It’s October 31st. You sit patiently, waiting for little ghouls and hobgoblins to run down the street, seeking treats from your orange plastic pumpkin (excluding the “samples” you’ve sneaked). But what to do to pass the time between groups of gremlins? There’s only so much candy of which to partake, and that Commodore 64 is…
Despite objections from some game developers and much of the public at large, the US Department of Homeland Security says it will continue to use videogame-related materials to promote itself and its work, and it doesn’t seem too concerned about whether it has legal permission to do so. Earlier this week, DHS posted an image…
Even as a rejuvenated Battlefield series dominates the shooter limelight, sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is poised to be a hit. Public playtests have been popular enough to propel it to the third spot on Steam’s most-wishlisted games list, and a playtest back in April was so well-received that many hoped Arc’s developers would drop…
Battlefield Studios first big live-service push for Battlefield 6 is proving more controversial than celebratory. While the reception of Battlefield Redsec—a free-to-play battle royale mode with its own map and class abilities—is largely positive, the wider player base isn’t as happy with changes made to Battlefield 6 itself. Namely, they’re fed up with pop-ads for…
“The Wildest Adventure of Them All!” returns. Limited Run Games has announced that it’s bringing NES side-scrolling platformer Little Samson to the Switch in 2026. The reveal took place during the company’s 10th anniversary stream. Originally released in 1992 for the NES and directed by former Capcom designer Shinichi Yoshimoto (Strider, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts), Little…
September 30, 2016 was a big day for Amazon Game Studios: It was on that day, at TwitchCon, it unveiled Breakaway, Crucible, and New World, signalling a major push into the realm of big-budget game development. Not quite a decade later, we find ourselves standing amidst the rubble of that once-great ambition, with a single…
If there’s one thing last week’s big AWS outage should have taught us, it’s that putting all our eggs into one giant tech basket may not be a great idea. And in case we didn’t adequately take that lesson to heart, here’s another opportunity: Just hours before Microsoft is set to deliver its quarterly financial…
The old magic. Over the weekend, we republished our reader-ranked list of all the Pokémon games after everyone had had a chance to spend some quality time with Legends: Z-A and vote accordingly. That’s 22 mainline games by our count. The entries at the top of the table probably won’t surprise you, as the inventiveness…
Even better visuals? Oof, yes please. Shujinkou, the DRPG that also offers up some excellent Japanese language-learning tools, has been updated to version 1.0.2 on Switch. The biggest improvement here is in the graphics. A new Visual Fidelity option has been added to the menu to enable the game to run at an even crisper…
Need to know What is it? A sequel to 2021’s satisfyingly mundane chore sim with new tools and sudsy upgradesRelease date: Oct 23, 2025Expect to pay: $25/£20Developer: FuturLabPublisher: Square EnixReviewed on: RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB RAM Multiplayer: 2-player co-op in career mode, 4-player co-op in free playSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official site Some…