Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is the Biggest New Third-Party Game Launch on Xbox Game Pass of 2025

Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: ‘Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent’

I remember when Dark Souls was the new hotness, it didn’t take long for the “actually, this game isn’t hard if you’re just cool and smart about it” crowd to crop up. I see a lot less of that with Silksong, which PC Gamer reviewer Tyler Colp called the “videogame equivalent of sticking your hand…

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I can’t be the only one

Lauren has a really nice “to-play” queue in her Steam library. Does anyone else have a running notes app checklist on their phone that they’ve carried across at least one upgrade? How do you keep track of upcoming games you want to play? (Image credit: Future)

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This New ‘Beat Em Up Collection’ Brings Together 7 “QUByte Classics” In A Single Package

Arrives July 17th. QUByte Interactive and Piko Interactive recently announced they are working together on a beat ‘ em up compilation, called Beat ‘Em Up Collection (QUByte Classics), which is scheduled to arrive on PC and consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC) on July 17th (thanks The Otaku Authority). According to the announcement, this “retro-fueled…

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I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 for a Call of Duty zombie mod mash up and came away wondering how the heck I got this old

There’s something fitting about a bygone zombie mod that simply refuses to die. That’s exactly what Cheyron’s Nazi Zombies is—a hybrid throwback to Call of Duty’s earliest undead horde mode that’s 10 years in the making and set within Grand Theft Auto 4. I hardly need an excuse to return to GTA 4’s faux slant…

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Should action games let us skip the action?

“We will introduce an additional difficulty level [to The Blood of Dawnwalker], but an easier one, because many people are asking for a more easy difficulty. The Story mode which we have right now will be a different difficulty—we will call it Demanding or something like this—and we will add a new Story mode which…

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