This past Summer Game Fest weekend was so turgid with reveal trailers I had trouble keeping track of it all. Earlier this week, we took stock of what we saw with a list of our favorite games at Summer Game Fest 2025, and now here’s a list of the biggest games that weren’t at Summer…
Squeezed in between his controversial appearance at the Summer Game Fest wearing a MAGA-style “Make FPS Great Again” hat and his subsequent apology for it, Splitgate 2 boss Ian Proulx couldn’t help himself from slipping a quick knock against a former Call of Duty developer—and former Splitgate 2 developer—in a video on X. It was…
AI image generator Midjourney could be facing some serious legal headaches, as The Verge reports that the company is being sued by Hollywood powerhouses Disney and Universal, who say the company’s unauthorized use of its characters make it a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Midjourney is a generative AI service that yacks up images based on…
2 the max. One pleasant surprise of the Switch 2 launch, beyond the advertised upgrades — free and otherwise — to various Switch games, has been seeing how some Switch games that once struggled to hit their frame rate targets have gotten a nice boost on the new console. It seems that Switch 1 games…
Troleu is perhaps the most specific job simulator game I’ve played. Inspired (loosely, I assume, but who can say) by developer andrground’s experience of Moldovan public transit, it’s a frenzy of change-counting, validating trolley passes, and hurling passengers at a demonic ticket inspector so you don’t lose your day’s wages. In my time with the…
Category: Xbox Games Showcase June 11, 2025 There Are No Ghosts at the Grand: Renovate by Day, Hunt Ghosts by Night Anil Glendinning, Creative Director and Co-Founder, Friday Sundae Summary There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is a surreal first-person mystery where you renovate a haunted hotel by day and hunt ghosts by night….
The failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and the toll it took on BioWare, has been well documented, but a new report by Jason Schreier at Bloomberg dives deep into what went wrong leading up to the game’s release in October 2024—and the short answer is, just about everything. Initially envisioned as a smaller-scale, conventional…
A mouse-t play. Listen. I’m not gonna dive into this review of Fortnite on Switch 2 with any ideas of pretending to know everything, or even understand anything, about a game that’s grown from hastily retooled battle royale to…well…it looks kind of like Roblox now, in all honesty. What on earth is going on here?…
Category: Xbox Games Showcase June 11, 2025 Aniimo: Breaking Down This Beautiful Creature Collector – Sign Up for a Closed Beta! Jovi Zhang, Executive Producer, Aniimo Summary Learn more about Aniimo, the creature collecting action-RPG revealed at Xbox Games Showcase. Aniimo is coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud as an…
I used to think arachnophobia was overblown. Okay, you’re scared of spiders, whatever, get over it. Then one day, many years ago, I saw what happened when my boss at the time—a genuine arachnophobe—came within inches of touching a small spider as he was walking through a doorway. It was as if someone had mashed…