2026
Legendary JRPG studio’s 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam
Muramasa: Revenant Blades is the newly announced action RPG from Vanillaware, a highly respected Japanese studio founded in 2002 and terminally aloof to the existence of personal computers. Until now: a revamped version of 2009’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade was announced at today’s Nintendo Direct. Initially a Wii exclusive, it’ll hit Steam in 2027. If…
Donald Duck has five fingers in official art for Kingdom Hearts Collection, and that is definitely not right
We predicted last week that, with Summer Game Fest season upon us, we’d be seeing an uptick in the number of cool-looking new games that, whoops, were made with AI. Is the new Kingdom Hearts Collection (1-3), announced today during the Nintendo Direct showcase, one of them? To paraphrase the famous Ancient Aliens meme, I’m…
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‘The curse of MIXED is broken:’ Suda51 & Swery65’s Hotel Barcelona claws its way to ‘Mostly Positive’ on Steam after Hail Mary patch and scrubbing AI assets
As reported by Automaton, action platformer Hotel Barcelona has finally pulled away from “Mixed” user review status on Steam to “Mostly Positive.” This came after developer White Owls Inc. updated the game in a number of ways, including cleaning up its controversial deployment of generative AI. The sidescrolling roguelike action game is notable as a…
Everything we know about Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the Remake trilogy’s last act
We were introduced to the turbulent flow of time in Remake, and we met Sephiroth for his iconic encounter in Rebirth, and now it’s time to wrap this story up. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the third and final act in Square Enix’s remake trilogy, and even from its earliest teases, it looks like this…
Destiny 2 goes out as God intended: Amidst absurd streamer drama featuring four content creators, an esports org, a boutique PC maker, an ex-NFL star, and $180,000
A legal dispute between a Destiny 2 streamer, another streamer, a former NFL pro, and a seemingly defunct esports organization has somehow gotten even weirder than you might expect, as a third streamer has jumped in to give the first streamer $180,000 so he can continue pursuing a judgment he actually already won. Got it?…
Destiny 2’s final update crushes the Steam concurrents peak hit by last year’s Edge of Fate expansion
It’s the day of Destiny 2’s final live service update, and players have swarmed into the shooter to celebrate the game and make their demands for Destiny 3 known. With a peak of over 164,000 Steam concurrents so far today (via SteamDB), Destiny 2 is more active right now than it has been since Episode:…
Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: ‘That was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a videogame in a very long time’
Late last week, one of the highest level Path of Exile 2 players found something they’ve never seen before: a mysterious chamber in an empty room. Grinding Gear Games added a lot of new stuff in the recent Return of the Ancients update, like hidden rooms and powerful secret items, but it took one courageous…
Guide: Nintendo Direct June 2026: Every Announcement, Game Reveal & Trailer
How would you rate it? And just like that, the Direct dry spell is over! After nine months of waiting, Nintendo treated us all to a full 50 minutes of full-fat Direct bliss. We got game reveals, surprise announcements, and a bunch of new trailers giving us a closer look at it all. Read the…