Minecraft shaders 2026 – Java and Bedrock graphics packs

How a game looks is one of its most important factors, especially in an age of photo-realism and ray tracing. So, even if you’re playing one of the most aesthetically uncomplicated video games to come out of recent years, you’re still entitled to want it to look its very best. With Minecraft shaders, you can…

PS Store Drops Pair of Fun Free PS5 Games, Trophies Included

The PS Store has dropped two relaxing free PS5 games that come with straightforward trophies. If you’re looking for something zen without forking out any money, then The Legend of Fireball (PS5, PS4) and Splash of Color (PS5) are worth a few hours of your time. Free PS5 games The Legend of Fireball and Splash…

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – July 3, 2026

Originally released in 2025, Wanderstop is from the mind of Davey Wreden, best known for The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide. Those games, in summary, are a little bit about the process of playing and appreciating a video game and what it means to have and give player choice. There is a lot more…

Diablo music soundtracks are all about the guitar, but Blizzard is changing that

When you think about the music in Diablo games — in fact, when you just think about Diablo games — you hear one thing in your mind: a steel-string guitar, echoing with heavy reverb, playing slowly strummed chords and picked arpeggios over a moody backdrop. This is one of the most distinctive and powerfully evocative…

Man, I Miss Big Bargain Bins Of Used Video Games

There’s this funny little Nintendo DS RPG called Contact, developed by Grasshopper and inspired heavily by Earthbound. Its Metacritic score is hmm, and most people I speak to have never heard of it. But I have profoundly fond memories of this silly little game, and it’s all thanks to a jumbled-up used video game bargain…

Which player-made build do you want to see in A Minecraft Movie Squared? It’s time to pick.

Minecraft is all about community. Sharing your favorite creations with friends, family, and the wider world is one of the true joys of the sandbox game, and that’s something that Mojang is embracing for its upcoming sequel, A Minecraft Movie: Squared. The developer announced during Minecraft Live that it was going to be including a…

Biped 2 Update Promises “Significant Improvements” On Switch 2

Image: META Publishing Meta Publishing has just released a new ‘2.0 Update’ for the cute co-op puzzler Biped 2; one that promises some “significant improvements” on the Switch 2. First launched in November 2025, Biped 2 has now supposedly reached its “ultimate form”, with the new update bringing new puzzles to all 17 levels. Each…

Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, ‘a testament to what CD Projekt does best’

It’s hard to imagine now, but Cyberpunk 2077 was an unmitigated disaster when it launched back in 2020. The PC version wasn’t too bad, relatively speaking, but the console version was so wretched that Sony literally kicked it off the PlayStation Store. It was so far gone that several months after launch, with CD Projekt…

Fan Favorite 2023 PS5 RPG 67% Off on PS Store, Lowest Price

A popular 2023 PS5 action RPG is 67% off in a limited-time PS Store deal that ends in two weeks. Developed by Hexworks and published by CI Games, Lords of the Fallen is a sequel to the 2014 game of the same name. The RPG is currently at its lowest price on the PS Store….

Erosion Creative Director Talks Adventure Time Influence And Creating A Reactive World That Changes Each Time You Die

Erosion was one of the most promising upcoming titles I checked out during Summer Game Fest.  Developed by a small team at Plot Twist (makers of The Last Case of Benedict Fox), the voxel-based game stars a nameless cowboy on a mission to rescue his kidnapped daughter; the twist is that time advances 10 years…