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The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – April 24

I often contend to anyone who will listen that 2015’s You Must Build A Boat from designer Luca Redwood, to this day, is my favorite mobile game. It is the sequel to the also-excellent 10000000 and combines a great-feeling match-three puzzle game with some simple base building and RPG mechanics. Since playing those games, I…

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Goes On Sale On Anniversary

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 got a small update for its one-year anniversary today, but what if you’re one of the people who has somehow managed to skip the game despite 12 months of acclaim and awards show sweeps? New haircuts for its cast of sad people mean nothing to you, right? Well, have you considered…

Alice: Madness Returns Dev Put Dildos On A Snail To Shut EA Up

A retired PlayStation boss makes the case for PS5 games on PC. Atari expands its retro game emulation capabilities. And the “efficiency” purge at Meta continues. It’s your Morning Checkpoint for April 24, 2026, where we can safely report that the next Halo game is not a pottery spin-off. I can’t tell you what might…

Expedition 33’s first year was full of success and one notable misstep

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was released a year ago today on April 24, 2025, and instantly became one of the most talked-about and beloved games of the generation. It exceeded all expectations on its way to becoming a massive surprise success story. But, looking back, maybe that instant success shouldn’t have been so surprising. When…

Yakuza Creator’s New Studio Deletes, Then Restores YouTube Channel

Yesterday, fans of the Yakuza games were sent into a panic when it was revealed that Nagoshi Studio, the studio started by series co-creator Toshihiro Nagoshi after he left Ryu Ga Gotoku to make spiritual successor Gang of Dragon, had seemingly deleted its YouTube channel amid greater concerns that parent company NetEase was preparing to…

Saros Review – Return Stronger

Saros might be a roguelite, but its definition of a “run” is definitely broader than most. The latest game from developer Housemarque shares plenty of similarities with the studio’s previous game, Returnal–both are sci-fi third-person shooters with a bullet-hell tinge–yet Saros takes some bold swings that clearly differentiate the two. By flipping Housemarque’s roguelite formula…

Saros Review – At The Mountains Of Magnificence

Discovering a powerful (and profitable) new element on a faraway planet is a sci-fi staple that is especially prevalent in modern media, but Saros embraces this trope by making Lucenite’s home planet, Carcosa, the stuff of inescapable but wholly engaging nightmares. Protagonist Arjun fights to maintain his sanity, find a lost love, and stay alive…

Saros Review: A Psychological Challenge Worth Pushing Through

Much like the roguelike hellscape it takes place in, even thinking about Saros offers me something new every time I reflect on Housemarque’s roguelike shooter. Much like Returnal, the game’s spiritual predecessor, it revels in abstract worldbuilding and symbolism that may seem unwieldy and obtuse, but as I bash my head against the walls of…

Event Horizon’s sequel comic just brought back a 232-year-old Lt. Starck

The next chapter of the Event Horizon saga is officially unfolding in the comics. After the massive success of the prequel miniseries Event Horizon: Dark Descent, IDW has dropped a sequel set 200 years in the future titled Inferno. In its first issue, the series introduces a new super-villain in devil-worshiping billionaire Daniel Durante, along…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake Comparison Screenshots

After a lot of past leaks, rumors, and reports, Ubisoft has officially revealed Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a complete remake of the original Black Flag. Built using Ubisoft’s latest version of its in-house Anvil engine, this upcoming remake looks great. But when you compare it directly against the original 13-year-old game, Resynced looks even…