The Biggest Booths And Coolest Sights Of Gamescom 2026

Each year in August, the gaming world descends upon Cologne, Germany, for Gamescom. Gamescom 2026 featured some of the biggest upcoming and ongoing games, with massive booths reminiscent of the E3 showfloors of old. Not only was Game Informer in attendance at the show that attracts upwards of 300,000 attendees annually, but we had a…

Legendary Final Fantasy Artist Gives The Weekend An RPG Makeover

Between openly sampling a number of Japanese anime and music on his albums to his very recent, very public fumbling of Tae Takemi as a love interest in his playthrough of Persona 5, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye has never been coy about his nerdier interests. In his most recent trip to Japan he managed to…

Don’t expect the next Deadlock update until “late September,” Valve announces

Valve has finally responded to speculation about when the next big Deadlock update will arrive, and it’s not as soon as you might have hoped. It’s been seven months since the release of Old Gods, New Blood, the major overhaul that added six more heroes to the MOBA, and speculation that the next one could…

Pokémon TCG Pocket Adds Dual-Type Cards October 2026

At a PokémonXP panel this weekend, The Pokémon Company announced its popular mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket will be adding Dual-type cards this October. This will be “starting with Mega Mewtwo X ex”. This Pokémon card will be a dual Psychic and Fighting-type. Here’s a first look: Image: The Pokémon Company This same update will…

PSA: PlayStation 5’s Hottest New Accessory Is Out Now

In case you missed it, a major new PlayStation 5 accessory is out now, and it’s already out of stock at several retailers. PlayStation’s 27-inch gaming monitor with DualSense charging hook launched yesterday for $349. PlayStation 27″ Gaming Monitor is a limited-quantity accessory for now It seems that Sony released a very limited quantity of…

‘Well, that didn’t go as planned’ says EA as it footage of its Iron Man game leaks online

EA has confirmed that leaked footage of Motive’s Iron Man game is real, after an unauthorised version of a trailer for the superhero game appeared online on Friday. “Well, that didn’t go as planned,” EA wrote on the official X account for Marvel’s Iron Man in response to the leaked video (via IGN). “But now…

Mega Man: Dual Override Preview: Mega Man’s Dual Override Mode

Since its announcement, Capcom has made it fairly clear that despite the Dual Override subtitle, this entry in the Mega Man series is not a spin-off. It is a mainline Mega Man game despite being the first to not end in a number, but I wanted to be completely sure. “Yes, that is correct. This…

8 Completely Unhinged RPG Battle Themes You Need To Listen To

Earlier today, my partner came into the room and asked if I’d ever be interested in playing the 2007 Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon. This was sort of a weird question, even in our very gaming-centric household, but apparently the reason he asked is that the game is getting an unofficial PC port (as spotted…

It feels like a fantasy Ghost in the Shell.” The Valheim devs want an animated movie: “Netflix, call us.

“The reason we have the animated trailers and everything, it comes from me sitting down one evening and being like, I want to make Valheim: The Anime.” Robin Eyre, Valheim‘s Creative Lead, talks us through just why he went all-in on slick cinematics, what he hopes for the future, and how things didn’t quite turn…

Rachel McAdams’ 10/10 Time-Travel Movie Is Officially Coming to Streaming Next Week

Nobody in the history of cinema has had more time-traveling husbands than Rachel McAdams. Four years after she starred in The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) opposite Eric Bana, McAdams played Mary in About Time (2013). While the movie initially seems like a generic time-travel romance in which Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) uses his family’s hereditary…