June 12, 2025

Dune: Awakening has a comprehensive base-building policy that goes something like this: Build a base wherever you want. That’s pretty much the entire policy. There are restrictions, of course: build too far out on the sand and a sandworm will show up and eat a hunk of your base—with you in it, if you’re not…

In typical FromSoftware fashion, it teased an Elden Ring Nightreign update coming this month that will add “enhanced” boss fights with zero clues as to what that actually means. Well, it turns out, those clues have been sitting in the game files since it came out, and there’s already a mod that will let you…

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s the year of Obsidian: Microsoft’s fastest-working studio already has one 2025 RPG under its belt in Avowed, and it’s putting out another one in October with The Outer Worlds 2. Completing the trifecta of 2025 Obsidian launches is Grounded 2, the odd duck of the portfolio. Not…

Sometimes a game’s appeal is immediately apparent from a single GIF. Maybe it’s a goose terrorizing a small town, or a surprisingly slick set of menus. I knew I wanted to play Spine the second I saw a looping clip of a character methodically kicking, grappling, and shooting a room full of hired muscle with…

The Eighth Trial of Aql isn’t like the seven other Dune: Awakening story quests that came before it. You can’t even get inside the trial without passing a test on Dune lore, and once you’re in the trial you’ll have to beat several more puzzles to complete it. You need to complete these trials in…

I spent three days at Summer Game Fest blasting my eyes with an endless stream of videogames, and the one I’m still thinking about is Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Tragically, I didn’t play it: Capcom shuffled press into a room to watch theater demos for both Onimusha and Resident Evil Requiem, the latter of…

Konami has shown off a new take on Metal Gear multiplayer, with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater boasting an online mode, Fox Hunt. This follows a recent tease that many, myself included, thought indicated a return of the beloved Metal Gear Online. Well, no dice, but Fox Hunt actually looks pretty cool and, more…

Code Vein 2 was revealed this weekend at Summer Game Fest, and it’s building quite a bit on the action RPG from 2019. There’s time travel and a whole arsenal of abilities that can wreak havoc on your foes. Yet I can’t stop thinking about one thing: its motorcycle. Taking place in two eras, Code…