Video Game Website Has Controversial Plan To Only Pay Per Click

Valnet, the self-proclaimed “leading digital media investment company” behind the likes of Polygon, GameRant, OpenCritic, Collider, and over a dozen more gaming, technology, and lifestyle websites, isn’t known for paying its freelance writers well. But new “Pay Per Session” contracts issued to writers and editors at TheGamer on May 21 threaten to break new ground…

Kingdom Hearts Cloud Version Switch Demos Removed From eShop (US)

When the Kingdom Hearts cloud versions were originally made available via the Switch eShop, players could test out a “free demo” before actually buying the full experience. In an update, the same demos have now been removed from Nintendo’s digital shop in the US (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News). In saying this,…

Crushed in Time preview: the most riveting puzzle game of summer 2026

You don’t typically put Sherlock Holmes, P.G. Wodehouse, and Wallace and Gromit in the same thought — unless you’re Pascal Cammisotto, writer and director for Draw Me A Pixel’s upcoming time-travel adventure Crushed in Time. Cammisotto tells Polygon he used these as starting points for building on his previous work, There Is No Game: Wrong…

PS Store Surprise Drops Free PS5 Games Worth Playing

The PS Store continues to stealth-drop free PS5 games, the latest batch of which is intriguing enough that we recommend checking it out. One of the new games — which got a spot on PlayStation’s YouTube channel — is an “app” of sorts based on a JRPG. PS5 players can download two free games from…

Dead by Daylight finally confirms Jason Voorhees after an agonizing 13-hour livestream

It’s finally official: Jason Voorhees is the new Dead by Daylight Killer. One of the most iconic figures in horror history is finally stepping into The Fog to mark the tenth anniversary of DBD. Behaviour Interactive certainly made us wait for it, however. The developer suggested players should “tune in” to its YouTube and Twitch…

McDonald’s Remakes Vintage Mega Man Fan Video For Coffee Ad

In 2007, a group of Mega Man fans under the name Team.Nekokan uploaded an animated music video titled “Air Man ga Taosenai.” Also known as “I Cannot Defeat Airman,” the fan song describes a fruitless campaign to beat the Mega Man 2 boss with a box fan in his chest. It’s a viral video so…

A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP

Troika’s Temple of Elemental Evil came out in 2003, adapting an old school tabletop adventure into videogame form while being remarkably true to the then-current third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons rules. It’s pretty good! I like the bits where you doss around the village of Hommlet and the piratical cove of Nulb more…

This popular VPN has been shut down, and I’m glad

Though I champion VPN services as perfectly legitimate privacy tools and totally understand why people use them, I’ve encountered a number of people who think that they’re quite dodgy, or possibly even illegal. It’s services like First VPN which reinforce this negative reputation – so I’m glad it was shut down this week. For those…

Hilltop Works Announce Translation Of Kowloon Walled City RPG

The world of fan translation patches have been booming in recent years, making video game curios and vintage gems more accessible around the world. At the forefront of this wave are Hilltop Works, a collective behind top notch patches for games I assumed would remain out of reach. Today they’ve announced a surprise project: A…

Sonic Frontiers “Definitive Edition” Has Been Rated In Korea

Original Story: [Wed 25th Mar, 2026 05:30 GMT]: Sonic Frontiers took the series in a new direction when it launched in 2022 with its “open-zone” design, and it seems Sega might not be entirely done with it just yet… As highlighted by Gematsu, The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has recently rated Sonic…