World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: ‘We were gonna lose big, like real big’

If there’s one thing that the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling was known for in the 1990s, it was wasting absolutely colossal amounts of billionaire Ted Turner’s cash. You could say that the media mogul could afford it, but WCW’s spendthrift ways were because it was always something of a vanity project: Turner made his name…

Ex-Bethesda Exec Says The Elder Scrolls 6 Maker Isn’t Part Of Something ‘Genuine’ Or ‘Authentic’ At Microsoft

Pete Hines had worked at Bethesda for 24 years before he announced his retirement in 2023, just a month after Starfield‘s release. The outgoing VP of comms and marketing said in a new interview that he’d been planning to leave for a while after the Microsoft acquisition concluded because he felt “powerless to do what…

Google Play Store Removes Doki Doki Literature Club Four Months After Launch

Doki Doki Literature Club, the dating sim-themed horror game, has been removed from the Google Play store. According to publisher Serenity Forge, the reasoning provided was that the game violated the storefront’s terms of service with its “depiction of sensitive themes.” Doki Doki Literature Club was first released on Steam in 2017, and is notorious…

Gallery: Fangamer’s UFO 50 Deluxe Edition Is Packed With Nostalgic Goodness

Image: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life Mossmouth’s excellent retro compilation UFO 50 was one of our games of the year when it finally arrived on Switch back in August 2025. The 50 games of the fictional LX system have gobbled up hours (and hours) of our time in the months since, and just when we…

iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 R17 review

Verdict Power, versatility, and looks combine in this ultra-capable, high-end gaming PC. So long as you don’t mind having a PC with a case as large as this one – and if you don’t mind having to jump into the motherboard BIOS to fine tune the fans to run a bit quieter – this is…

Fortnite Adding An Arc Raiders-Style Game With Disney Characters – Report

Epic Games and Disney are working together on multiple upcoming games as part of the mysterious Disney x Fortnite project, and now one of them has seemingly been revealed early–it’s probably not what you expect. Bloomberg reported that the first new game to come from Disney’s $1.5 billion investment into Epic Games will launch in…

Crimson Desert Devs Lay Out Extensive Roadmap For Updates

It’s been roughly three weeks since Crimson Desert dropped, and it seems like developer Pearl Abyss is still hard at work fixing problems that emerged during its less than stellar launch week. Now, the team has shared a roadmap for the game’s next few months, showing off both quality-of-life changes as well as some pretty…

Unique PS5 Shooter Unlike Any You’ve Played Out on PS Store Today

Another day, another great game added to the PS5‘s growing library. Throughout 2026, some of the best games that players can experience have been added to Sony’s latest video game console. From survival horror sequels to space RPGs, there seems to be something for everyone. That includes Tamashika, a unique shooter available on the PlayStation…

Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that’s fine by him: ‘You’ve got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger’

I’m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don’t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I’ve done everything⁠—and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish everything. I thought I did…

Overwatch director kills a Tracer butt conspiracy 10 years later

Have you ever watched someone have a meltdown as they sketch a police investigation chalk outline over the curve of a video game character’s butt? Maybe you had to be there, but this was the scenario that unfolded in 2016 after Blizzard changed Tracer’s victory pose. And 10 years later, former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan…