July 2026
Final Fantasy Devs Think Other Remakes Would Probably Go Beyond A Trilogy
FFVII was already a massive undertaking. The Final Fantasy VII Remake series will reach its conclusion next year, and it’s led to questions about other entries in the long-running role-playing series receiving a similar makeover. The FFXIV game director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida responded to a question about this at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest…
Cringe ’90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed
Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative long haired slacker. They were cult figures in the ’90s. Most of my teenage friends thought they were very funny, and Clerks is still…
Lego Party Rating For Switch 2 Surfaces On The ESRB
The party doesn’t stop. Last September, the Mario Party style game LEGO Party arrived on the Switch with “60 hilarious minigames”. If you haven’t already given this multiplayer title a go, it looks like it might be making an encore on the Switch 2. A rating for this version of the game has now surfaced…
Zach Cregger may have made the best Resident Evil movie yet, but a faction of fans aren’t happy about it
I’m in such a bubble of positivity for Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil movie that I had no idea anyone was upset about it until I looked at the reactions to some of our coverage. The movie is Resident Evil “in name and nothing else,” one person wrote in reply to…
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13 Ubisoft games go free on PC if you own them on Xbox
Do you own Ubisoft games on your Xbox console but wish you could play them on your PC—but not so much that you’re willing to pay extra for it? If your answer to that oddly specific question is “yes,” and the games in question are one of a list of 13 titles that we’ll get…
After leaving Epic Games last month, its former ‘Unreal evangelist’ is now building his own game engine
In June, Sjoerd De Jong—an Unreal Engine modder and map creator turned full-time specialist at Epic Games—announced that he was leaving the company after 12 years as its “lead evangelist” for Unreal. In a cryptic departure message, he said the games industry was at a “pivotal point,” and he’s aiming to “work out how to…
‘Wtf is going on’: Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity
A few months ago, indie developer RetroSpecter noticed something unusual about Crashphalt, their first completed game that launched on Steam in 2018: Since their last check-in on the neglected platformer, Crashphalt had suddenly gained over 500 reviews. In its first four years, it had barely managed a dozen. And almost none of those new reviewers…
EA is ‘a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,’ former Dragon Age boss says, and that’s why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried
Electronic Arts’ big RPG series Dragon Age did not get a happy ending. The most recent game in the series, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, failed to meet sales targets, and EA quickly beat feet in the other direction, putting the torch to BioWare on the way out the door. It’s not often that game franchises…