Gaming

Sept. 10, 2026, 3:40 a.m. CT A presentation exploring the connections between comic book history and Illinois will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Mount Carroll District…

The National from the UAE reported that Xbox will publish the upcoming action-spy game Physint by Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima. This came after PlayStation Studios withdrew from the project…

Physint has been hyped as Kojima Productions’ return to “tactical espionage action” or, in other words, Hideo Kojima’s return to making stealth action games in the style of Metal Gear…

Being a vampire is a pretty raw deal… or so the vamps inform us when they are not having freaky gothic sex, shapeshifting into wolves, enjoying the slimming effects…

TOKYO, Sept 10 — Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima said development of PHYSINT would continue under a new partnership with Xbox after PlayStation Studios unexpectedly cancelled the project in mid‑June….

The five-year wait for Valheim 1.0 doesn’t seem to have hurt the survival game behemoth’s popularity all that much. After leaving early access, the crafty viking sim is enjoying a…

No Man’s Sky is a decade old. Let that sink in. No, seriously, you’ll need plenty of water to survive the trips that the massive space game’s 10th anniversary update…

Blizzard Entertainment has secured a first union contract with parent company Microsoft, ratified by a workforce vote covering just under 1,900 staff. According to Kotaku, the agreement introduces protections covering…

It’s hard to believe that three years ago the compact comic didn’t exist; now it seems like every publisher is adopting the format.  DC Comics started the wave with their…

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I find it to be quite rare that when a game says it has a graphic novel art style that it actually has one. There’s often just something that…

Have you met Valheim 1.0’s mountainous menace, the Gammeltroll? If you’ve made your way to Valheim’s final biome, the Deep North, you’ve probably seen and fought it already: the Gammeltroll…

Truth be told, I’m still not sold on “bullet heaven” as a genre. Name notwithstanding, the genre is certainly here to stay, and there always seems to be funny…

It appears a playable build of Rare’s canceled SNES fantasy RPG, Project Dream, has suddenly surfaced online. Fans have been desperately wanting to see more of the game that eventually…

This week’s dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games. Kirby and the World Beyond! Metroid Ravenous! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! But the Japanese version of…

Achievement Name Achievement Description Points The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day Earn all other Achievements. 0 FNG Complete Boot Camp. 15 Emergence Begins Unlock during Act 1 of the Campaign….

Unionised Blizzard workers have voted to ratify a new contract with their employer that will “require” Blizzard to negotiate with workers over any usage of generative AI tools in their…

BOONE — A comic book series about a local man’s great-grandfather and his unexpected psychedelic story will have an art exhibit throughout the month and an art show at Parallel…

Lego Digital Play has acquired Offroad Games. Offroad Games, a UK mobile studio founded by a team of former Space Ape Games employees, announced the deal in a LinkedIn post,…

Terrible news, folks, it’s time for another episode of “Edwin secretly watches a lot of anime and has bad anime opinions”. Although I don’t know how anybody could reasonably…

The Inner Circuit is built for players who prefer to stay mobile and take fights at mid and close range, or as a viable weapon to pair with a sniper…

The Wardogs release date fast approaches, following its super popular beta last weekend before it enters early access. As our own FPS aficionado Morgan Park notes, it’s a “100-player milsim…

It’s hard to know where to start when talking about Stupid Never Dies. An action RPG built on style, excess and punk ideology. I mean, within the first minutes of…

This web-based recreation of the iconic Xbox 360 avatar creator features tens of thousands of clothing and prop items from the original marketplace, and it’s even more impressive when you…

Opinion seems to be favourable about Witcher-like dark fantasy role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker – barring a few technical problems, that is. Quibbles with performance issues, controller issues, and…

Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss, a classic vampire erotica series from Image Comics, will get the compendium treatment this winter. Collecting, per PR from Image, “the original 1988 series Black Kiss #1-12,…

Frontier Developments has reported record financial results following its June trade update. Adjusted operating profit increased by 62% to £21.4 million in FY26, the highest in the company’s history. The…

It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible house. Wait, let’s start that again. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself…

Microsoft’s Disc-to-Digital programme kicked off last week for Xbox Insiders, and fans have already been hard at work cataloguing which games work – and which don’t (yet). The best compendium…