One Of Japan’s Premier Visual Novel Writers Enters Palliative Care For Throat Cancer

Jun Maeda, known for writing visual novels as well as for composing music for them, has chosen to enter palliative care after being diagnosed with throat cancer. Japanese visual novel publisher Visual Arts made the announcement on the company’s X page. We would like to share an important announcement concerning our creator, Jun Maeda.For details,…

Castlevania Belmont’s Curse swung between Dark Souls and Dead Cells to find the form that “feels good in your hands”

Ken coolly serves the hottest news stories and has played, we think, every game ever made. Published: October 15, 2026 Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse launches today, and it feels right. Developer Evil Empire was born out of Dead Cells studio Motion Twin to continue work on that game, which always wore its Castlevania influences on its…

While You Wait For The Phasmophobia Movie, Don’t Miss This Hidden Gem

An official Phasmophobia movie is on the way; we learned as much last summer. But what if I said you could watch something quite like Kinetic’s ghostbusting co-op game right now?  That’s the elevator pitch I bring you, fellow horror fans, less than two weeks out from Halloween. The movie is Never After Dark, a…

Pokémon Pokopia And Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Shortlisted For 'Console Game Of The Year'

Award season is here. We’re getting closer to that time of year when a lot of game awards are announced and it seems Nintendo is already up for some nominations. The 44th annual Golden JoyStick Awards for 2026 have now opened voting across 21 categories, and a handful of Nintendo games have been shortlisted. Read…

PS Plus Extra, Premium October 2026 Games Rolling Out Now

News Home » PS Plus Extra, Premium October 2026 Games Rolling Out Now PS Plus Extra and Premium October 2026 games have begun rolling out in regions where it’s now Tuesday the 20th, with their release staggered by region. As a reminder, Sony has a different release schedule in the US, UK, and Japan, so…

3 Video Games Where Your Choices Actually Make a Difference

This year’s open-world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker and its myriad choices got me thinking: What does it really mean for your choices to matter in a video game? Typically, we think it’s a good use of branching narratives when you have a properly big, dramatic effect on how things play out or when you…

Moonlighter studio won’t host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: ‘We know we’re not the only developers feeling this way’

The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be “reverse-engineered, cloned and published”. The move comes as a surge in rapidly vibe coded clones floods Steam, Roblox and mobile app stores in the aftermath of Claude Opus 5.5….

Card Collector Who Spent Over Two Years Building $100,000 Collection Gets Terrible News From PSA

The explosion in card collecting, from Pokémon to basketball cards, has led people to pay a premium to get their collections graded by official third parties like PSA. Usually, the worst thing a customer can hear from a grading agency is that their prized card isn’t the mint condition they thought it was. But for…

Phantom Blade Zero devs are happy they “didn’t have to make everything 100% balanced”

In multiplayer action games, it’s vital that every weapon or character is equally useful, at least as much as possible. I spoke to Phantom Blade Zero‘s director, Soulframe (S), about how S-Game managed 30 different weapons, and how the team tried to make them balanced. S knows balance is important in Phantom Blade Zero: “It’s…

A Star Wars Battlefront 3 Made By Bungie Would Probably Be Great But Also A Waste

It’s been almost a decade since Star Wars Battlefront 2 and fans have been eager for a follow-up. According to Giant Bomb cohost Jeff Grubb, Lucasfilm is indeed shopping around a Star Wars Battlefront 3, but it remains to be seen who might actually make it. According to the rumor, Bungie is one of the…