Ubisoft has revealed that city-building sequel Anno 117: Pax Romana will get its first DLC later this month. Prophecies of Ash will add the largest island featured in the series yet, one that happens to be loomed over by a massive volcano. Because why bother building a Roman city without the risk of a natural…
The Planet Crafter is a survival game that goes way beyond the traditional remit of the genre. You’re not trying to stay alive by building campfires and hunting animals and smashing together a rock and a stick to make a pickaxe appear in your inventory. Rather than bending to suit the world, you bend the…
A lot has happened in the world of Soulmask in the last week. The survival game where you oversee a tribe of independently minded individuals released out of early access with an update that developer CampFire Studio says represents “a complete reinvention of the game.” This launch coincided with the release of an Ancient Egypt-themed…
Getting Game Freaky. We hope you’re ready for another clash of covers, because it’s time for this week’s Box Art Brawl! Last time, thanks to a certain Super Mario Galaxy Movie appearance, we took a look at Star Fox: Assault for the GameCube. While the grey Japanese cover put up a good fight, it was…
Here’s what you can expect. The new noir-style cartoon detective FPS Mouse: P.I. for Hire arrives on the Switch 2 next week after a slight delay. Ahead of the launch on 16th April 2026, Fumi Games and Playside have released the specifications and performance targets for Mouse: P.I. on every platform. Read the full article…
You may have thought Marvel Rivals was just a weirdly horny hero shooter with that one shark people like in it. Guangyun Chen, creative director for Marvel Rivals at NetEase, would like to prove you wrong. As he recently told FRVR, “Our goal is to shift from being ‘just a shooter’ to a comprehensive Marvel…
As if I needed more excuses to waste my time on YouTube when I could be doing literally anything else, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has been uploading episodes of the old D&D cartoon from the 1980s. Every Friday they show two or three episodes in a block, and they’re 11 episodes…
You’ve been playing 1000xResist for half a dozen chapters, enjoying changes in perspective and mechanics with each chapter shift. Yet the sudden jump to video still feels unusual when it happens—recorded footage of Hong Kong suddenly taking the place of a cutscene in the middle of the game. As creative director Remy Siu says, that…
We’re ready when you are, Nintendo. New ratings for Splatoon Raiders and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave have reportedly been spotted on Nintendo’s European webpages. The spin-off Splatoon Raiders now has a ‘PEGI 7’ rating, and the new Fire Emblem game has apparently been updated from a provisional rating to a ‘PEGI 12’ rating. According to…
It’s no secret that arcade fighters reward absurd precision and reaction times, and that means you need robust netcode if you want to play these games online and have a good time. While rollback netcode has recently become the standard for big name fighters, the communities behind older games are understandably eager to see it…