10 Games To Play For People Who Love Hollow Knight: Silksong

As the one-year anniversary of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release approaches, some players, having now beaten the game long ago, might be left with a Hornet-shaped hole in their hearts. While there’s a free DLC, Sea of Sorrow, due sometime this year, given the series’ history, it’s possible we may not see it for some time…

Dawn of War 4’s Necrons bring back a classic Warcraft 3 and Starcraft mechanic

When he isn’t writing for our sister site Wargamer or painting Warhammer, Tim is stuck trying to complete Blue Prince. Published: July 30, 2026 “One of the things that we wanted to try and convey for the Necrons was this kind of relentless forward advance,” says Elliot Verbiest, Senior Game Designer on Dawn of War…

Turnip Mountain Review (Switch eShop)

The 2026 bingo card continues to expand with another unexpected surprise: a spiritual successor to Donkey Kong’s King Of Swing. Released on Game Boy Advance in 2005, this beloved puzzle platformer saw DK traversing vertical walls and avoiding hazards along the climb. Luke Sanderson’s Turnip Mountain takes that idea and adds hand-eye coordination mechanics that…

The New Street Fighter Movie Teaser Brings Blanka’s Electric Attacks To Life

It’s a good time to be a fan of video game movies based on Capcom’s IP, as both live-action Resident Evil and Street Fighter films are on the way. While we’ve seen plenty of director Zach Cregger’s spin on the survival-horror series, Street Fighter has been mostly radio silent since its last trailer dropped–until today,…

PS5 Remaster of Beloved PS Vita RPG Gets Release Date

A surprise 13-year-old PS Vita RPG is coming to home consoles for the first time, with its PS5 version getting a September 2026 release date. Published by Furyu and developed by Studio Saizensen, Exstetra was released in Japan only for the PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. PS5 remaster of 2013 Vita RPG…

Guillermo del Toro is asking for a slightly more forgiving Dead Cells, checkpoints and all, ‘for the elderly players’

I drip-feed roguelikes into my gaming schedule: one too many total resets and my brain could break beyond repair. I always knew this wasn’t an unusual approach but I didn’t ever think it would be an opinion I’d share with one of my favourite filmmakers, Guillermo del Toro. But the world is a strange place….

Twin Peaks and X-Files-inspired Thimbleweed Park 2 announced

Published Jul 30, 2026, 10:15 AM EDT Somehow, Thimbleweed Park returned Image: Terrible Toybox It’s been nearly a decade since point-and-click mystery Thimbleweed Park was released to critical acclaim. While the game did receive a small spinoff in 2020 that wrapped up some loose threads, the classic adventure game seemed finished. So it came as a…

Gears of War: E-Day Preview – Back To The Front Lines

Gears of War has been on a strange journey over the past seven years. 2019 saw the release of Gears Pop, a Clash Royale-inspired mobile game featuring Funko Pop Gears of War characters and the mainline canon entry, Gears 5 (dropping the “of War” – it’s cleaner). In 2020, spin-off Gears Tactics was released to…

SK Hynix’s Q2 2026 Earnings Dip Triggers RAM Stock Fall

As the price of RAM and basically every single component that goes into building video game consoles and PCs continues to rise, there is a faint, borderline imperceptible glimmer of light at the end of the AI datacenter-induced RAMageddon: SK Hynix, one of the three largest chip and DRAM manufacturers in the world, recently had…

A new Path of Exile 2 patch finally fixes the frustrating freezes that have plagued players since day one

If you’ve played Path of Exile 2, particularly if you’ve been grinding your way through the endgame, there’s a good chance you’ve run into crashes or temporary freezes where your gameplay briefly locks up, then reloads the area completely. It’s a problem that’s been persistently plaguing the action RPG “since the very first version of…