
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other’s idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to […]

Going into my demo of Marvel’s Wolverine, I mainly wanted to try out the game’s very bloody combat. And it is delightfully bloody. But after two-ish hours of slashing and stabbing (and parrying!) enemies with Wolverine’s claws, I left surprised – despite no previous attachment to the character, I was deeply endeared to Logan himself. […]

Haven’t we seen your face before? On the final frontier, your identical face twin is never far away…

Nintendo’s first Fire Emblem game for the Switch 2 is structured in an ambitious way. Unlike the well-loved Three Houses, a strategy game that tasked you with pledging allegiance to a specific faction and seeing their story all the way to the end, the new Fortune’s Weave lets you swap between four heroes and their […]

How bad timing, a studio in financial turmoil, and a movie that looked nothing like the cartoon conspired to defeat the most powerful man in the universe.

Kinetic Publishing, a new indie publisher from the development team behind the co-op horror game Phasmophobia, just hosted its first games showcase, and it includes five ambitious new titles set to release in 2027 and 2028. Perhaps the most significant announcement from Kinetic’s show is that it’s publishing the next game from Telling Lies and […]

Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting “a significant amount” of its work on first-party AAA games, “specifically around MMOs,” Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne […]

After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D’Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plug-ins like Autotune introducing […]

After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare “Stimulator” game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that “I was lead writer on this one! […]

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can’t say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that’s almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp. In May, a Brazilian regulator’s leaked images revealed that Xbox […]