April 2025

In the latest episode of our video series Reality Check, paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish returned to give his assessment of the monster designs in Elden Ring. While you might be unsurprised to learn that FromSoft’s opus isn’t exactly “realistic,” Naish praised the studio’s attention to detail and commitment to its fiction. Case and point: The…

I’ve seen lots of attempts to recreate the success of Rocket League over the past decade, but none have come close. Rematch might finally, actually do it. The multiplayer soccer game (‘Rocket League but with feet,’ as I’m calling it here) is having an open beta on Steam this weekend, and has already surpassed 100,000…

Base-building RTS Tempest Rising released on Steam yesterday, a full week before it was supposed to, and the publisher doesn’t see a good way out of it, so the game just has a new release date now: April 17 instead of April 24. “While the team worked quickly to address the issue, the most seamless…

A gnarly new skin for Doctor Strange is causing a stir among Marvel Rival players. The $25 “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness” skin, depicting the wizard’s zombified form from the 2022 Sam Raimi film, was teased earlier this week and released today, but some customers are miffed that the in-game skin doesn’t match…

I don’t have any way to prove it, but I’d bet money (up to $11) that over at Marvel movie headquarters there’s a big whiteboard upon which a phrase has been written and circled and underlined for the past several years: How do we make Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy powers not look goofy af??? I genuinely…

Monster Hunter Wilds just finished up its first limited-time challenge quest, where hunters could compete on a worldwide leaderboard for the fastest clear time in a hunt against a Doshaguma to earn bragging rights and cosmetic rewards. Unsurprisingly, those leaderboards were quickly flooded with cheaters posting impossibly fast hunting times. Today Capcom said it’s beginning…

I thought I was out. I’d had my fill of Baldur’s Gate 3—in a good way, mind you—and was finally free to play something else without feeling like I was shamefully neglecting what is surely the RPG of the decade. I’d made all the Tavs and Durges I’d ever wanted to play as, and then…