Drop everything and grab the popcorn: Majuular’s 4.5-hour documentary on Ultima Online is here to devour your weekend

Ultima Online Retrospective | The Last Hurrah – YouTube Watch On I’ll make this quick: Whatever you had planned for the weekend, you’ve got to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late ’90s. Six months in the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is back with the (I believe) penultimate video in his…

The Video Games And More You Should Play This Weekend – September 25, 2026

Twisted Tower does not try to hide its BioShock inspiration. Instead, it embraces it, using what players know of BioShock to set expectations and surprise; after playing through its story in about 8 hours in just two sittings, I can now add “delight.” It takes place in the 20th Century and stars a man trying…

Money Can’t Buy True Love, And Homegrown Tomatoes

Everyone who knows me even somewhat closely has, in the last few years, had to listen to me gush about how much I love participating in a farm share program. In winter, I pay a sizeable (but reasonable for what I get) quantity of money to a local farm to help fund their seeds and…

Shigaku codes (September 2026)

Keep on top of these new Shigaku codes like you do your homework and you’ll be at the top of your class in no time. You do your homework, right?  Shigaku is a fresh contender to the Japanese school life simulator. Nipping at the heels of games like Gakuran and Rintama High, it’s almost as…

StarCraft Devs Answer Our Biggest Questions at BlizzCon

Game Informer interviewed the StarCraft team at BlizzCon 2026 about the open-world shooter and asked our biggest questions about the game’s production. Lead developers Dan Hay and AnaLee Haertling share new details about the upcoming project and the themes and plot points Blizzard considers important as it works to ship the new game in 2030….

Soulslike ‘Fountains’ Gets A Free Switch 2 Upgrade Pack One Week After Launch

We’re into the final week of September and the video games have been coming so thick and fast that it’s hard to keep up. One such game — indie Soulslike Fountains — released just last week on 17th September, although perhaps missing out on day one wasn’t such a bad thing in this case: a…

Fans’ PS6 Physical Disc Hopes Rise After PlayStation’s New Developer Survey

PlayStation fans get a potential update on the future of physical discs following a reported developer survey. Although Sony Interactive Entertainment previously announced it would end physical disc production for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028. On the Broken Silicon podcast, Tom, the creator of the Moore’s Law Is Dead YouTube channel, said…

Nippon Ichi, NIS America Head Says Company Is ‘Researching’ AI

As more and more game companies are growing a little bolder about just straight-up admitting that huge chunks of their games are AI generated, there are still some exhibiting a bit more caution. One of those appears to be Nippon Ichi Software, developer of Disgaea and publisher of series like Trails and Ys. I spoke…

Re Adventures codes (September 2026)

Hop into this slick cityscape to use these new Re Adventures codes and you’ll earn yourself all the free cursed tokens and perfect stat cubes you’ll need to perfect a powerful team of anime heroes and villains. Re Adventures takes the teachings of so many other anime tower defense games that have come before it,…

This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)

Scottish grandmother Cath Bowie’s hunger for bloodshed is celebrated by thousands. Recently named the world’s oldest female Fortnite steamer by Guinness World Records, Bowie began playing the battle royale behemoth under the nom de guerre grumpygran1948 in 2017. Now streaming for an audience of over 24,000 followers, she was introduced to the game by her…