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The Simpsons take over Fortnite's Reload mode this Thursday with a 50-player Springfield map, nine iconic POIs, a brand-new Tactical Assault Rifle, and a mini-season that might be the most detailed crossover Epic's ever built — servers come back around 6 AM ET if all goes smooth.

The real Star Wars fantasy isn't the Force — it's scraping by as a scavenger, running a cantina, or navigating syndicate politics just to keep your ship in the air.

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, journalist, and game developer, bringing both editorial experience and development perspective to her coverage. Sign in to your DualShockers account Nintendo is often accused of relying on familiar properties and franchises, cycling through the likes of Mario , Zelda and Pokémon on what feels like

"Nintendo was aware of our ambition and it did take a lot of collaborative effort to make it happen" — CD Projekt Red s Artur Kepen on Cyberpunk 2077 for Switch 2, PS5 Pro support, Mac, cross save, and more Last year, CD Projekt Red released Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition as a launch title for Nin

Despite recent reports to the contrary, The Elder Scrolls 6 developer Bethesda said that work on the upcoming role-playing game won t be impacted members at the studio recently claimed the layoffs will have a "substantial and cascading effect" on the game s development . The main Bethesda Game Studi

Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show has announced that id Software co-founder John Romero will headline the business area conference of this year s event in Bangkok, with a keynote entitled "Why We Still Make Games" about "a lifetime of building games, overcoming setbacks and navigating decades of in

While Capcom used to have a tradition of releasing spin-offs in its Resident Evil franchise between larger releases of mainline games, the company has seemingly left this strategy behind. Now, it instead opts for remakes of older mainline entries to fill in the gaps. In an interview with Game Inform

This weekend, Final Fantasy fans from around the world converged at an exhibition centre in Berlin, celebrating the massive Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest. It was an interesting celebration; not only was Final Fantasy 14 s iconic lead, Naoki Yoshi-P Yoshida, in attendance, but the show also brought Final

Fire Emblem: Fortune s Weave Characters - List of all of the playable characters, villains, and more so far Intelligent Systems has recently started gradually publishing details about key characters from Fire Emblem: Fortune s Weave on the Japanese official social media account for the Fire Emblem s

Elizbar Ramazashvili ival, Square Enix showed the extended trailer at the Berlin Fan Festival and revealed lots of new information about the upcoming expansion. Note that many of the reveals hold unmarked spoilers, so proceed carefully if you haven’t finished the story of Endwalker and Dawntrail . T

Final Fantasy XIV officially launches on Switch 2 next week Mustafa Mahmoud 9 mins ago Console , Featured Tech News , Software & Gaming , Tech News Ever since the launch of the Switch 2 last year, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida has expressed desires to bring the ever-popular MMO Final Fantasy

, regularly posting his fiction to his "lordtakuro" Twitter page . Michael has written a full novel, currently in the post-writing stage, and is in the process of writing his second. Sign in to your GameRant account The Pokemon Company is testing some major new methods to combat Pokemon TCG scalpers

One of this year s most surprising Nintendo Switch 2 port announcements was Final Fantasy 14 s back in April , and against all expectations, it was set to arrive in August. Now we know it s right around the corner, and the Evercold expansion has received a big teaser trailer, too. During the Fan Fes

Image via Epic Games Category: General Why do battle passes make so much money? Progression and rewards are the core of a battle pass. Sourav Banik | Published FR: Jul 27, 2026 03:05 am Battle passes in video games are a standard practice nowadays. Studios and publishers combine monetization with pr

Image via Game Freak Category: General When is Beast of Reincarnation launching? Release date, platforms, gameplay, system requirements Game Freak s Beast of Reincarnation release date is almost upon us. Shreyansh Katsura | Published FR: Jul 27, 2026 02:52 am Beast of Reincarnation is a “one-person,

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift Codes and How To Redeem Them Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is now available worldwide. If you ve just bought it or are planning to, Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift features gift codes or passwords you can input to earn special rewards. Some of these require being c

Image courtesy of Nintendo and Hokkaido Airports Hokkaido Airports revealed that it is working with Nintendo to hold an Animal Crossing -themed event at New Chitose Airport. The pop-up event will launch in late July 2026 and run throughout most of August 2026. It will also include sales of merchandi

Image via Nintendo Nintendo and Monolith Soft confirmed MOMO Mizrahi from the Xenosaga trilogy will be a Blade in theupcoming Switch 2 Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in a new trailer going over additions. She’ll appear alongside the Blade Merc Assault battle mode, Pyra and Mythra costumes, and a

Meta MMORPG News It’s been a big week for both major MMO games and lil indies sneaking in around the corners too. Among the bigs, we got all the new details from Final Fantasy XIV’s Fan Festival in Berlin, plus our own Carlo attended Black Desert’s Heidel Ball in California, and Aion 2’s began selli

Category: Final Fantasy Nintendo Everything we know about Final Fantasy XIV Switch 2 edition: Trial, crossplay, subscription FFXIV on Switch 2 this August. | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 04:21 pm Final Fantasy XIV Online is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in August 2026. Square Enix announced this during

In 1993, Cyan Worlds’ Myst changed PC gaming forever. While few could get beyond the first few puzzles, the computer rendered landscape and vibey music illustrated what could be squished into nascent CD-ROMs. It was the best-selling computer game until The Sims, and still commands space to this day.

