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Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man Cards Look Cool But Prices Have Gotten Out Of Control
3.3.2025
Magic: the Gathering recently revealed some of the cards coming to its comic-book-inspired Marvel’s Spider-Man set, including Venom, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and of course the webbed wall-crawler himself. The cards look cool and seem like they’d be fun to play. They’re also very expensive, continuing...
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Promises It's Not Going Full Live-Service Game After Latest Botched Event
3.3.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is very much not a live-service game. That’s one of the things that felt so refreshing about the sci-fi shooter when players flocked to it last fall. But it felt eerily like one late last month when an in-game reward was locked behind a busted community event....
Avowed's Best Sword Might Be The Best Weapon In The Whole Game
3.3.2025
Avowed’s fiery Last Light of Day isn’t just the best one-handed sword in the game, it’s arguably the best weapon you can find period, thanks to its high damage, fire accumulation, and fantastic enchantment that restores your health upon killing enemies. The fact that it can be obtained so early...
Monster Hunter Wilds Devs Are Fixing A Game-Breaking Bug While PC Players Edit File Typos Because Of Bad Performance
3.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds continued its massive launch into the weekend with the second-most players on Steam, helping propel the Valve-owned storefront to a new record-breaking 40 million concurrent users. The action-RPG’s performance on PC, however, has remained somewhere between less than stellar...
Two Point Museum Is Great, The Nemesis System (RIP Monolith) Was Incredible, And More Of The Week's Takes
1.3.2025
This week, we shared our thoughts on Two Point Museum, the latest in developer Two Point’s humorous series of management sims. We also offered up some opinions on what the big takeaways are from this week’s PokémonPresents showcase, and paid homage to the Nemesis system, the patented technology...
Legendary Studio Monolith Shuttered, Assassin's Creed Shadows Leaked, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
1.3.2025
This week, Warner Bros. shuttered Monolith, the legendary studio responsible for games ranging from 2000's The Operative: No One Lives Forever to 2017's Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The closure means that the studio’s promising Wonder Woman game, first revealed in 2021, has been cancelled as well....
Monster Hunter Wilds went... how big, how unoptimized?
28.2.2025
Also: a game attracting wishlists, lots of news, and our GDC Plus meetup
Nintendo Switch Online Losing Its First Retro Game Proves Why We Need Virtual Console
28.2.2025
Nintendo is doing something the company has never done before: Next month, it will remove a retro game from its the Nintendo Switch Online’s classic catalog.Read more
Elon Musk Installed A Gaming PC At His DOGE Office
28.2.2025
Around the same time Elon Musk privately admitted to cheating at games like Diablo 4 and Path of Exiles 2, he was apparently installing a gaming PC at his new office job running The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), because nothing says efficient and productive like using a power hog...
How To Choose Your Perfect Leader In Civilization 7
28.2.2025
In a game like Civilization VII, the leader you choose makes as much of a difference as how you play and the type of win condition you seek. If you want to rule the world, a military leader will provide the manpower and firepower. But an economic-focused leader makes the most sense if you’d rather...
Another Pokémon Game, Another Year Of Debating How Ugly These Games Have Gotten
28.2.2025
We’ve seen approximately five minutes of Pokémon Legends: Z-A in motion and fans are already asking a question that has plagued every Pokémon game since the series shifted to 3D graphics with X and Y: Is Pokémon Legends: Z-A ugly? The modern Pokémon games have been universally plagued by technical...
Some Good And Bad News About Assassin's Creed Shadows On PC
28.2.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next mainline game in Ubisoft’s long-running historical fiction franchise, is nearly here after a few delays, a leak, and a lot of online yelling. And if you were planning to play the game on Steam, well, I’ve got some good news and also, some bad news for Steam Deck...
Pokémon Fans Have A Conspiracy Theory That Cyndaquil Isn't In Legends: Z-A Because Of Smutty Folklore
28.2.2025
During yesterday’s annual Pokémon Day Presents showcase, Game Freak finally unveiled gameplay footage of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, revealing real-time combat, the return of some old friends, and teases about new mysteries in Lumiose City. It also revealed the three starters for the game will...
Forza Horizon 5 Pioneers Bizarre New Form Of Early Access Garbage On PS5
27.2.2025
Forza Horizon 5, which launched over four years ago on Xbox and PC, is making the leap to PlayStation 5 soon, but because it’s 2025, the game will lock “early access” to Xbox’s open-world driving sim behind a pricey special edition. It’s the next evolution in publishers holding games hostage...
11 Details You Might’ve Missed In The First Pokémon Legends: Z-A Trailers
27.2.2025
After a year of waiting, we finally got our first look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A during the annual Pokémon Presents showcase. The Switch game seems like a significant departure from the untamed open zones of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which is exciting because we don’t know what to expect. The stream...
New Terminator 2 Game Looks Awesome
27.2.2025
Terminator 2D: No Fate, a newly announced game based on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, looks like a rad retro-inspired side scroller. And you luckily won’t have to wait too long to play it.Read more
Pokémon Champions Was The Most Important Announcement From Pokémon Day
27.2.2025
We didn’t see Pokémon Champions in motion during the Pokémon Presents showcase today, but the new battle simulator might be the most important announcement made during the presentation. The game is being positioned as the future of Pokémon’s competitive play, as evidenced by the teaser trailer...
Sony Finally Slashes The Price Of PlayStation VR2 By $150 But It Might Be Too Late
27.2.2025
PlayStation VR2 launched at $550 two years ago this month. It was a great virtual reality headset but an intimidating price. Now Sony is dropping it to $300 starting in March amid reports that sales have completely stalled. Can the discount give PS VR2 a second wind or is it just one last attempt...
The Makers Of Pokémon Are About To Break A 15-Year Cycle
27.2.2025
Today’s Pokémon Presents was more notable for what it didn’t include than for what it did. While news of Legends: Z-A was very welcome, what was not mentioned—nor ever rumored to be mentioned—was Pokémon’s next mainline entry. And yet, based on the pattern of the last decade-and-a-half, this should...
Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Starters Revealed And Everyone's Favorite Fire Pig Is Back
27.2.2025
We finally have our first real look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A and which Pokémon will grace its world. This time around players are headed to the Kalos region and the starters they get to pick from are Chikorita, Tepig, and Totodile. While I’m a grass-type enthusiast at heart, there’s no question...