The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – May 1

I rolled credits on Vampire Crawlers just in time to get my review for it posted this morning, but trust that I still have lots of dungeon crawling in my future. Yes, it offers plenty to do after seeing credits, with lots of unlocks still to go, but even if it didn’t, I’d still be…

Shooter From Imagine Dragons Singer Wrapping Up After Just 3 Weeks

Last Flag, a newly released CTF-like online-only competitive multiplayer shooter from the game studio co-created by the lead singer of Imagine Dragons and his brother, isn’t going to get any new content past an already planned update, as the devs admit it failed to find an audience on Steam. The shooter is the latest example…

How to find and destroy the Arc Raiders Turbine, and where to find Turbine Compressors

The Riven Tides update brought us a good many things: a lovely beach resort, some new gadgets to help with keeping our legs intact, and just so many buried model ships. It also added the Arc Turbine, a new Arc threat that doesn’t seem to do much until you find yourself being pelted by lightning…

Neverness to Everness interactive maps

Published May 1, 2026, 2:52 PM EDT Your guide to the big city Graphic: Polygon | Source images: Hotta Studio/Perfect World Games The Neverness to Everness map is a lot like a real-life big city. It’s a veritable maze crammed with fantastic sights and lovely little shops tucked quietly away down a back alley — along…

Titanium Court Wants To Change Your Heart

AP Thomson, game designer and developer of Titanium Court, is a man after my own heart. Yes, exactly. I mean a Golden Sun lover. I ask him to introduce himself as a warmup question for our interview, and about two sentences in he catches sight of the pack-in instruction manual for Game Boy Advance classic…

Move Over, Indy – This New Game Boy Color Indie Wants Some ‘Fortune & Glory’

The release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Switch 2 has us here at Nintendo Life Towers cracking out our 4K discs for a cheeky rewatch. A little righteous swashbuckling and fantastical archaeology in these troubled times is just what the doctor ordered. However, there’s another treasure-hunting game that caught our eye recently,…

Remaster of 26-Year-Old PlayStation Exclusive RPG Leaked

A beloved PlayStation exclusive RPG that originally released in 2000 is getting remastered, a leak has revealed. Known in North America as Tales of Destiny II, Tales of Eternia is a Bandai Namco action RPG that was first released on the PS1 and was later ported to the PSP in 2006. It has not been…

Battlefield 6 Season 3 completely transforms vehicle damage and repairs, in the name of “calculated risks”

Battlefield 6 Season 3 will bring major “targeted improvements” to improve vehicle gameplay, DICE Game Designer Chris Matte has revealed in a new developer deep dive. After studying player feedback and statistics from the past months of the multiplayer game, Matte acknowledges that “the moment to moment experience hasn’t always felt as satisfying as it…

Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: ‘The critique is fair … we got work to do’

The narrative FPS Industria 2 caught my eye in 2024 with a creepy trailer that gave me serious Half-Life 2 vibes. Set years after the original game, it tells the story of a woman trapped in a rather awful parallel dimension that’s being ravaged by an out-of-control artificial intelligence. It looks and sounds very cool,…

Vampire Crawlers Review – Dazzling Dungeons

History has shown that we humans like the movement of light – babies, children, teenagers, adults, and even the elderly are drawn to flashing colors with matching rhythmic sounds. It’s why slot machines, televisions, phones, and yes, video games, keep us glued to their presentation. Poncle’s latest game, a first-person dungeon crawler aptly titled Vampire…