RPG rulebooks sometimes open with an “example of play” where players with whitebread names like Arthur and Samantha go through a scripted scene and probably some combat to give you an idea what roleplaying is like. Tabletop roleplaying games are a weird hobby, and back in the day if you didn’t have an existing group…
Steam Next Fest is back and bigger than ever, but I’m not so sure that’s a good thing as I struggle to sift through its thousands of demos in search of my next second-screen idler. If anything, I kind of hate the current structure: we’ve gone from browsing a bespoke, quality selection of gems to…
Minecraft launches on Switch 2 later this year. Ahead of the release of Minecraft on the Switch 2 later this year, Mojang has this week released its new update Chaos Cubed. This exciting new game drop brings chaos in the form of sulfur cubes, a new cave biome to explore, new blocks and much more….
Don’t miss it. If you’re looking to get a little extra out of the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service, Nintendo is currently offering a free bonus month. This offer applies to US Switch 1 & 2 users when you purchase or redeem a 12-month individual or family membership of the premium tier before 28th…
Idols of Ash looks like another of the droves of low-poly first-person horror games oozing from the 21st century collective consciousness, but it’s actually more of a climbing game. I meet the nameless protagonist at the mouth of a mysterious, fathomless pit. For some reason it’s my objective to reach the bottom of it. At…
Destiny 2’s final content update threw so much into the shooter that something was bound to break, and break it did. An upcoming patch will fix a “near infinite damage” bug introduced by the Monument of Triumph update, but the developers at Bungie have decided to drag their feet on the fix to let more…
Back in January, I wrote about From the Top, a roguelike designed for those of us who had experienced the unparalleled childhood thrill of detonating your older brother’s Beyblade with an imported Japanese Driger V2 that your parents had given you earlier that day on Christmas morning of 2003. (Many such cases.) From the Top…
A new version of World of Warcraft was just discovered and it’s called “World of Warcraft Camelot”. Instead of some kind of Arthurian spin-off, however, the dataminer who found it theorizes that it’s just a codename for an enhanced version of World of Warcraft Classic. Dubbed “WoW Classic Plus” by hopeful players over the years,…
It’s time to abandon your old flowerbeds and plant something fresh—one of Roblox’s most popular games officially has a sequel in Grow a Garden 2. The new Roblox experience is a lot like the original, but with a few quality-of-life tweaks and added threats as other players can now steal your hard-earned seedlings. That means…
Category: Playtests June 16, 2026 Once Human Console Open Beta: Join the Supernatural Survival World on XBOX Series X|S Tim, XBOX Program Manager The apocalypse is calling! The wait is nearly over, Metas. Before the official launch, we are thrilled to announce the final Console Open Beta for our weird and wonderful supernatural survival game,…