April 2026

A 91-year-old woman who missed her daily check-in call got a surprise visit from police—and then police got a surprise of their own when they entered her home to discover that she hadn’t fallen and was unable to get up, but was in fact just engrossed in videogames. The happy-ending story comes to us from…

Last month, a Steam listing emerged for Pickmon, an upcoming creature-collecting survival game that gained immediate attention through the Olympian ballsiness of its visual knockoffery. Pickmon’s trailers and marketing imagery featured designs with near-identical similarity to characters, creatures, and objects from Pokémon, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Overwatch, and even Palworld—which, infamously, had sparked its own controversy…

The long-awaited Fable reboot is currently slated to drop in the fall of 2026, more than 15 years after the release of Fable 3. It’s a pretty big deal for Microsoft and developer Playground Games. Also coming in the fall of 2026 is Grand Theft Auto 6, the biggest deal of them all, which is…

Resident Evil: Requiem is my favourite Capcom game in years, and one reason for that is it gets genuinely scary at times. That’s not just in the Grace sections either: Leon might be a complete badass but, on Insanity difficulty especially, the game doesn’t hesitate to swarm you with teeth and claws, alongside some truly…