Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games & Accessories For August & September 2026

Image: Bethesda As usual, the number of games coming out really picks up pace as we slide into the latter months of the year. September and October are looking packed, and there’s still a bunch labelled “TBA 2026” which need to slot in somewhere. Some will surely slip into next year, but be prepared for…

Preorder Beast of Reincarnation At A Discount And Get Some DLC For Free

Beast of Reincarnation is an interesting action RPG. Developed by Game Freak, the studio behind the beloved Pokemon series, it’s a chance for the developer to step out from Pikachu’s enormous shadow and create something fresh. If you’re looking to give it a chance, you can preorder a Steam key at a discount, making it…

Beloved 1999 PlayStation Adventure Game Getting PS5 Remaster

A classic ’90s PlayStation game is getting a remaster for PS5. The new game will feature some big changes to bring back a fan-favorite character. PS1 game Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos headed to PS5 and PS4 at an unspecified date Argonaut Games has announced that Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos will be…

The games industry’s ‘fear of risk is currently the largest risk it faces’ according to Nuclear Throne’s producer

With videogame budgets ballooning and competition ever intensifying there’s a huge amount riding on whether a modern videogame succeeds or fails. As such, publishers are increasingly turning to the safest bets possible, like sequels in proven series or shiny remakes of classic games. It’s the exact strategy that Xbox has said it’s falling back on…

The most important character in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t even in the original poem

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a movie adaptation of a massive text that dates back thousands of years. Homer’s epic poem is over 500 pages long in most English translations, featuring Gods, monsters, and disasters that delay Odysseus’ journey home. On the road to adaptation, some changes were bound to be made, and while a…

Slay The Spire 2’s New Update Tries To Make The Silent Less OP

It’s been another two weeks, which means we all get another Slay the Spire 2 beta patch. This week’s v0.110.0 patch isn’t anywhere near as silly as the previous patch—in fact, the latest patch is actually trying to undo some of the silliness that was introduced in patch v0.109.0–but it does feature a wealth of…

Escape From Tarkov is adding a battle pass

The first Escape From Tarkov season is about to start, and Battlestate Games has confirmed that, as previously hinted at by Studio Head Nikita Buyanov, it will feature a battle pass system. However, the extraction shooter’s developer has now calmed fears of potential microtransactions by confirming that the Kord Breach battle pass will be free,…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st August)

Now then, what’s everyone playing this weekend? Mai Ladyman, Video Producer My backlog has been looming over me again, so outside of work I’ve not really been able to play any different games; however, I did manage to finish a couple this week. This includes completing the story for Pokémon Pokopia (at last) after 95+…

PS Plus Extra April 2026 Game Disappears From Catalog

A popular PS5 action game that was added to PS Plus Extra in April 2026 has mysteriously disappeared from the catalog. Squirrel With a Gun was removed from the catalog sometime over the past day or two, but the game isn’t officially scheduled to leave the service. Subscribers who previously downloaded Squirrel With a Gun…

In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its ‘most popular CD-ROM titles’

Well well well—what a difference, uh, 30 years makes, huh? While the Sony of 2026 is insisting that it should, or must, carry on with the execution of physical media for its forthcoming PlayStation 6, and has backed away from releasing its prestige games on PC, the Sony of 1996 was in a very different…