Videogame analyst Matthew Ball predicted in his “State of Videogaming in 2026” report released earlier this year that in-game ad placements will become more common in PC and console games and services in the future, as they’re a largely untapped source of revenue—income the industry needs and is increasingly struggling to find. Now he’s the…
Category: Games June 11, 2026 Beastro Brings a Traditional Card Game Spin to the Cozy Genre Lindsey Rostal, Studio Director at Timberline Studio Summary Beastro is out today on XBOX Series X|S and XBOX on PC; Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Pulling from both traditional card games and trading card games, Beastro aims…
Finding the Astro Toy photo challenge location this week in Forza Horizon 6 is much easier than the Tokyo Tower or Edogawa Baseball Stadium, so long as you’ve done some exploring. That said, finding the Irokawa Space Centre isn’t the biggest hurdle. That would be figuring out what a Track Toy is. Below, I’ll explain…
Any news on the current global memory crisis probably seems like a stuck record right now, but SK hynix reckons it has some good news for us: Its plans for constructing new chip factories have managed to shave ten years off the projected completion date. The only problem is that it’s only brought it to…
EVE Frontier is a weird game. It’s had an uphill battle winning goodwill from EVE Online’s infamously dedicated community, running into a refrain of, “Why should I play this crypto spinoff thing?” It’s gone through traditionally closed, often unsightly stages of early development in full public view, with players offering feedback along the way. It…
Can’t stop the dream. It has been another rough post-price-hike sales week for Switch 2 in Japan, but Nintendo stays winning on the software side, thanks to Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (thanks, Famitsu). The wacky life sim added another 50,000+ copies to its pile this week, stopping the new Switch 2 releases of Final…
After taking last week off, the Treasure Hunt challenge is back on the menu in Forza Horizon 6‘s Spring Series 1 update. This week, we’ve got to find the Tokyo City Treasure Hunt, which is the hardest one yet. The hint you’re given is of the shipping yard in the city, with tons of containers…
Super Rare to the rescue. Earlier this year, Chained Echoes developer Matthias Linda announced that he was filing a lawsuit against distributor First Press Games after a two-year wait for his promised physical release. Well, good news! The dev has partnered with a new company, and the physical launch is back on track. Super Rare…
Category: Games June 11, 2026 Free Play Days – Hell Let Loose, State of Decay 2, and Blasphemous 2 Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, XBOX Jump into a weekend of survival, spectacle, and all-out warfare with Free Play Days! Hell Let Loose is available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play…
I didn’t really like Palworld all that much—granted, survival and crafting games are hit-or-miss subjects with me, but I also just couldn’t quite get past the whole ‘isn’t it funny how your little critters get depressed if you put them on the assembly line for too long’ thing. Witchspire solves those problems, then, by being…