October 20, 2025

Ninja Gaiden 4 has a very specific crisis of identity: It is simultaneously too much, and not enough, like the seminal 1993 action comedy Surf Ninjas. Need to Know What is it? Incredibly bloody throwback ninja actionRelease date October 20, 2025Expect to pay $70/£60Developer PlatinumGames / Team NinjaPublisher Xbox Game StudiosReviewed on Radeon RX 9070…

It’s time to shed the last vestiges of your humanity, head out into the streets, and feast on the blood of the living. Unrelatedly, the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 release date is imminent, and those of us who have been eagerly awaiting the game since its original 2019 announcement are finally about to…

Now that Battlefield Studios has eased the pace of multiplayer unlock progression, more Battlefield 6 players are unlocking and experimenting with its cornucopia of combat gadgets. From New Sobek City to Liberation Peak, fighters are fielding ever-increasing numbers of deploy beacons, thermal grenade launchers, C4 charges, and slam mines. You’ll find very few who’ll be…

Dead Cells, released in 2018, is one of the best roguelikes ever—”a stellar action platformer with gorgeous presentation and excellent combat,” we said in our 90% review, a reputation that only grew over seven years of further development, 35 updates, and a whole spin-off studio. You might think that Dead Cells 2 would inevitably follow,…

Ever since his election, Pope Leo XIV has made no bones about AI being a central theme for his papacy. In his very first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10 the Pope framed contemporary technological progress as a new industrial revolution, and made clear he chose his papal name in tribute to…

Now that we’re a week and change into Battlefield 6, the tips and tricksters have come out en masse to help improve (or maybe just meaningfully tweak) your play. For instance, you might’ve seen a tip making the rounds about mouse sensitivity: as shared by YouTuber TorbisXD in an X post with over two million…

The Legend of Khiimori, which according to our very own Joshua Wolens is basically Death Stranding but you get to ride a 13th-century Mongolian horse instead of Norman Reedus, was meant to launch into early access in a couple weeks following a triumphant showing in the recently-concluded Steam Next Fest. I’m sorry to say that’s…