2026

As the Trump administration works to strain every one of America’s diplomatic relationships, its European allies are being forced to reevaluate their reliance on American military aid and equipment—equipment like the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II multi-role strike fighter that’s currently or planned to be operated by 14 European militaries who will, theoretically, be relying…

Opus Magnum, a stellar 2017 puzzle game about building alchemical devices, is getting a surprise new DLC campaign. Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica will release on March 17, and adds three prequel chapters to the game with a total of 17 new puzzles, new cutscenes and music, and new glyphs (machine components). It’s “around half…

Nerial is the French indie studio behind Card Shark and the Reigns series, and not immediately the team you would pick for a Witcher game—unless it was a singleplayer Gwent story like Thronebreaker perhaps. Instead, Nerial is adapting the Reigns series to Geralt’s adventures, having had what they call “great success” with a Game of…

A little over a week into Diablo 2’s first expansion in 25 years and people have already figured out how to break the new warlock class. By most accounts, warlocks are easily the strongest class in the game for how easy it is to put together a devastating build, but YouTuber Coooley wanted something better…

Did you feel that? The echoing reverberation of thousands of collective hours of roguelike deckbuilding thudding into place ahead of us on the timestream? That’s because Slay the Spire 2 just locked in its early access release on March 5, and—surprise—it’s bringing four player co-op on launch day. I’ll give you a moment to rotate…

Midsummer Studios founder and former Firaxis creative director, Jake Solomon, has announced the abrupt closure of Midsummer through a post on X. Solomon also shared a two-minute gameplay video of its life sim, “Burbank,” the first public showcase of the planned Sims competitor. We have reached out to Solomon for comment, and will update this…

Another day, another example of Netflix continuing to expand its roster of film and TV projects by walking into the board game aisle of a Target, pointing at a random box, and going: “That one.” Last April Netflix successfully bid for the rights to make a reality series based on board game Monopoly, and followed…

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Gaze upon the Battlefield 6 Season 2 roadmap and witness its mediocrity. Notice its cramped…

What do you get when you fuse the ultimate half-paying-attention time-waster with the act of collecting cards, somehow the most compulsive activity known to man, and then make it go really fast? You get a game seemingly grown in a lab to be the ultimate time killer. Vampire Crawlers is Wolverine for your social calendar….