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King Ice teases bejeweled Pokémon bling
If you’re looking for a birthday gift for the Pokémon fan who has everything, jewelry brand King Ice may have the solution.
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Astro Bot is a supremely silly and incredibly smooth platformer
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Lego Horizon Adventures might be Sony’s most important game of the year
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The biggest threat to Marvel Rivals is all the other rival team shooters
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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess feels as luscious as it looks
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic filled with big decisions
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a tale of two very different assassins
- 06.10.2024
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is still happening and it's coming out 2026
PlayStation Plus June offerings include Monster Hunter Rise and three Lego games
Sony just announced a slew of new games coming to its various PlayStation Plus tiers.
Astro Bot is a supremely silly and incredibly smooth platformer
Astro Bot is as precise as it is ridiculous, and this is exactly what makes it so damn delightful.
Lego Horizon Adventures might be Sony’s most important game of the year
Lego Horizon Adventures might not have generated the Summer Game Fest headlines that the new Doom and Assassin’s Creed games did, but in many ways its legacy may be more interesting.
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Astro Bot is a supremely silly and incredibly smooth platformer
Astro Bot is as precise as it is ridiculous, and this is exactly what makes it so damn delightful.
The biggest threat to Marvel Rivals is all the other rival team shooters
Marvel Rivals pits its greatest heroes against each other and it’s a lot of fun. It’s also a familiar kind of fun if you’ve ever played Overwatch.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess feels as luscious as it looks
After playing for nearly an hour at Summer Game Fest, it’s clear that Kunitsu-Gami is much more than a beautiful screenshot.
Skydance's Behemoth brings giant climbable monster fights to VR
Behemoth is an action-adventure game that draws on the combat and physics of The Walking Dead VR games but with a bigger focus on fighting. Also: scaling a giant and killing it dead.
Crow Country is a darkly meditative callback to survival horror’s past
Crow Country, which was released on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox X/S on May 9, just about checks all the boxes for survival horror, but it takes a gentler approach to the genre, making it feel more like a test of mental endurance than a fight for your life.
INDIKA weaves a mature tale of absurdity, hypocrisy and sexual violence
INDIKA demonstrates how a video game can tell a strange and beautiful story that involves, but isn't overwhelmed by, themes of sexual abuse.
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King Ice teases bejeweled Pokémon bling
If you’re looking for a birthday gift for the Pokémon fan who has everything, jewelry brand King Ice may have the solution.
PlayStation Plus June offerings include Monster Hunter Rise and three Lego games
Sony just announced a slew of new games coming to its various PlayStation Plus tiers.
Astro Bot is a supremely silly and incredibly smooth platformer
Astro Bot is as precise as it is ridiculous, and this is exactly what makes it so damn delightful.
Lego Horizon Adventures might be Sony’s most important game of the year
Lego Horizon Adventures might not have generated the Summer Game Fest headlines that the new Doom and Assassin’s Creed games did, but in many ways its legacy may be more interesting.
Netflix drops a proper trailer for Arcane's second (and last) season
Arcane's second season on Netflix will be its last.
Modder adds the vicious Shield Saw to the original Doom
The Doom modding community has already brought a few brand-new weapons from an upcoming game to the classic original shooter.
The biggest threat to Marvel Rivals is all the other rival team shooters
Marvel Rivals pits its greatest heroes against each other and it’s a lot of fun. It’s also a familiar kind of fun if you’ve ever played Overwatch.
BeReal, the buzziest app of 2022, has been bought by a mobile game publisher
Game publisher Voodoo has bought the social platform BeReal for €500 million. Although BeReal has fallen off the radar since its much-hyped peak, Voodoo says the app has grown to 40 million active users.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess feels as luscious as it looks
After playing for nearly an hour at Summer Game Fest, it’s clear that Kunitsu-Gami is much more than a beautiful screenshot.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic filled with big decisions
For fans of Dragon Age, the latest installment is aimed at expanding the world you probably already love. And once again, there are big decisions to make in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Thrasher, the psychedelic game from the artist behind Thumper, arrives in July
Thrasher, which its developers describe as a "mind-melting arcade action odyssey," will be available for the Meta Quest and the Apple Vision Pro on July 25.
Just Dance VR is coming to Meta Quest headsets in October
Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancity will be available on October 15.
Resident Evil 7 and the Resident Evil 2 remake are coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac
On a day when there were a few other Apple-related announcements, Capcom snuck in one of its own. Two more Resident Evil games are coming to iOS, iPadOS and macOS: Resident Evil 7 biohazard, coming next month, and the Resident Evil 2 remake, which is under development.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a tale of two very different assassins
Instead of choosing a single character to play the entirety of Assassin's Creed Shadows, you can switch between the characters for assassination runs and exploration segments. They have two very different playstyles, too.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is still happening and it's coming out 2026
After all the delays, studio switches and confusion, Ubisoft says its troubled Sands of Time remake is coming in 2026.
Microsoft Xbox chief Phil Spencer: 'I think we should have a handheld'
After announcing several new Xbox Series X consoles including a $600 special edition model, Microsoft may be working on another one.
Microsoft’s Xbox refresh can't compete with its leaked roadmap
Microsoft showed off three new Xbox models yesterday, but anyone following the mass of leaks last year may have been surprised at how little changed for this mid-cycle refresh.
Empire of the Ants will let you explore a photorealistic bug’s life this November
Empire of the Ants, a real-time strategy game with dazzlingly photorealistic insects and other critters, arrives on November 7. Although the game isn’t exactly a remake, it comes from the same publisher as the 2000 RTS game of the same name.
Halfway to Dawn is a surprisingly tense, bite-sized survival horror game for Playdate
Halfway to Dawn, made by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf Studio) blends text-based narrative with top-down shooter to create an impressive horror experience for the Playdate.
We’re officially getting another Life is Strange game this fall
Life is Strange: Double Exposure sees the return of the series' original protagonist Max Caulfield. It will be released on October 29 for Xbox Series X/S, PC and PlayStation 5. A Nintendo Switch release will follow.
