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…
We’re excited to share that Phantom Blade Zero is now available for pre-order. We’re also sharing a deeper look at the game in a special Phantom Blade Zero gameplay deep dive State of Play broadcast, streaming August 17 at 7:00pm PT / 10:00pm ET | August 18 at 3:00am BST / 10:00am Beijing Time /…
One of the 1980s most popular home joysticks is now available for pre-order AUGUST 11, 2026 — Following the runaway success of last year’s Commodore 64 Ultimate, Commodore International has announced it is bringing the TAC-2 joystick, also known as the “Totally Accurate Controller,” back into production more than 40 years after its debut. Pre-orders…
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…
Including the Switch game and upgrade pack. The farming and life sim Stardew Valley got a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition last year (and earlier this year in Europe) and a physical edition has now been announced. Fangamer will be distributing a standard edition of the title for $39, which includes an 18-page full colour illustrated…
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…