Ever since the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo’s home consoles have seemed a lap or two behind the competition. The lesser processing power and graphics have generated plenty of jabs and jokes towards the company, but it never stopped Nintendo from laughing all the way to the bank. In a new interview, Shiger

Pokémon Pokémon TCG The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a “facial recognition system” that will check to see if someone has entered a store “more than once in one day,” and refuse re-entry to those who attempt to purchase fro

26, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a lifelong gamer whose first memories with video games come from being a four-year-

As the first mainline title in the franchise in over 20 years and considering the story, it’s a little surprising that Onimusha: Way of the Sword has so little tying it to the previous games. Sure, there are the Genma that you’ll have to slay, the Oni Gauntlet, and Issen, but in terms of setting, ch

A fan-made remake of Portal, titled Alive & Kicking, has been in development since 2011 from developers Rhubarb & Rhubarb. Retrofitting the original classic with the engine of its sequel, fans began worrying that the game was being abandoned after such a long gestation in the lab. Responding to post

Article / Highlight &middot News RPGs Coming This Week, July 26–August 1, 2026 – Everyone is Here! by,, and on July 26, 2026 Sometimes you wonder how so many releases happen on the same day. In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, our special day is Thursday, July 30th, wherein most of our 11 (or

Avengers: Doomsday Black Panther Ghost Rider Marvel Nova San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Spider-Man: Brand New Day Marvel It was a busy time at Marvel’s much-anticipated Hall H panel during San Diego Comic Con 2026. The company revealed not just more footage of Avengers: Doomsday, but also new movies, rele

Apple TV In 1981, author William Gibson introduced OMNI magazine readers to ‘the Sprawl.’ A catastrophically dense, cable ridden dystopia that served as the foundations for the cyberpunk genre. Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer , took readers not just through outer space but cyberspace, a new univer

Avengers: Doomsday Marvel San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Marvel Studios The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday got fans excited for the next chapter in the MCU but was also quickly picked apart for feeling like an expensive game of “ let’s remember some people .” One of the major critiques was that it f

Image via EA Category: EA Sports FC EA Sports FC 27 release date countdown, platforms, and system requirements All details sorted here. Sourav Banik | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 07:45 am EA Sports FC 27 is set for a global launch in September 2026, with early access expected for select editions ahea

Halo: Combat Evolved Sign in to your Polygon.com account Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here . I remember the first time I played Halo: Combat Evolved at a friend's place. This friend was doing quite

Tetracast 452: A human, a cyborg, a clone, and God join the party Welcome to the latest edition of the Tetracast, RPG Site's regular, seemingly weekly podcast! In this episode, we take a look at Splatoon Raiders & Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls , discuss the update to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 , Star Oce

Thick As Thieves Thief and System Shock creator Warren Spector reemerged from the shadows to launch Thick As Thieves , a co-op game with clear ties to his previous immersive sims. Even with the low entry price, the game’s leaner approach to the genre failed to amass the guild Spector and OtherSide E

Vampire Squidvivors Nintendo released Splatoon Raiders earlier this week . If I’m chum for any Nintendo series, it’s probably this one. The methodical frenzy of the previous games made it the go-to for my friend circle over lockdown. All the more so that Salmon Run, the PvE mode introduced in Splato

Meccha Chameleon Steam © lemorion_1224 / Northernlion Meccha Chameleon , the biggest Steam indie hit of 2026 by quite a large margin , has reportedly already sold over 15 million copies. Unfortunately, some of those 15 million players may want to run a virus scan at some point in the immediate futur

Halo: Campaign Evolved is playable now for Premium Edition buyers on Xbox Series X/S and PC, with the Standard Edition arriving later on July 28 — and Game Pass Ultimate players can jump in early with a $20 upgrade.

A Japanese love hotel is still running rare commercial Famicombox consoles in nearly every room, proving that Nintendo’s old paid-play ecosystem survives in the most unexpected places.

Beyond the Lifestream turns FF14’s first FF7 crossover into a full raid arc—with FF7’s story team, Nomura on art direction, and a new difficulty between normal and savage.

Five big names are hitting Switch 2 this August, but this month is really about bringing established console and PC blockbusters into portable form.

Palworld's Steam reviews are funny because they nail the game's cutest, weirdest contradiction: adorable monster companions who are also basically unpaid labor in a tiny industrial nightmare.

Nintendo Switch 2’s extra power is turning first-party games into stable, colorful chaos, with Splatoon Raiders and Donkey Kong Bananza showing how Nintendo can now fill the screen with enemies, effects, and speed without losing the fun.

Bastion is Square Enix’s boldest Final Fantasy 14 Evercold job yet: a shield-wielding tank built around Evolved Combat, northern martial lore, and a much more aggressive front-line identity.

A Switch 2 X-Men Legends-style co-op RPG would give Marvel the Nintendo-first event game it has been missing, and it would finally give the X-Men the focused roster their powers deserve.

Celeste is leaving Xbox Game Pass on July 31, 2026, so if you’ve been meaning to try the precision-platforming hit, this is your last chance to play it through the subscription.

Mystery-heavy Metroidvanias are worth playing when the unknown changes how you move, fight, and explore — turning confusion into the point of discovery.

007 First Light’s Behind Enemy Lines update is already tackling 200+ issues and kicking off the game’s free DLC roadmap, giving players more reasons to stay in the Bond universe.

Free games are easy to miss, but the real trick is knowing which ones you actually get to keep before the clocks run out.

Splatoon is proof that Nintendo still has a gift for making the unexpected feel essential—and the company needs many more of those surprises.