Monkey business. We are back for another edition of Box Art Brawl, and it’s a good one this week. Last time, to celebrate all things Sonic for his 35th anniversary, we matched up every Sonic game on Switch, leading to a beefy nine poll options! Sonic Origins Plus came out on top with 33% of…
Mark Rosewater sure does wear a lot of superhero T-shirts. Magic: The Gathering’s head designer and lead on its Marvel Super Heroes expansion specifically is usually seen in interviews and on stage with a comic-book T under his flannel, and apparently called dibs on a Marvel set back when the Universes Beyond concept was first…
You’re forgiven if you’d forgotten about Star Wars: Eclipse. After being revealed with a flashy cinematic trailer in 2021, all we heard about Quantic Dreams’ Star Wars game was the briefest of mentions in a blog post by studio founder and CEO David Cage last year, in which he said, “Of course, development of Star…
A console release is also on the way. Yacht Club’s new game Mina The Hollower has already established itself with millions of sales and it seems the renound Hollower is already gearing up for her next adventure. Rivals creator Dan Fornace has announced Mina will be the first guest character in Rivals of Aether II….
Shovel Knight and more. The Switch 2 is now a year into its lifecycle, and Nintendo and other developers continue to improve the compatibility of Switch titles on the new hybrid system. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Amid Star Wars Zero Company’s gameplay and release date reveal at the 2026 Summer Game Fest, it somehow slipped by me that the squad tactics game from XCOM veterans also got an official price tag: $50. What year is it, 2005? Not only is this what Firaxis charged for XCOM: Enemy Unknown in 2012, it’s…
In a new episode of Nightdive’s Deep Dive podcast, host Locke Vincent, producer Daniel Grayshon, and studio head Stephen Kick got into some of the more granular details of Thief: The Dark Project Remastered, including that they brought on an original Looking Glass artist, Daniel Thron, to help revamp Thief’s cutscenes. “We have one of…
Alongside the next character DLC. Cygames and Arc System Works have this week announced the fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is on its way to the Switch 2. This version of the title will be launching alongside the new 2.60 game update on 17th September 2026. Here’s the reveal: Read the full article on…
Palworld just keeps moving. It’s postured to more or less shrug off its prominent legal battle with Nintendo, and it’s reaching that glorious threshold any survival-craft game hopes to eventually cross: actually being done. Or if not done, complete enough to call it version 1.0 when it finally releases July 10. It seems like it…
Once you’ve lost a few thousand hours to a MOBA, it’s easy to forget how hard it was to learn. A game like League of Legends has well over a hundred playable characters, all sorts of items and jungle monsters, and even the basics can be fussy. One of the most crucial is the zen…