Tickling, not tremendous. When they’re done well, games with a message can be so effective, balancing the scale between teaching and transfixing you. to a T is a narrative game wrapped in a cute art style courtesy of designer Keita Takahashi (Katamari). It touches on an important theme, but that touch is light. Your happy-go-lucky…
Only the key creatives behind Forza Horizon currently have the sway to start up a brand new studio and secure the tens of millions of dollars in funding necessary to make a movie with a racing game attached to it. That’s Clutch, a “cinematic open world action-driving game where the worlds of professional and underground…
It has been two years since Dragon’s Dogma 2—the unlikely sequel to an unlikely RPG—emerged from its Riftstone, and it just got a fairly mondo new patch. Released on June 10, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s latest title update brings fast travel tweaks, pawn futzing, bug fixes, and plenty else besides. Oh, and it’s part one of…
If ever I needed the nudge to rethink my rig’s cooling set-up, a heatwave in the mostly AC-less UK would do it. Earlier this month, I admit I had the thought, “Is that smell coming from my PC and, if so, why does it smell of bacon?” So when Phanteks rocks up with an unconventional-looking…
Rhythm Heaven or Rhythm Hell? If you watched this week’s Nintendo Direct right from the very start, you will have seen a whopping two-minute-fifty-five-second trailer for next month’s first-party offering, Rhythm Heaven Groove. We’re rapidly closing in on that 2nd July release date, and today, the first previews have appeared online. A bunch of outlets…
The memory crisis has fundamentally changed how we approach memory and storage. It has made consumers adjust expectations about how much capacity they can get, and for what cost, and for companies like Biwin, it has meant having to purchase billions worth of NAND flash memory years in advance just to make sure it has…
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…