As an iconic JRPG series you’ve always been afraid of gets another stellar remake, it’s finally time to try Trails in the Sky

There are those games that you always hear great things about, but the prospect of starting them just feels too intimidating. When it comes to the best JRPGs, there’s a good chance you’ve tried a Final Fantasy or three, and most likely also some Dragon Quest. One of the most revered series has long been…

37 Years Later, the Best ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Dad Quote Is Still in a League of Its Own

​ According to his essays in the 10th anniversary collection of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson deliberately chose to not give Calvin’s parents actual names. While readers occasionally get a glimpse into their inner lives, through Dad’s cycling habit or Mom’s love of reading, both characters’ primary relevance to the strip is in how they…

Dune: Awakening’s Massive New Update Is Perfect For Parents Or Single-Player Fans, And It’s At Its Lowest Price, Too

I have over 50 hours in Dune: Awakening. The soft-MMO, mostly survival-centric game became one of my favorite games of last year. However, as a parent—and generally busy guy—playing Dune: Awakening has become less fun and more chore-inducing. The eventual endgame of fighting other players also took away some of what made Funcom’s take on…

Theater Staff Recreate First Resident Evil For Zach Cregger’s Film

This weekend, Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie abstained from recreating any specific chronicle of famed S.T.A.R.S. members and opted to follow a regular joe schmoe during the collapse of Raccoon City. The unorthodox approach has wedged hardcore fans against critics, as the chasm between accuracy and overall quality remains pretty vast. The direction has inspired…

Could 2027 see the beginning of an end to the PC pricing crisis?

If you’ve been looking to build or buy a gaming PC recently, 2026 hasn’t been a kind year. AI server farms have continued to buy up hardware at staggering rates. As such, memory makers have shifted much of their production capacity towards high bandwidth memory destined for AI accelerators, rather than for consumer products. That…

Splatoon Raiders Dev Team Apparently Has No Plans For DLC

Image: Nintendo If you’ve been wondering about Splatoon Raiders getting any DLC in the future, there’s supposedly nothing on the menu right now. Speaking to Famitsu recently, the game’s producer Seita Inoue says there are currently no plans for DLC, or updates related to game balance, as this title is designed to be a complete…

Kojima Loves Sony Despite Being Blindsided by Physint Decision

In his first interview since Physint‘s publisher change, Hideo Kojima said he still respects Sony despite its decision to pull funding for the project. The Kojima Productions boss also dismissed recent reports of Death Stranding‘s commercial performance, insisting the studio is in “a healthy, profitable state.” Kojima can’t say if Physint will release on Sony…

The latest co-op indie game to take over the internet is like one of my favourite board games, just with bombs

They say if you give a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter it will almost surely write Shakespeare’s complete works, word for word. But what happens when you give three monkeys with restricted access to their senses a limited amount of time to defuse a bomb? It explodes,…

Jared Kushner Reportedly Likes Playing Video Games With The Saudi Crown Prince

In 2018, Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, reportedly had journalist Jamal Khashoggi assassinated; his body was cut into pieces with a bone saw. According to The New Yorker, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, likes playing video games with MBS, and that was even before they went into business together to…

Total War Warhammer 40k learns from CA’s fantasy trilogy to craft “a single experience” that will just keep growing

Ken coolly serves the hottest news stories and has played, we think, every game ever made. Published: September 20, 2026 Total War Warhammer 40k is escalating the grandiosity of Creative Assembly’s longstanding strategy games with the brutal bombast of Games Workshop’s grimdark sci-fi setting. Warhammer 40k fans might boast an above-average willingness to study a…