This week’s Epic Games free games are roguelite heaven, with an underworld and a mansion to explore

If Epic Games Store’s freebie last week wasn’t up your alley (and if you’re a lover of roguelites), it’s a two-for-one this week, as both OTXO and Sol Cesto will scratch that itch in completely different ways. This week’s first offering from Epic is Goblinz Publishing’s Sol Cesto, a “tactical and frantic roguelite” in which…

Kingdom Hearts Collection Switch 2 Local Box Art Reportedly Updated

Original Story: [Tue 23rd Jun, 2026 04:45 BST]: Earlier this month, Square Enix revealed it would be releasing a physical version of the Kingdom Hearts Collection on the Switch 2. Apart from the fact it’s a Game-Key Card release, there was also some debate about the key art on the western retail box and the…

EA Says Saudi Takeover Deal Is Set To Close Next Week

Electronic Arts will become a private company again very soon, with the gaming giant set to be acquired by an investors’ group led by the Saudi Arabian government. As revealed in today’s SEC filing, “all regulatory approvals required to complete the Merger have been obtained. Electronic Arts currently expects the Merger to close on or…

PlayStation 5 Getting Promising Historical Action Game

A historical action game that was previously set to come to PC is now coming to PlayStation 5 as well. Sino-Japanese War action shooter The Defiant coming to PS5 at an unspecified date Publisher 4Divinity and developer Hoothanes announced that The Defiant, an upcoming first-person shooter set during the Second Sino-Japanese War in China, will…

Dark Sun, D&D’s most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027

Dark Sun: Official Reveal Trailer | Dungeons & Dragons – YouTube Watch On Look, it was the 1990s. Everybody was super into two things: edginess, and caring deeply about the environment. A Dungeons & Dragons setting where the entire world had been turned into a hostile desert wasteland by exploitative sorcerer-kings and a bunch of…

Everything D&D Announced At Gen Con, Including A Huge World of Warcraft Collab, Star Wars Crossover, And The New Psion Class

Dungeons and Dragons has a lot planned for the coming year. Following the 2024 release of its revised fifth edition ruleset (which the developers have come around to calling “5.5e” after initially resisting), the D&D team has crafted a seasonal content structure reminiscent of a live-service video game like Overwatch or Fortnite. At today’s Gen…

Xbox CEO Reveals Wildly Ambitious Plan For Post-Layoff Growth

A new Asha Sharma memo has hit Xbox. In it, the CEO shed light on her core priorities and goals to get Microsoft’s gaming division back to strong growth and profits after another 1,600 of its employees were laid off at the beginning of the month. Among other things, the plan calls for Xbox to…

Move over, Assassin’s Creed Resynced, you’ve made me fall in love with AC Shadows

Ava is a fan of all things relating to The Sims and Dead by Daylight, to immersive RPGs, MMOs, and cozy games Published: July 30, 2026 Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced quickly became one of my most anticipated games of 2026 once it was announced. But what I didn’t expect was for it to help…

Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader on Switch 2 is finally working after months of chaos

“Feeling confused” and “having fun” usually exist at opposite ends of the experience spectrum for me, but Owlcat’s Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is bringing the two closer together than I would’ve thought possible. I’ve never warred a hammer before, and when Rogue Trader was released in 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 fully occupied my time and…

Here’s How The Late Japanese Actor Toshirō Mifune Became The Face Of Musashi In Onimusha: Way Of The Sword

It’s becoming increasingly common to see deceased actors, musicians, and the like recreated digitally for hologram concerts, movies, video games, and more. There is a wide range of ways studios and creators approach doing so. Using generative AI (for image and voice) is absolutely the worst way to go about it, as it’s a disgrace…