Here’s Every Game We Played At Gamescom 2026

Introduction Gamescom 2026 has arrived, and everyone here on the Game Informer editorial team has a schedule packed with back-to-back appointments. From Control Resonant to other exciting games like The Witcher 3’s upcoming Songs of the Past expansion, we plan to bring you our thoughts as quickly as possible in this roundup.  For smaller games…

Star Wars Effects Artist Phil Tippett Shutters Studio

Phil Tippett, a Hollywood effects wizard with a specialty in stop motion animation, has rendered aliens, machines and monsters across Star Wars, RoboCop and Jurassic Park. In 1984, Tippett and his wife Jules Roman founded Tippett Studio, a visual effects shop that contributed to dozens of blockbusters. After years of money trouble and a wild…

Drone Defense 2 codes (August 2026)

If you’re struggling to fight through 20 waves of teeny, tiny factory workers, you’ll want to redeem these new Drone Defense 2 codes before they break through the bunker. Put things off, and you might end up repeating the same map a few too many times to count. Drone Defense 2 drops you into a…

12 Video Games That Deserve Movie or TV Adaptations

Despite a generally negative response from critics, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie surpassed $1 billion at the box office. It was the second Super Mario movie to accomplish that feat in just a few short years, and it joins other franchises like Sonic the Hedgehog that have recently been keeping Hollywood producers very happy. In…

LEGO Teases Five New Smart Play Pokémon, Arriving In 2027

Image: Alex Olney / Nintendo Life During a Pokémon LEGO Smart Play demonstration at the second day of PokémonXP, the Lego Group announced new sets would be arriving in 2027. A short teaser trailer featured the silhouettes of five Pokémon as part of this announcement. Trainers believe the designs are based on…spoiler warning…Charcadet, Grookey, Mankey,…

Stuntman: Hollywood Adds Jurassic World To Its – Aug 27, 2026

Stuntman: Hollywood, first revealed during June’s PlayStation State of Play, resurrects the dormant franchise with a new entry that lets players perform wild vehicular stunts across the sets of licensed franchises, including Back to the Future, Mad Max, and Knight Rider. A new trailer reveals Jurassic World as Stuntman Hollywood’s next IP. The trailer showcases…

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers, dies aged 85

Transformers: Devastation Behind the Scenes with Peter Cullen – YouTube Watch On In his review of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Dan Stapleton referred to “the tingly nerd-joy of hearing original Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen’s authoritative dialogue”. Every time the character appeared on screen, as he did many times in videogames like Transformers: Devastation…

James Pond Co-Creator Calls AI-Rife Remake ‘Soulless’

Last week, System 3 was under fire regarding the upcoming James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough collection. Having released a trailer edited like meemaw’s 94th birthday e-card and rife with AI generated art, the publisher snapped back at critics by claiming that AI wasn’t even involved in development. It was a baffling statement…

Build a Base RNG codes (August 2026)

With its whole gimmick borrowing heavily from the RNG games that popularized the platform a few years back, these new Build a Base RNG codes will boost your luck and hopefully get you that powerful new cannon you need to best that next boss wave. Build a Base RNG sets you up with a grassy…

Xbox Kept At Least One Big Promise In Its Most Tumultuous Year Ever

When it drastically increased the price of Game Pass Ultimate on October 1, 2025, Xbox made a promise in a now-deleted Xbox Wire post: “Ultimate subscribers now get access to over 75 day-one releases a year.”  In the year since, a lot has changed at Xbox. It has hired a new CEO, laid off thousands…