Thousand Hells is a ‘tactical narrative’ feast of infernal storytelling, but its defeats can feel brutal

In Thousand Hells: The Underworld heists, I’ve sort of taken on the role of the dad in that one tweet about feeding cats to coyotes. But rather than serving up pets to jackals, I’m dutifully feeding bands of doomed adventurers into the psychological, corporeal, and spiritual wood chipper of the “tactical narrative” game’s bespoke hellscapes….

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Inspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares ‘videogames are part of our culture’ and announces a new international gaming festival

One of the biggest videogames of 2025 was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a French JRPG that sold millions of copies, won armloads of awards, and earned not just one but two separate shout-outs from French President Emmanuel Macron. It must’ve made an even bigger impression on him than it first appeared, as over the weekend…

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Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: ‘There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me’

Local Man Benjamin Burnley interrupts a Breaking Benjamin concert with a rant about his True First Person 1.2 Fallout 4 mod from r/Fallout An amazing scene played out over the weekend at a Breaking Benjamin concert in Holmdel, NJ, as captured by Reddit user im_all_ears (embedded above). Band frontman Benjamin Burnley spent over four minutes imploring the…

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Just days after The Tetris Company warned that ‘we take copyright infringement very seriously,’ the Tetris clone in the White House Arcade suddenly disappears

Last week, The White House, the seat of power in a country that really has better things to be doing, rolled out a virtual arcade containing five very bad videogames, including one based on the famed block-stacking game Tetris. Unlike what we’ve seen in past instances where videogame properties were used without permission in White…

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Over 1,000 cut voice lines from Resident Evil 4 and Requiem reveal more about Leon Kennedy, the zombies he fights, and a lowkey bromance

Resident Evil is one of those series which rewards nosey players. There’s always notes, recordings, and pictures hidden in the cracks and crevices, all of which give players more info. Whether that be the structural integrity, of Mr. X’s trench coat or the fact that Grace Ashcroft has absolutely zero social life. But it’s not…

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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail’s final story patch is exactly what the game needed, and has the 4-month wait for Evercold suddenly feeling a whole lot longer

The reception to Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail’s story has been as much of a journey as the expansion itself. It was never going to be easy, being the first expansion to build a brand-new arc following a decade of excellent storytelling, and unfortunately it didn’t quite land initially. Criticisms around its core narrative have largely…

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