Silent Hill f recently received a big update that adds a casual difficulty, speeds up NG+ runs, and reduces the number of areas where players are forced to engage with combat. The patch seems like a sensible response to some general criticisms of the acclaimed horror revival. But fans of the series are convinced that…
Digging into Escape From Tarkov‘s 1.0 release? In classic Battlestate Games fare, there’s an ultra-rare LEDX that spawns in the tutorial, and if you miss it you’ll need to find a whole extra LEDX later to either upgrade your MedBay to level 3, or hand it in for the late-game quest, Private Clinic. Even if…
Just three days out from Stalker 2’s first birthday (doesn’t time fly?) GSC Game World has released another meaty patch for its unique, ambitious, and at times conflagrating shooter. Patch 1.7 is a doozy—you can tell because it’s one of those patches a developer puts out a video to mark—and it’s out now. There are…
Phasmophobia is one of those unproblematic success stories. It launched in early access with such a well-conceived and executed core experience that I breathlessly proclaimed it “the best ghost game ever made.” In the five years since, developer Kinetic Games has slowly but surely built Phasmophobia into the PC’s definitive spook-buster (to the extent there’s…
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Category: Announcements November 17, 2025 Xbox Partner Preview: See the Latest Games From Our Amazing Third Party Partners This Week Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor We’re excited to reveal that the next Xbox Partner Preview – our broadcast that shines a light on upcoming games from our talented third-party partners – is coming this Thursday,…
Thoughts and prayers. There’s a version of Indika I’d call one of the most singularly audacious narrative exploration games in recent memory, a daring title that defies easy classification with its surrealist flourishes, cinematic art direction, and cynical inversion of familiar video game mechanics. Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch version isn’t it. Part spiritual tragicomedy, part…
Resident Evil Requiem is one of the scariest Resident Evil games I’ve played, and I only got to see a 30-minute demo at Gamescom, so I dread to think about what the rest of the game will be like. That’s due to a very deliberate choice by the developers to try and steer this next…
Cities: Skylines developer Colossal Order has parted ways with publisher Paradox Interactive, with ongoing development of the series moving to a different studio. In a statement posted to the Paradox Forums, Paradox announced that the pair had “mutually decided to pursue independent paths”, claiming the choice had been made to ensure “the strongest possible future…
Have you ever come across something so deeply rooted within your childhood memories, it triggers a physical sensation? I have. It’s this playable 3D Maze screensaver project, which allows you to fulfil the fantasy of controlling your way through a nightmarish tangle of Windows 95-era digital brick walls. Or my childhood fantasy, anyway. I was…