Capture the flag is my favorite shooter mode—shoutout to Quake 2 CTF—and who knew that I’d find kindred spirits in Mac and Dan Reynolds, respectively the manager and lead singer of pop rock band Imagine Dragons? At Summer Game Fest today, the Reynolds (who are brothers) and their new studio Night Street Games announced Last…
As a lifelong genre aficionado, I am downright giddy at the resurgence of the side-scrolling brawler, which wouldn’t be happening without the likes of Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game kicking things off many moons ago. But time is a flat circle, so new Castle Crashers DLC is coming and we’re…
There’s no party like an apocalypse, and though Atomic Heart might not have been a perfect game, it certainly held a zany lens up to the world’s end with what reviewer Rich Stanton identified as “Russian Westworld” vibes. If you weren’t taken with its BioShocky aesthetic palette, though, you might want to take a peek…
It took longer than anyone likely expected, but Dying Light: The Beast—no, no, calm down, it’s not actually here, but it does finally have a release date. Developer Techland revealed during today’s Summer Game Fest showcase that the new addition to its popular series of zombie-stompers will be out on August 22. Dying Light: The…
Lies of P, an excellent little Sekiro-like, just got its first major DLC. No, really—Overture is available to purchase now, as announced during Summer Game Fest 2025‘s lineup of trailers and previews. Round 8 and Neowiz’s next expansion takes players to “the city of Krat in its final days of haunting”, as per its Steam…
Mina the Hollower speaks to me much louder than Shovel Knight ever did. Yacht Club Games’ newest retro action game is basically Zelda with a mouse, and it’s exactly the type of game a younger me would’ve played on my Game Boy Advance until the batteries died. Yacht Club Games Kickstarted Mina the Hollower in…
Explore Britannia in The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin – a bold new open-world action RPG based on the beloved anime and manga series. Developed by Netmarble F&C, this next-generation title brings a fresh storyline, vibrant 3D visuals, and dynamic gameplay to players on PlayStation 5 as the exclusive console platform at launch. Set in a…
Battleworld, in the original Secret Wars comic books, was a patchwork planet that had been smushed together by a cosmic entity called The Beyonder. As it was built from chunks of other planets, wandering every couple miles was like entering a completely new biome. (It even contained a chunk of downtown Denver.) In MMO shooter…
All I know about the Onimusha series is that they were beloved action games from a time when I was too young and dumb to play them. After watching the new trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, just premiered at Summer Game Fest, I now know I have some catching up to do. The…
Our development teams at Round8 and Team Nough are thrilled to celebrate the surprise launch of Lies of P: Overture, available today on PS4 and PS5. Overture is a prequel DLC expansion to Lies of P, transporting our puppet hero to the city of Krat as tragedy looms. On the brink of the Puppet Frenzy…