Just over five years since its early access launch, Valheim will hit 1.0 on September 9. When that happens, the $20 Viking-themed survival crafting game will cost $30, and a new ice-themed Deep North biome will be added. Iron Gate has confirmed as much in a new FAQ addressing most of the community’s pertinent questions,…
And King Dedede is out today. The Kirby Air Riders amiibo line is expanding this week and in the future. Apart from the release of the King Dedede & Tank Star amiibo today, Nintendo has now confirmed the date for the next release. As revealed on its official Japanese website, the Chef Kawasaki & Hop…
“I knew I could count on you”. Earlier this week, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for Switch 2 would be getting a proper “physical cartridge” release, containing the “full base game”. In an update, the company has now shared a new promotional trailer on its social media pages, showing this physical game…
I won’t lie to you, I initially looked at July’s game releases and drew a blank trying to name any bigish new games I’m looking forward to. It’s definitely quiet this month, but take the lull as a chance to catch up. New game releases for 2026 ramp up again in the final stretch of…
Sony drove another nail into the coffin of physical videogames today, announcing that it’d cease production of PS5 discs in 2028. The future of the leading videogame console is total digital licensing, and according to the director of the Video Game History Foundation, that means the future of preservation, for the moment, must be piracy….
Six years ago, PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti wrote a headline that captured the feeling of the moment, when PlayStation announced it would be bringing more of its exclusive games to Steam: Well, I guess we won the console war. The walls between platforms had crumbled. Everything but Nintendo was or would soon be playable on…
As a survival game, Windrose is an extremely forgiving one. Your weapons and gear never degrade. If your pirate ship sinks you can rebuild it with a mere 20 pieces of wood. You can’t die of hunger or thirst, and your NPC pirate crew, well… they can’t die at all. It’s such a streamlined survival…
Zeb-easy now. A mysterious rating for a project called Metroid Ravenous has been spotted on the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security site by Universo Nintendo (thanks, VGC). The rating was swiftly removed, but a screenshot has been posted to verify its authenticity. Filed by Nintendo of America, it refers to a project in…
Ever play a game set in a world so intriguing and enjoyable you wish there were other games, even of a different genre, that took place in the same setting? Eremite Games, the studio that created roguelike city builder Against the Storm, has announced just that. “There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you,” the…
Culminating a messy, year-long legal spat, Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the studio staff of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment, having reached a settlement with the studio’s leadership—including ousted-and-subsequently reinstated-by-court-order CEO, Ted Gill. In an interview with Bloomberg, Gill said he has voluntarily resigned as studio executive, having “mutually agreed to part…