August 2025
Peak players have dust devils and deadly cacti to fear in its Mesa Update coming next week
Everyone’s laughing until someone gets whisked away by a dust devil with a backpack full of food. This is how I imagine Peak’s Mesa Update is going to go when it drops next week. The goofy co-op climbing game will add the mesa biome to the rotation on August 11 along with new items, badges,…
The best Battlefield 6 maps so far
The Battlefield 6 open beta is here, and it’s almost actually open. We’re on day two of early access, and the lineup of modes and maps for weekend 1 is set. It’s just Conquest, Breakthrough, and Domination on the menu for now, playable on three maps: Liberation Peak, Siege of Cairo, and Iberian Offensive. Three…
Diablo boss Rod Fergusson is leaving Blizzard for a ‘new adventure’
Five years after leaving Gears of War studio The Coalition to take the reins of the Diablo series at Blizzard, Rod Fergusson is calling it a day. “After five years driving the Diablo franchise with four big launches, it’s time to step away from Blizzard/Microsoft, sword in hand, and see what’s next,” Fergusson wrote on…
After flying around the world to play my most anticipated action RPG, I’m convinced Black Myth Wukong was just an opening salvo for big budget Chinese games
PC Gamer once declared virtual toilets the secret to understanding the unspoken priorities of a game and the people making it, but I’d argue virtual ladders have even more to say. If you approach from the top, does it wrest away control or let you Wile E. Coyote yourself right off the ledge? Does the…
2-time Arima Kinen champion Grass Wonder dies at 30
1997 Japanese Best Two-Year-Old Colt award winner and Umamusume inspiration Grass Wonder has died at the age of 30, Thoroughbred Daily News reports. The American-bred, Japanese-trained thoroughbred was diagnosed with age-related multiple organ failure at Japan’s Big Red Farm, where he had been spending his last years in retirement. (Image credit: Cygames) Grass Wonder debuted…
Wildgate review
The tragedy of Wildgate is that it might be too clever for its own good. Although it’s a hero shooter on its surface, Wildgate is really a competitive ship battler. As you race other players to gather resources and build a better spaceship, it feels like playing as a unit in a sci-fi RTS. It’s…
Tron: Catalyst & John Wick Hex Dev ‘Bithell Games’ Makes “Majority” Of Staff Redundant
“Today we are less”. Bithell Games, the developer behind John Wick Hex, TRON: Identity, and TRON: Catalyst, is sadly making “eleven jobs” at the studio redundant. Studio founder Mike Bithell shared a message on Bluesky earlier today stating that his studio — which he founded in 2013 following the release and critical success behind Thomas…
Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac Is A Big Glow-Up On Switch & Switch 2
Compared to the GameCube and PS2 release. Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac — which was announced last week in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase — looks pretty darn good. And just in case you’ve forgotten what the game looked like on GameCube (or PS2), then Bandai Namco has you covered. The publisher put out a comparison…
Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff
The videogame industry took yet another shot to the gut today as Bithell Games, the developer of John Wick Hex and Tron: Catalyst, announced that it is laying off 11 employees after being “unable to secure a new larger scale project.” Studio founder Mike Bithell said the layoffs represent “the majority of our full-time staff.”…