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Back at June’s PlayStation State of Play stream, my most-anticipated action game of the year popped up with a short teaser trailer starring a mysterious masked man fighting with a sword in one hand and a baby in the other. In a much, much longer trailer today coinciding with pre-orders going live, Phantom Blade Zero…
If you scroll down to Popular New Releases on Steam right now, you’ll find a quintessentially 2026 list of games. There’s Shelves & Sorcery, a new entry in the burgeoning sortslop genre. There’s Landscaper Simulator, which is a simulator about landscaping. The War in the North reissue is there, and there are at least two…
Good news for the Bethesda RPG-starved: The Elder Scrolls 6 is significantly more corporeal now than it was eight years ago, when Todd Howard appeared at E3 (RIP) to announce it with nothing but a logo, a mountain range, and some rousing music. A couple months after Xbox CCO Matt Booty said the game “looks…
Saber Interactive’s upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” drew some eyeballs today when Saber CEO Matthew Karch confirmed that its trailer includes a hidden jab at Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. But that same trailer sparked a grimmer reaction from former lead writer Stella Sacco, who said on Bluesky that she was replaced on the project by ChatGPT. Saber,…
Fields of Mistria romance walkthrough Meet the marriage candidates At first, there are 10 eligible singles among your new neighbors. There’s a whole lot more dialogue in Mistria than most farm sims, so you’ll want to talk with all of them regularly, even multiple times per day, to really get to know them. You can…
You know a developer is confident in the game it’s making when it’s willing to list all of the reasons you might not want to buy it. That’s the thrust of the latest dev log for Wardogs, the tactical milsim FPS coming to early access in September. Wardogs has built up a lot of buzz…
16 years ago, we used a trailer for the then-upcoming action RPG Lord of the Rings: War in the North to drop a sick burn on people who maybe take their Tolkien a little too seriously. The game launched a year later, in 2011, to middling reviews and disappointing sales, and there it sat until…
I’m seated on the edge of a transport helicopter, legs dangling in the breeze, when our pilot flips on the radio to Flight of the Valkyries. “Duh duh duh duh, duh, duh duh duh duh, duh” three passengers sing in non-unison, their VOIP lagging two seconds behind the actual song. The pilot interrupts the performance…
If you watched the recent trailer for Saber Interactive’s upcoming Rideshare ‘Stimulator’ (the quotation marks are part of the title) you may have thought it seemed a little bit hinky in spots. Midway through the video, after a quick rundown of some of the game’s oddball passengers, the narrator says, “And when I think I’ve…
Across the ages, theorists and theologians have wrestled with an irreconcilable question: Is free will an inherent capacity of the human soul, or a misapprehension of things predetermined and divine? Is it a unique function of the human animal, or an illusory quirk of cognition bound by circumstance and necessity? If free will is indeed…