Everything We Learned From The Gears Of War: E-Day Direct

Gears of War: E-Day is the next mainline entry in the popular Xbox franchise. But this isn’t a sequel to Gears 5. Instead, this upcoming installment takes the series back in time and shows players the beginning of the conflict with the Locust on Emergence Day and all the chaos that followed. During today’s big…

Where Birds Sleep is a game about control. Or, well, your lack of control

The very essence of videogame design is giving the player control. You choose where your character goes; you choose what your character does. In Where Birds Sleep, however, you don’t get to choose. You don’t get to be the good guy, yet you don’t get to be the bad guy. You live by the consequences…

Minecraft Dungeons 2 Joins A Jam-Packed September Schedule

Xbox and Mojang have confirmed that Minecraft Dungeons 2 will launch on the Switch 1 & 2 on 29th September 2026, joining what is already a jam-packed schedule as publishers try to get ahead of GTA 6. Okay granted, it’s not toooo bad if you’re just on Switch 2, with LEGO Batman: Legacy of the…

Our 11 Favorite Games From the 2026 PC Gaming Show

I look forward to playing this game one day, but I also really like its unreleased state, because the experience I get from watching new trailers is always such an insane roller coaster. There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is a renovation game, a la Powerwash Simulator, except there’s also a narrative, a mysterious…

The Big Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Trailer: 9 Things We Noticed

On June 5 at Summer Game Fest, director Naoki Hamaguchi appeared on stage to give us our first proper look at Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the third and final instalment in Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy. However, we didn’t just get one trailer, we actually got two, as the initial reveal trailer was…

The Tomorrow War is Chris Pratt’s most underrated action movie, and it’s free on streaming

Chris Pratt is no stranger to taking on movie roles where picking up a big gun and shooting at massive monsters is just an average Tuesday. While most fans of Pratt will either remember him from his role as Star-Lord, the reluctant and comedic leader of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, or as dinosaur-handler Owen…

Valheim’s gorgeous Deep North brings it to 1.0, but it’s still a “canvas to continue painting on”

Valheim 1.0 is coming, and with it we’ll be travelling to the Deep North. It’s the last area of the map to be fleshed out, and developer Iron Gate is finally almost ready to unleash it upon the world. To discover what it has to offer, I joined Producer Sara Uvalic and Creative Director Robin…

There’s suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall

While there’s never any shortage of games releasing on Steam any given day, the release calendar for big-budget game productions has felt somewhat thin this year. The repeat delay announcements from games trying to escape the blast radius of GTA 6’s gigaton sales detonation seemed to indicate that the back half of the year could…

Xbox Clarifies Its Exclusivity Strategy Moving Forward, Wants You To Buy An Xbox

Today’s Xbox Games Showcase was the first under the leadership of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who has pledged to consider making changes to Xbox’s exclusivity strategy. Now, another Xbox executive, chief content officer Matt Booty, has clarified Microsoft’s position on exclusives going forward. He told Gamertag Radio, “Our big multiplayer games [and] live-service games are…

Mouthwashing Developer Wrong Organ Told Us Why Its Next Game, Carcass Clad, Is So Different

Mouthwashing is one of my favorite horror games ever, and a lot of that is due to its heavy focus on writing and atmosphere, prioritizing narrative. It’s surprising, then, that developer Wrong Organ’s next game, Carcass Clad, is so different. Shown off at today’s PC Gaming Show, it’s a multiplayer tank game, where three players…