Overwatch Is Making Good On A Decade-Old Promise

Overwatch is in the second season of its reboot era, and alongside new characters every season, the big swing Blizzard promised was that it would finally start moving the series’ story forward in a meaningful way. Now that we’re two seasons in, we’re still in the early stages of Overwatch‘s new story rollout, but Blizzard…

Mouse P.I. For Hire review: a monochrome tale with a ton of personality

Verdict Mouse P.I. For Hire takes every noir trope and turns it into something new. A monochrome shooter with a delicious mystery at its core, the varied locales and wonderful voice cast make this one of the best games I’ve played all year. Noir fiction works best for me when it’s played straight: hardboiled, down-on-their-luck…

Japanese Charts: Tomodachi Life’s Huge Start Crushes The Competition

Image: Nintendo We’ve got our latest look at the Japanese charts, thanks to Famitsu, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has left the competition in the dust. Nintendo’s latest life sim has got off to a staggering start, shifting a sweet 565,405 copies in its debut week. That leaves this week’s silver medallist, Pragmata, with…

Here Are The Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PC Specs And Requirements

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft’s worst-kept secret, has finally been revealed, and it’s hitting PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on July 9. You can read all kinds of new details about the from-the-ground-up remake in our coverage here, but if you’re planning to check out Black Flag Resynced on PC, we have…

2026 PS5 Remake of Hit PS2 Game Gets First-Ever PS Store Deal

A new 2026 PS5 remake of a fan favorite PS2 action adventure game is discounted for the first time in a brand-new PS Store deal. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake‘s standard and digital deluxe editions are both on sale, and there’s free limited-time DLC that players can grab. Fatal Frame 2 PS5 remake is…

I thought I was playing a cute little city builder about managing a fairytale town in a tree, but it turns out it’s a brutal roguelike and now all my gnomes are getting eaten by ghosts

Little Tree Kingdom is about as instantly charming as games get. You want me to help a clan of cute little gnomes build a new town for themselves in a tree? Don’t mind if I do! And may I add: “Awwww!” As if to lull me further into a sense of security, it’s also a…

Peter Molyneux’s Latest Game Is A Broken Sandwich-Making Sim

It would be a foolhardy soul who was optimistic that the latest game from Peter Molyneux’s 22cans studio would break the pattern of its last few dreadful and swiftly abandoned releases, given the company’s decade of broken games and promises. But even so, there was a hype surrounding Masters of Albion that was absent from…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is finally out this summer and “it is not an RPG”

Its existence has been known for a while, officially or otherwise, but Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced has finally been fully revealed. The remake of the fan-favorite game will be out on July 9, and it looks incredible. It’s more than a visual overhaul, though. Lots of changes have been made to modernize Black Flag,…

How Strixhaven, Magic’s answer to Harry Potter, happened

In February 2026, panic struck the Magic: The Gathering community. Hasbro, the parent company of Magic and Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast, announced a partnership with Warner Bros. to license the Harry Potter franchise across its various product lines. While no specific toys or games were confirmed, the news was still enough…

Crimson Desert’s Biggest Update Yet Transforms It Once Again

Love it or hate it, Crimson Desert launched in March with no small number of issues and unfortunate points of unnecessary friction. Pearl Abyss has been rapidly patching the game to address every pain point in the weeks since. The latest wave of improvements comes by way of Thursday’s 1.04 patch, which adds new difficulty modes…