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A Promising Start To A Much Bigger Adventure? I’ve never really got involved in the Sword Art Online universe before, largely due to time restraints. But when opportunity arose to…

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview,…

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As Season 3 of HBO Max and Adult Swim’s My Adventures with Superman proceeds, Clark Kent (Jack Quaid) is facing an existential crisis. He lost his powers but, thankfully, he…

The universe of Warhammer 40,000 is rich and full of countless little details, all of great importance to the passionate community that’s grown around the franchise. It’s these people, spurred…

Remember the original Xbox’s boot–up sequence? I absolutely do; I spent so much time with Microsoft’s original console that it’s burned into my brain. However, twenty-five years after first witnessing…

The number of active creators and streamers after launch is the clearest predictor of success for player-versus-player first-person shooter games, rather than the total hours watched, according to new data….

BG3 Camera Comparison – Vanilla vs Native Camera Tweaks vs True Third Person Camera – YouTube Watch On Sometimes I understand why modders flame out, burn their bridges, and give…

Final Fantasy 7 is the game that never seems to end. That’s not just because the original PS1 release is filled with things to do, it’s because of the…

The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for looking back at the week and honestly just thinking, yeesh,…

Maxim Boldson HARDWARE August 02 2026 Views: 24 Microsoft announced price increases for Xbox Series gaming consoles in the US, Europe, the UK, and Japan. The manufacturer previously announced plans…

Torpedo Comics, the Las Vegas, NV, store owned by System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan, has closed its doors, Neon reports. Dolmayan was a comics retailer before he was…

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate finally has new day-one games that have the attention of subscribers. Fittingly, at the top of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate “Most Popular” chart are three…

ZeniMax Online Studios, the developer behind hit MMO The Elder Scrolls Online, has reiterated that its online RPG is “here to stay” after doubts about the title’s future were raised…

I don’t need to tell you how badly the games industry is doing, right? Badly in the sense of a handful of people desperate to continue making millions are…

First reported by Automaton, Spanking Exorcist developer Actor made a free “apology game” available to download after missing a planned July 24 release date due to overzealous Steam content moderation….

“Don’t even talk to me before I’ve had my coffee that restores my lost memories!” This is a line I imagine that the general public would oft repeat in…

On June 25, 2026, Microsoft announced that the Xbox Series S and X consoles would increase in price starting on August 1 due to the ongoing memory and storage component…

The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts is set to close on August 4 following approval from all required regulatory bodies. In a SEC form filed yesterday, EA added that…

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Image Comics is back at it again — it being “publishing comics” — in August of 2026, with plenty of intriguing titles to choose from. That includes new stuff (and…

The Silent Hill series has one of those worlds that I just struggle to conceptually place in a contemporary setting. Sure, that’ll partially be down to when the original…

It feels kind of alarming that Crimson Desert is continuing to put out such regular patches months on from its release. There seems to be something new practically every…

One Of The Best Narrative Adventures In Years Being a superhero in a video game is hardly an original concept. I feel like I’ve been them all, from Spider-Man to…

Are you excited for Mortal Shell 2? The game, which is proving so popular ahead of release it recently sold out of its physical Revered Edition on PS5, has just…

First reported by GamesRadar, former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida is apparently just like us: He loves Bloodborne, and he doesn’t get why Sony and FromSoftware haven’t…

Sony reported flat sales in its Games & Network Services (G&NS) segment for its first quarter, but operating income rose 37%, primarily due to US tariff refunds. However, the firm…

Sci-fantasy shooter Warframe is the sexy cyborg fruit of 13 years of updates and expansions, encompassing scores upon scores of quests, areas, plotlines, systems and characters, together with a…

We’re obviously all eagerly awaiting the release of Gears of War: E-Day later in 2026, but before we get there, we thought we’d take a quick look back at the…