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An Xbox Handheld Is Reportedly Coming As Early As This Year
10.3.2025
Microsoft may be pivoting to a multiplatform approach for its biggest games, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning hardware just yet. The company reportedly has an Xbox handheld planned for 2025 as it works on its next-gen consoles aiming for release in 2027. It looks like the Switch 2 won’t be...
How To Snag Avowed's Best Weapons, 5 Great Mods To Make Monster Hunter Wilds Even Better, And More Hot Tips
9.3.2025
If, like us, you’re currently spending a lot of your spare time in the Living Lands of Avowed, you may want to check out our pointers on where to find some of the game’s best weapons, as well as some of its rarest upgrade materials. We’ll also point you to a handful of mods that can make your time...
Split Fiction Is The Good Time Everyone Needs Right Now
9.3.2025
EA and Hazelight’s latest co-op adventure, Split Fiction, is out now across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. As with previous Hazelight games, like It Takes Two, Split Fiction is a co-op only experience that features a dazzling amount of gameplay mechanics. One moment you’ll be flying dragons and later...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Amazing, The Switch Launch Was One For The Ages, And More Of The Week's Takes
8.3.2025
This week, we went hands-on with the imminentClair Obscur: Expedition 33 and think it could be a turn-based RPG classic. We also reminisced, eight years after the fact, about what made the launch of the Nintendo Switch so unforgettable, and gushed about why Monster Hunter Wilds’ Rove is easily...
24 Games We're Stoked For In March, Great Switch Games On Sale For Mario Day, And More Of The Week's Top News
8.3.2025
This week, we got some insight into what prompted Ubisoft to add a “canon mode”—which strips out all narrative choices in favor of adhering to one set story path—to the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Also, we looked at 24 games coming out in this fairly packed month that we can’t wait to...
Former Xbox Exec Says Microsoft Would Stop Making Hardware If It Could
7.3.2025
The Xbox that fans have known for decades is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation as Microsoft sets it sights on a multiplatform approach to gaming and its console sales continue to decline year after year. Veteran gaming executive Peter Moore, an Xbox VP in the early aughts...
Avowed's Best Mace Is Battletrance, The Speediest Of The Heavy Sticks
7.3.2025
Do you like bonk sticks? Do you like bonking enemies with those bonk sticks? Then maces might just be for you in Avowed. You’ll have quite a lot of them to choose from as you make your way through The Living Lands, but there’s one called Battletrance that’s a great choice, due to its excellent...
Split Fiction Director Reacts To 'Feminism Propaganda' Comment: 'What The F*** Is This?'
7.3.2025
Split Fiction is the latest action adventure from Hazelight Studios. Like the team’s past games, including It Takes Two, the latest game tells the story of two characters and revolves around two-player co-op. This time around, both of those characters just happen to be women. Director Josef Fares...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 Is Making A Big Change To How THPS4 Works
6.3.2025
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 was officially announced earlier this week and while it looks to be a great remake of some popular PS2-era skateboarding games, one big change involving timed challenges in THPS4 might be a dealbreaker for some players.Read more
Amazon Prime Giving Out 20 Free Games In March, Including Saints Row The Third
6.3.2025
Spring is nearly here! That means we are almost done with the brutal cold days of Winter. Ahh, it’s so nice to go outside again. But there’s no time for that! We have video games to play and Amazon Prime members have a bunch of free games to grab as part of their subscription plan, including...
The New Last Of Us PS5 Controller Looks Bland And Boring
6.3.2025
Sony has revealed a new PlayStation 5 DualSense controller inspired by the both Last of Us video games. And uh, well, hmmmm, it looks bad! Read more
Say Hello To My Current Favorite Video Game Character Of 2025
6.3.2025
Enormous, savage creatures roam dense forests and sprawling deserts in Monster Hunter Wilds. They’re impressive, deadly, and the game’s ostensible main attraction. But my favorite acquaintance in the Forbidden Lands is not some hulking, ferocious beast but a ‘lil guy named Rove. Other players...
Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse
6.3.2025
Discord has become a central artery for gaming. It’s the default place for companies to build communities around their games and for the people who play them to hang out with one another, coordinate gaming sessions, or just shoot the shit about whatever’s going on in life. It’s one of the least...
New Tariffs Could Lead To Fewer Physical Games And Higher Digital Prices
5.3.2025
President Donald Trump’s recently imposed tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada could potentially lead to higher game and console prices, fewer physical releases, and supply shortages, according to some industry analysts. Read more
Disappointed Fans Inspired Ubisoft To Create A Canon Mode For Assassin's Creed Shadows
5.3.2025
After a few delays and leaks, Ubisoft’s next main entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is nearly here. And, in a series first, it comes with a mode that removes many choices, instead adhering to one “canonical” narrative path. Now Ubisoft has explained why this option...
Neil Druckmann Says 'Don't Bet' On The Last Of Us Part III
5.3.2025
We’re about a month away from season two of The Last of Us premiering on Max, and Neil Druckmann, the director of the series of games the show is based on, is doing interviews to promote its return. Naturally, those conversations end up drifting over to the future of the video game series that...
EA's Overlooked Monster Hunter-Like And 7 Other Games On Sale For Just $12
5.3.2025
Calling all fans of Monster Hunter, creepy forests, awesome 2D action games, and/or intergalactic warfare, this month’s Humble Choice selection is for you. Read more
2025's Latest Retro Surprise Looks Like A Mashup Of Hades And Golden Axe
5.3.2025
Absolum is a just-revealed side-scrolling brawler from some of the best teams in the genre. It looks like the beautiful art of Hades mixed with the soul of Golden Axe. It’s the latest neat-looking retro surprise in a year shaping up to be full of them. Read more
Marvel Rivals Company Has A Second Hero Shooter Coming Out, Gives Fans Free Stuff After Last-Minute Console Delay
5.3.2025
FragPunk is a first-person hero shooter where you use deckbuilding card mechanics to augment your characters’ strengths and weaknesses. It’s the next free-to-play game from NetEase, which also produced Marvel Rivals, and it’s coming out this week, just not on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S where...
The Best Games Of 2025 So Far
5.3.2025
It’s only the beginning of March but 2025 already has some bangers worth spotlighting, including real standouts like Split Fiction and Avowed, so we decided to start compiling the best games of the year early and update this list as the days, weeks, and months go by. Here are some of the best games...