April 2026

Fighting games are hard. And I don’t just mean they’re hard videogames to master, with complex input strings and character match-ups to memorize. They’re seemingly hard games to sell and convince new players to devote hours of their lives to—just look at recent League of Legends fighter 2XKO, which saw 80 developers laid off shortly…

About 30 seconds into the trailer for Overwatch’s new hero Sierra, she shoots a little pink dart into her target. It has no obvious effect on Emre, one of the recently introduced characters, as he slips behind cover to avoid her rifle shots. It almost looks like Sierra never learned how to aim until the…

Say what you will about Crimson Desert protagonist Kliff, he is—by all accounts—present. Unfortunately, he isn’t much else. Guy’s got less personality than a tax office cubicle. Our man Kliff’s so much of a blank slate that it’s hard not to wonder whether Pearl Abyss might have been better off giving players the ability to…

Extraction shooters seem to be all the rage right now, what with Arc Raiders still going strong almost five months after launch, and Marathon hot off the presses. Well, the genre’s a hit in theory anyway, as Arc Raiders is really the only extraction shooter to break into the mainstream—even Bungie’s stab at it, while…

A common lament among cozy game players is that some games commonly considered “cozy” are more stressful than they let on—lookin’ at you Stardew Valley optimizers. But managing your daily energy and getting to bed before 2am has nothing on the overwhelm of looking at a screen filled with thousands of almost identical clovers to…

To celebrate the release of the film adaptation of Japanese horror game, The Exit 8, which comes to theatres on April 10, a new version of the game has premiered on Roblox, complete with new anomalies. Games can sometimes have a hard time transitioning into the world of Roblox, whether that be because of the…

There’s nothing else quite like Mirror’s Edge. Not even its only sequel, Catalyst, is quite like the first Mirror’s Edge. Bold colours, slick parkour, and a cheesy story that’s trying a tad too hard, Mirror’s Edge has gone on to become a cult classic despite EA shoving it to the back of the store room….