Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day

Lord of Undead is a “grim” third-person RPG about building an army of vicious zombies in order to maliciously raze the villages of mortals. The goal is to defeat peace and innocence, all the better for evil to prevail. You also get to build houses. It sounds pretty fun and, as far as I can…

You Have Some Homework To Do To Make The Most Of Star Wars Zero Company

Star Wars Zero Company takes place right at the end of The Clone Wars, my favorite period in Star Wars’ huge timeline. That conflict begins with the Battle of Geonosis in Attack of the Clones and concludes with the deaths of the Separatist leaders in Revenge of the Sith, but a vast majority of the…

Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods

AI has proliferated on just about every digital platform imaginable, with many major firms stoking those flames. Despite this, the long-term audience for AI generated media has yet to be established. While the swamp of slop can be hard to wade through, nothing illuminates like the hard numbers. And according to a new report, sales…

Blizzard pulls out the nerf hammer for new World of Warcraft Midnight Season 2 class tuning

With the first week of World of Warcraft 12.1 in the books, Blizzard has revealed a round of class tuning balance changes ahead of the WoW Midnight Season 2 launch date. The developer is targeting its biggest outliers on both high and low ends of the MMORPG, and in particular has “identified several tier sets…

After 10 Years, Tom Cruise’s Forgotten 118-Minute Mystery-Thriller Is Back on Free Streaming

When Prime Video’s Reacher series debuted, the reaction from fans of the Lee Child crime novels was relief. Relief the show was good, naturally, but mostly relief about the casting of their hero, Jack Reacher, the implacable former military detective of no fixed abode. Alan Ritchson might be more chiselled and less grizzled than the…

Mailbox: Zelda-Themed Switch 2s, Kiddy Consoles, “Take My Money, Nintendo” Scenarios – Nintendo Life Letters

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s been a particularly hot summer around these parts. The moon did its best to block out the sun last week and give us some respite from the heat, but we’ve still sitting around Nintendo Life Towers in…

Freeware Metroidvania Classic Remade For 20th Anniversary

While indie games have seemingly become the pontoon floating parts of the industry, there used to be a time when you could count each of them on your fingers. Among the most prolific of early aughts indie developers is Nicklas Nygren, better known as Nifflas, whose ambient, engrossing mini metroidvanias charmed the early scene. To…

Minecraft’s Sulfur Cube mob has unlocked an ocean of creative new minigames

Within seconds of seeing the Minecraft Sulfur Cube, I knew it was going to be something special. The cheerful little mob was revealed to us as part of the Chaos Cubed game drop that launched in June after two months of testing, and it’s a true game-changer. It allows you to transform it into a…

League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals

“Built like a brick wall on roids.” That’s the passive ability Lee Sin—err, Xizun, the blind monk, used to have in League of Legends, which itself used to be a very different-looking game called Onslaught: War of the Immortals. It certainly looks like a game that was pitched the same year Finger Eleven’s “Paralyzer” was…

Now It Will Be Sonic’s Turn To Have A Gun In New Fortnite Update

Sonic. Goes fast. Does loop de loops. Grabs rings. You get the gist. When Fortnite began teasing their upcoming “Gaming Legends” season, the IP pit has hardly been subtle about the inclusion of Sega characters, including their most iconic needlehog. With the season’s trailer online, we finally have a peek at what Sonic might be…