2026

The Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs have had a pretty impressive year. Releasing to almost entirely glowing reviews, it has since gone on to sweep awards and even received two public shout-outs from French President Emmanuel Macron. But as one chapter ends, another begins as the Sandfall devs prepare for their next game. Talking to…

In the first few days of the year, Asus has come in with a pair of gaming glasses that may be a contender for worst-named tech product at CES 2026. As reported by Wccftech, the Asus ROG Xreal R1 AR is a set of glasses with a 240 Hz Micro-OLED screen which projects a virtual…

After sinking way too many hours into some of 2025’s massive hits like Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 over the holiday season, I’d reached critical fatigue and decided to step back and play something much smaller in scope. Something quick and simple for a palate cleanser, you know the drill. Mistakenly, I picked Ball x…

Capcom couldn’t have hoped for a better environment to release Monster Hunter Wilds into. Monster Hunter was already ascendant: World was a breakout success that thrust the series into global awareness, and after glutting itself on Elden Ring the gaming public had a mainstream interest in precise, demanding third person combat and systems-heavy buildcraft. At…

There’s a type of myth that survives not because there’s any evidence for it, but because it flatters the preconceptions of a particular group of people. Take the notion that Todd Howard, head honcho over at Bethesda Game Studios, clearly seethes with resentment about how much Obsidian knocked Fallout: New Vegas out of the park….

There are two obvious reasons you could already be excited for Code Vein 2. One: it’s a soulslike made in-house by the publisher of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls series. Two: anime melodrama. If you love characters scream-crying through their emotional beats more than reading FromSoft flavor text like “If the soul is the source of all…