No Rest For The Wicked Director Calls Game Critics ‘Untrustworthy’

Thomas Mahler, the lead developer on the Ori games and the forthcoming No Rest for the Wicked, has launched a new website. It’s his answer to Metacritic and Opencritic, but fixes the biggest issue with those sites: their complete lack of saying just how much the gaming press sucks. VideoGamesCritic is a score-aggregating site that describes itself…

Nexus Mods now owns SteamDB, but promises not to change it: “We think that’s worth protecting.”

Chosen, the company that acquired Nexus Mods in June 2025, has announced that it will be taking charge of SteamDB in a deal with the tracking site’s Co-founder and long-time Developer, Pavel ‘xPaw’ Djundik. The site began life in 2013, and has grown into one of the dominant tools used by PC gamers to keep…

Controversial GTA 6 Change Has Fans Flipping Out

With Grand Theft Auto 6 still months away, all fans can do is obsess over any piece of information shared by recent previews of the game. One YouTuber in particular is commanding a lot of attention right now thanks to some totally new details contained in a preview he posted in late August. The personality…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Just Got A Surprise Free Update With 8-Player Split-Screen

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been Nintendo’s golden goose for several years, as it’s the company’s best-selling Switch game of all time and has received various updates over the years, becoming a feature-packed experience. Even with Mario Kart World aiming to usurp its position, Nintendo isn’t done dropping new content into Mario Kart 8 yet, as…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Just Got A Switch 2 Update – Sep 2, 2026

Mario Kart World was the Switch 2’s big launch title, finally providing a sequel to the biggest Mario Kart game of all time. However, today Nintendo updated Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, originally released in 2017, enhancing its Switch 2 support with some added features. It’s a surprising move, as one might assume Nintendo would have…

Dragons Dogma 2 Devs Says RPG Players Want Opposite Things

Ahead of the release of the Dark Arisen expansion on October 8, the team behind the Dragons Dogma 2 DLC, which also functions as a 2.0 overhaul, discussed the differences in player feedback between different regions. Fans in Japan want different things from their RPG-loving counterparts in the rest of the world, and it can…

No Rest for the Wicked 1.0 has been delayed: “We’re close, but close isn’t good enough”

Few games are as high on my personal wishlist as No Rest for the Wicked 1.0. The dark fantasy ARPG is the latest project from Ori developer Moon Studios, and it’s one of the few creations in recent years where I’ve been sucked deep into the early access build instead of waiting for full release….

The Immortal John Triptych Review (Switch 2)

I won’t dive into the plot of the latter two titles, but the first sees you take on the role of an unnamed pilgrim who asks for passage into a church to confess his sins. He’s denied entry, however, when it transpires that his misdeeds were committed outside the church’s jurisdiction. Thankfully, he’s informed of…

Beloved PlayStation 4 Game Goes Offline Today, But There’s Good News

After almost a decade, Grasshopper Manufacture’s beloved multiplayer PS4 game, Let It Die, is going offline today. However, those who want to continue playing the hack-and-slash title can do so with the developer’s latest update. Following a new update, the free-to-play title is available to play offline on PC and console. In its latest patch…

Resident Evil 2’s director believes Capcom has become ‘completely numb to how scary’ recent games have been and wants a ‘non-horror mode’

Something’s wrong with me. No matter how many horror games I play, I just can’t get scared like I used to. Perhaps I’m the problem—maybe a decade of playing horror games pretty much non-stop has irrevocably altered my brain chemistry. Take Resident Evil Requiem, for example—that just doesn’t make the cut for a horror game…