July 15, 2026
Was Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Egypt the best open world in the series?
Getting lost in history in Assassin’s Creed Origins By Andy Kelly In Assassin’s Creed we usually visit civilisations at their peak, whether it’s Renaissance Italy or London at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Ubisoft could have done this for Origins too, taking us to the golden age of Ancient Egypt. But instead we visit…
The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 ‘most influential works of American culture’
We often talk about Doom—the original 1993 shooter from the young upstarts at id Software—as one of the most influential videogames of all time. But the Washington Post, one of the country’s most highly-regarded papers of record, has elevated it to an even higher plateau: It has selected Doom as one of the 25 most…
If The Odyssey film is anything like The Odyssey adventure game from 2012, Matt Damon will spend the entire first hour trying to solve a single loom puzzle
Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited epic adventure film The Odyssey opens this weekend, and I won’t be there to see it because the IMAX theater near me is already sold out except for those really terrible seats way down in front. Which is fine, really: at a running time of two hours and 53 minutes, I’m much…
Steam reveals all the sale dates and themed events for the first half of 2027
I’ve been around long enough that I can remember a time when we didn’t know Steam sale dates in advance. We had a rough window, based on the timing of previous sales, but the absence of anything precise meant that all of us poor news guys had to sit around mashing F5 on Steam every…
Original Witcher dev says remaking it as an open world won’t be easy: ‘As a player, I might be happy about that, but as a designer, I’m starting to get gray’
The original Witcher, released in 2007, was a fairly linear affair, with individual maps to explore but overall progression, from point to point to point, relatively tied down. The remake, in development at Fool’s Theory, is taking a very different approach: It’s a “modern reimagining” of that game as an “open-world RPG.” Simple enough—just make…
Moonlight Peaks review
Need to know What is it? A nocturnal farm sim in a town of supernaturalsExpect to pay: $35/£30Developer: Little ChickenPublisher: Xseed Games, Marvelous EuropeReviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 7 265, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB RAMMultiplayer: NoSteam Deck: VerifiedLink: Official site “A nocturnal farm sim where you’re a vampire” is one of the better hooks I’ve…
As Sony prepares to end game disc production, GOG jumps up to remind PC gamers that you can just make your own
GOG is very good at two things: Bringing old games to modern PCs, and telling everyone that its games are DRM-free so you can do whatever you want with them. So I was not terribly shocked when GOG weighed in on Sony’s decision to stop producing game discs in 2028 with a little note reminding…
A year after its debut, Blizzard is done adding new heroes and maps to Overwatch’s MOBA-inspired Stadium mode
Despite the surge in Overwatch players since Blizzard’s decision to drop the 2 and take the hero shooter in a new direction earlier this year, the noise around its MOBA-inspired Stadium mode has died down. And so has its popularity, which has prompted a halt in development plans according to a new blog post by…
Review: Go-Go Town! – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – A SimCity / Animal Crossing Blend To Boost Your Serotonin (And Stress)
Never stop never stopping. Management sims sit at the busy intersection of stressful and fun. Now joining the pile-up is Go-Go Town, a city builder from Australian dev Prideful Sloth (Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles). It certainly is stressful in parts — hustle is implied in the name — but somehow manages to make that…