reviews made in the last 30 days are positive, while its overall rating is still Mixed as Steam…

Cozy farm sim games have a problem: We still don’t have a good name for them. Sometimes I call them farm sims, but the ones that don’t actually have farms are life sims—not to be confused with Sims-like life sims—sometimes I mash them up into farmlife sims, and sometimes they’re just games like Stardew Valley…

They might eagerly go toe-to-toe with a tyrannosaur just to turn its hide into a hat, but even hunters love free stuff. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s taken only hours for Monster Hunter Wilds players to turn a newly-added bird benefactor into an object of worship. Wilds’ first big update adds the Grand Hub:…

As of this week, the official trading card game for League of Legends has a real name (it was formerly “Project K”) and a release date: It’ll be out in October as Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game. The first set, called Riftbound: Origins, will have 300 cards when it releases this summer in…

2012 was quite a year. Barack Obama was re-elected, PC Gamer selected Mass Effect 3 as Game of the Year, and Binding of Isaac studio teased its next game, an “adorably horrible” kitty-cat mutation simulator called Mew-Genics. Now it’s 2025: Donald Trump is somehow sort of in charge, BioWare seems pretty much cooked, and Mewgenics—now…

As countless industries reel from the news of major new US trade tariffs, you may not realise that one particularly close to our heart is likely to be among the worst affected: tabletop games. Over the last 15 years, give or take, tabletop RPGs, wargames, and particularly board games have enjoyed a huge boom. Factors…

I finally got around to watching Severance a couple of weeks ago and absolutely devoured both seasons. So I’m not sure whether I’ve just got Lumon on the brain, but the first thing that I thought of while playing the demo for Repose was how it gave off the same eerie vibes as my new…