Games

Hideo Kojima Reveals His Ideal Way to Die: 'In a Movie Theater, Right Before the Film Starts'
The legendary game director wants his final moment to be that perfect, quiet beat of anticipation just before the lights go down and the movie begins.

Lego’s New Donkey Kong Arcade Set Brings the Classic 1981 Game to Life with Interactive Features
The 1,367-piece build actually lets you roll barrels and jump over them using a joystick and lever, making it the most playable Lego Nintendo set yet.

Phasmophobia Artist's Retreat Challenge Guide: Rewards & Tips for 13 Willow Street Rework
The Artist's Retreat challenge demands 50 successful ghost identifications on the revamped 13 Willow Street, but we've got the cursed object spawns and hiding spots to help you survive the grind.

Rainbow Six Siege Esports World Cup 2026: Full Team List & Play-In Groups Revealed
The 22-team field is locked for Paris, with defending champions Team Secret returning despite a worst-in-league record and a stacked Play-In bracket that could shake up the entire tournament.

Xbox's PC Backward Compatibility Now Runs Xbox 360 Games—What This Means for the Future
Microsoft is quietly turning Xbox 360 classics into native PC ports, skipping emulation entirely—and that changes everything for backward compatibility.

Game with Your Tongue: Mouth Pad Bluetooth Lets You Control Your PC
The Mouth Pad is a real Bluetooth mouthpiece that turns your tongue into a mouse cursor, and it's already available for pre-order — opening up gaming and computing for people who can't use their hands.

Xbox Game Pass Just Dropped a Highly Rated 2025 Exploration Game – Here's What to Expect
Hell is Us drops its map markers and compass to trust you to get lost—and it's exactly the kind of challenge Xbox Game Pass needed right now.

Where Winds Meet Hidden Mountains: Ironheart Centipede World Boss Guide
The Ironheart Centipede world boss is hiding behind a chest at the top of a crumbling path above Hidden Mountains' city entrance — and most players walk right past it.

Miyamoto Defends Nintendo's Remake Strategy: 'Remasters Lead to Future Developments'
Miyamoto says remakes aren't nostalgia plays—they're the blueprint for Nintendo's next big ideas.

Hasbro Scales Back Game Plans After $56M Loss, But Exodus and Warlock Still Safe for 2027
Hasbro's $56 million write-down is a sobering course correction, but the publisher is doubling down on its two biggest bets for 2027.

GSC Game World: Founder Had No Role in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Negotiations or Development
The studio's founder claimed he knew about Microsoft's funding, but GSC Game World says he was cut out of both negotiations and development entirely — and the reason may be a legal agreement.

Nintendo's Miyamoto calls short-term profit focus a 'massive failure' that 'burned through' talent
The legendary designer's blunt critique lands as the industry reels from layoffs and burnout—proof that chasing quarterly earnings can destroy the very talent that makes games great.

PC Shipments Slump for First Time in Over a Year—And Analysts Warn It'll Get Worse
The post-pandemic PC upgrade cycle is officially over, enterprise buyers are sitting on their hands, and consumers see little reason to buy—so get ready for steeper discounts and a longer road ahead.

Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk
This Floppy Disk Game Jam asks indie devs to cram an entire playable game onto a single 1.44 MB floppy, reviving the art of extreme constraint-driven design.

Bit Reactor: No Official Mod Support for Star Wars Zero Company, But 'Huge Respect' for Modders
No official mod tools means the community will have to do it themselves—but Bit Reactor isn't shutting the door entirely, just leaving it unlocked.

Bethesda confirms Elder Scrolls 6 roadmap intact after Xbox layoffs, despite crunch worries
The studio's rare statement offers a sliver of reassurance, but developers on the ground are bracing for the fallout of Microsoft's cuts.

Marvel's Wolverine Prequel Comic Reveals Team X Roster With Sabretooth, Mystique & Sunfire
Sabretooth and Mystique aren't just villains in Insomniac's Wolverine—they're former teammates, and this prequel comic is already blurring the lines between ally and enemy.

Framework Warns Memory Costs Have Doubled, Calling Spike 'Far Beyond Predictions'
The AI boom is now hammering the RAM market, and Framework's modular laptop promise just got a lot more expensive for everyone.

Japan Assembles Task Force to Tackle Pokémon & Yu-Gi-Oh TCG Scalping
Lawmakers are stepping in as resellers clean out store shelves and counterfeit cards flood the market, but actual regulation is still a long way off.

Empyrian's Minionmaxxing Project Freezes PoE 2 with Thousands of Skeletons
The real final boss isn't the Sekhemas — it's the instruction throughput of your own client, and Empyrian just spent mirrors of currency to prove it.

WoW GM Accused of Using 'Area Death (TEST)' to Cheat Mythic+ Dungeon
A Blizzard GM allegedly cast a spell literally named 'Area Death (TEST)' with a tooltip reading 'Cheater' to carry streamers through a +23 key, and the combat logs left zero room for plausible deniability.

Co-Op Management Game Debuts to 94% Rave Reviews, Now Available

Hasbro's Affordable 'Heroes of Hyrule' Figures: Link, Zelda, Ganondorf – Pre-Order Now
Three years after *Tears of the Kingdom*, Hasbro is finally giving us affordable, poseable 6-inch figures of Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf—and they look surprisingly good for the price.

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Reviews Are Live – Read Them Now
A new fighting game based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe has been released, and early reviews are available online. Players can now read critics' assessments of the game's mechanics and adaptation of the source material.