It’s hard to be impressed by new Dark Souls feats in 2026 because the feats have become ludicrous. “Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times,” reads a headline from June. “Dark Souls completed by throwing literal crap at bosses,” was a thing that…
I was recently visiting friends who have young kids, and like every child on the planet in the year 2026 they love K-Pop Demon Hunters—or at least, most of it. The parents had to fast-forward past “the demon parts,” since they were apparently a bit too scary for at least one member of the under-five…
Need to know What is it?: A lean steampunk-ish RPG with tactical combat and visual novel storytelling.Expect to pay: $20/£16.80Developer: Seismic Squirrel/Chaos TheoryPublisher: Seismic SquirrelReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer?: NoSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official site I open by firing the beam weapon mounted to the hood of my flying…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Made progress in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, the best throwback FPS I’ve ever played. When a casual FPS enjoyer expresses a preference for a particular feature of Call of Duty, they are unknowingly picking a side. The way soldiers run, how attachments work, the shape of the…
On March 31st, Boss Fight Books confirmed that it had acquired enough funds via its Kickstarter campaign to go forward with its latest project, a book about the 1997 strategy game Age of Empires, written by Richard Moss, an Australian gaming historian whose work is catalogued on his website here. Richard Moss has already interviewed…
Nightdive VP of business development, Larry Kuperman, has announced his retirement from full-time work in the games industry. Kuperman’s 25-year career in games took him from publisher Stardock to retailer GameStop, but his most defining work was with the preservation specialists at Nightdive. I had the chance to speak with Kuperman about his career and…
French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir (Google translated) says Ubisoft’s decision to close the game and revoke licenses “violated fundamental consumer rights,” and that “players were…
Out of this world? Critic reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have just dropped ahead of the film’s theatrical release tomorrow, 1st April 2026. And, folks, it looks like it’s another mixed bag if early reviews are to go by. We haven’t had a chance to watch the movie early, and we’ll have our…
It’s a big day for World of Warcraft secret finders. The final steps of a puzzle that took them over a year to solve have been discovered. Specifically, the 11th and 12th orbs that surround the mysterious Felcycle mount have been lit and the secret is, well, no longer a secret. A little over a…
With its latest patch for Marathon, Bungie has decided that the haunting, derelict expanse of Tau Ceti IV is stressful enough without any adrenaline-crazed acrobats launching themselves across your screen like frenzied, gun-toting cybergibbons. Marathon is now, officially, a No Movement Freak Zone. In its patch notes for Marathon update 1.0.5.2, Bungie says it’s fixed…