At first glance Realm of Ink looks like a flagrant Hades clone. Look closer, squint, and yes, it still looks like a flagrant Hades clone. But after a half-dozen hours spent with this China-developed roguelite, some of its more bonkers qualities shone through, such as the flexibility of its pet system, and the fact that…
We’ve known for a while that battle royale was back on the menu in Battlefield 6, but it wasn’t until today that we learned the official Battlefield Redsec release date and time. “Redsec” is what EA’s calling its free-to-play battle royale offering. EA is still being coy about the details, but what little else we…
Dementium: The Ward launched on Steam just in time for this week’s Scream Fest, with a 40% discount that’s got to be pretty tempting for anyone who enjoyed the horror game nearly 20 years ago on the Nintendo DS. One Steam reviewer calls Dementium “a bit like Silent Hill crossed with Doom 3,” before zeroing…
During this weekend’s MCM London Comic Con, Kratos voice actor and videogames’ foremost barker of the word “boy” Christopher Judge shared his hopes for where God of War might be heading next. And in the process, he may have inadvertently hinted things are already in motion towards another entry in the series—even if Sony isn’t…
Just a few days after the surprise announcement of Halo: Campaign Evolved, the US government has co-opted imagery from the game to promote its efforts to deport millions of people from the country. The post continues a pattern by the Trump administration of co-opting copyrighted material without permission for use as propaganda. It began last…
It was bound to end this way, but even so, this one hurts. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt, the first and only battle royale I’ve ever been much good at (and thus the only one I ever really loved), is going away for good in April 2026. “During these past 4 years, we have been…
Last week, Valve issued an update to Counter-Strike 2 that, by some estimates, caused the collective secondhand market value of rare CS2 cosmetics to plummet by billions of dollars. While Valve’s official policy forbids the third party sale of its games’ cosmetics, its loot box monetization fuels a massive ecosystem of gambling and speculation—and in…
You’ve got your decorations and your novelty candy bowl with that little hand that jumps out and corrodes any trust the neighborhood’s children had in you, so there’s just one thing missing: an excuse to round out your backlog with a bunch of PC games on sale. Fret not, because Steam Scream Fest is here…
Surreal horror dungeon crawler Psychopomp teased that it would get a sequel before the credits even rolled, but I didn’t expect any news on that front for some time. Developer Fading Club just put out the first trailer for Psychopomp 2, about a year after the first game’s definitive Gold version launched. Psychopomp 1 used…
The generative AI wave has tech companies foaming at the mouth to get in while the getting’s good, and while that might be creating a disastrously huge financial bubble, it’s also changing the way companies operate. Microsoft has made it no secret that AI is non-negotiable for its employees, and it seems that EA is…