You can keep “jump”, the best verb in videogames is “examine”. When an adventure game like Lone Pine lets me examine a campfire and also a bin, then has the protagonist comment on them in a way that says something about her as well as about the object she’s looking at, I know I’m in…
There are still a lot of games left to come in 2025—October alone is full of Steam wishlist heavy-hitters—but we’re close enough to the end of the year to start mapping out our 2026 gaming plans. It’s still rather early, so our 2026 new games calendar doesn’t have a ton of dates set in stone…
Hollow Knight: Silksong continues to get picked apart as players try to find every little secret Team Cherry hid inside of it over the course of its long development. That also includes the things it probably didn’t intend to be in there, like glitches. Recently, a user on the Silksong speedrunning Discord found a glitch…
Just shy of two weeks after launching its ‘bold gambit’ to save the multiplayer shooter FBC: Firebreak, Remedy says the game is still underperforming, to the point that the studio has issued a “profit warning” for 2025 and says it’s going to eat a big loss on the whole thing. The Control spinoff shooter FBC:…
Today’s explosive Battlefield 6 launch is already breaking into the history books on Steam, but on the EA App, things couldn’t be going worse. For hours now, Battlefield 6 owners who bought the game through EA’s official storefront have been locked out of all modes due to a strange entitlement bug. EA is working on…
It’s the 15th anniversary of MachineGames, the Swedish developer that most recently gave us the hit action adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The studio announced a free New Game+ update for its big Indy game yesterday to celebrate its birthday, but today it hinted at something more interesting for the future. “Thank you…
One of the biggest features coming to World of Warcraft will be available to try for free next week. Blizzard will unlock player housing for everyone, whether you’ve preordered the Midnight expansion or not, to test on the PTR starting October 13. Anything you build on the PTR won’t carry over to the live game…
Just over a week after announcing an October open beta for the Steam edition of Team Fortress 2 Classic, the throwback version of Valve’s famed team-based shooter, developer Eminoma has an update: Never mind. It turns out that an application on Steam can’t be both a mod, which Team Fortress 2 Classic is, and a…
Hideo Kojima has written an essay for the Japanese magazine An-An (spotted by Automaton) on one of his favourite topics: the 1970 World Expo held in Osaka, Japan. Kojima has often touched on this event in his writings, and the impact that his repeated visits had on his young mind. This time around, he’s even…
From Z-A and beyond. Not content with only releasing a new mainline game and tickets to the upcoming pop-up store in October, The Pokémon Company is bringing even more monster-catching content to the UK in the coming weeks with a new series of the Pokémon Horizons anime. Part one of the third season, subtitled ‘Rising…