Sources: Polygon, Kotaku
The rewind and blessings features in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave have convinced me this is the way more video games should handle difficulty options. Especially tactics games, which need to allow wiggle room more often. It's not about whether you're good enough or preserving a…
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The bans came after modder Noffletoff was credibly accused of participating in graphic discussions of illegal content
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Control, Doom, Mafia, Just Cause, The Witcher, and much more are currently on sale for the next two weeks
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A new report shows how streamer-friendly global hits have propelled Japanese gaming
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The Ignisphere Project, led by a new action RPG named Dawngazer, has ambitions to be more than just a video game
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Marvel's Spider-Man is a Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond set that came out in September 2025. Notably, the set lacked preconstructed Commander decks, a popular product for fans of Magic's multiplayer variant. Magic's head designer Mark Rosewater explained that Marvel's…
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Are you playing Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave? Do you like Three Houses lore? What about computerized ghost elephants? Likable characters with homicidal tendencies? Fabio? If you answered yes to any of these questions, playing Dietrich's path next may be right for you.
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The eleventh installment in the Saw series has been revealed. Jigsaw's puppet is the main focus of the announcement video, laughing as it pedals its tricycle. Before the clip ends, the camera angle shifts, revealing a movie script. On the front page, it reads "Untitled Saw.…
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Superhero television used to be way weirder. Before Marvel and DC's blockbuster cinematic universes streamlined the cape-and-cowl blueprint, TV was a wild west for superpower narratives rooted in human drama rather than comic book lore. The 4400 treated sudden gifts as a…
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Near Field Communication, commonly known as NFC, has simplified card transactions, greatly speeding up the payment process. According to a recently filed patent, Sony wants to bring NFC to its DualSense controllers in order to enable faster PlayStation purchases.
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Taken together, the YouTube videos do connect, though not always in particularly useful ways — and they might help you deepen your understanding of the movie. A 30-second clip called 9780415263573, for instance, appears to be highway-camera footage of a car disappearing. That…
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By now, 26 years after the strip ended, Peanuts often feels like it comes pre-digested. Even during its original run, much of Peanuts got carefully filtered through layers of T-shirts, greeting cards, and inspirational wall posters. That reduced much of it to the benign…
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If 2026 has proven anything, it's that horror filmmaking is firing on all cylinders. Earlier in the year, Curry Barker dissected modern intimacy through the nightmare lens of Obsession, while Damian McCarthy built a masterclass in spatial dread and folklore with Hokum.…
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That's been the case for most of the 21st century, as the superhero genre exploded off the page and onto screens of all sizes. And that's especially true in animation, which has always felt like a natural fit for the hand-drawn origins of our favorite heroes and villains. After…
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A pack of wolves can end a Baldur’s Gate 1playthrough a mere five minutes after the tutorial ends. A squadmate you didn’t bother checking in on in Mass Effect 2 can die permanently during a mission you don’t get to redo. And a Sonic RPG on the Nintendo DS can end its story with…
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Who needs to know things like your own phone number or home address or how to solve a simple equation like 3x2?
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James Williams, the defendant and an alleged moderator of r/SwitchPirates, apparently never showed up to court
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