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Jun 8, 2026
Dragon Age II still works best when I stop wishing it was Dragon Age Origins
BioWare’s rushed sequel is smaller, stranger, and rougher than it should be, but its messy decade in Kirkwall still has a pull that the series has rarely matched.
Jun 8, 2026
Baldur’s Gate still makes the road feel dangerous
BioWare’s first great RPG is slow, awkward, and often unforgiving, but its patient sense of danger and discovery still gives the Sword Coast a power that newer RPGs often smooth away.
Jun 5, 2026
Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay looks more brutal than anyone expected
Marvel’s Wolverine finally looks like the game fans hoped Insomniac was making. The new gameplay demo does not treat Logan like a cleaner, safer superhero. It lets him fight like a man with adamantium...
Jun 5, 2026
Ed Boon says more Mortal Kombat is coming, but Injustice 3 fans are still waiting
Ed Boon has once again given NetherRealm fans just enough to start arguing over what comes next. The Mortal Kombat co-creator says the studio is “definitely pursuing another Mortal Kombat game,” which...
Jun 5, 2026
Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco after 20 years
Tekken 8 is already trying to win back players after a rough stretch, and now the series has lost another major name behind the scenes. Kohei “Nakatsu” Ikeda, the game director for Tekken 7 and Tekken...
Jun 5, 2026
Tekken 8 is adding Yujiro Hanma from Baki, and it feels like the right kind of chaos
Tekken 8 has been surrounded by a lot of heavy conversation lately, but this is the kind of reveal that cuts through the noise fast. Yujiro Hanma from Baki is joining the roster as a Season 3 DLC figh...
Jun 5, 2026
Tekken 8 has been overtaken by Street Fighter 6, and the shift is hard to ignore
Tekken 8 did not lose players because the fighting suddenly stopped being exciting. At its best, it is still loud, fast, and brutal in a way few fighting games can match. The problem is that a great m...
Jun 5, 2026
Street Fighter 6 DLC Predictions: Returning Characters With the Best Shot
Street Fighter 6 is in a strong place right now, but Capcom still has plenty of fan-favorite fighters waiting outside the roster. Year 3 already has Sagat, C. Viper, Alex, and Ingrid, which gives the ...
Jun 5, 2026
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reveal is close as Korea tease confirms the leaks were right
Call of Duty fans spent months picking through leaks about a new Modern Warfare set around Korea. Now the official reveal has caught up. Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and th...
Jun 5, 2026
Call of Duty 2026 is bringing Modern Warfare back with Infinity Ward in charge
Call of Duty is going back to Modern Warfare in 2026, and Infinity Ward is not treating it like another routine annual entry. The studio has confirmed it is making what it calls “the definitive Modern...
Jun 5, 2026
Call of Duty is getting a movie, but players are going to be waiting a while
The Call of Duty movie now has a theatrical date, with Activision’s social channels and multiple entertainment reports pointing to a June 30, 2028 release. Variety also reports that Peter Berg is set ...
Jun 4, 2026
PlayerUnknown’s first major game since PUBG is going free, but the news is not good
The first big game from PlayerUnknown after PUBG should have felt like the start of a new chapter. Instead, Prologue: Go Wayback! is becoming free because its studio can no longer keep building it the...
Jun 4, 2026
Overwatch Stadium has had a messy first year, but it gave the game something it needed
Overwatch Stadium could have felt like another mode players tried for a week and forgot. Instead, it became one of the few recent Overwatch 2 additions that actually changed how people think about the...
Jun 4, 2026
PUBG creator Brendan Greene is downsizing his studio and stopping work on Prologue: Go Wayback!
Brendan Greene’s first major game after PUBG is ending on a difficult note. Prologue: Go Wayback! was supposed to be the first playable step toward a much larger survival vision, but PlayerUnknown Pro...
Jun 4, 2026
Overwatch is making its rarest anniversary reward easier to earn
Overwatch players wanted the 10th anniversary event to feel like a celebration, but one reward quickly turned into a grind that felt way too demanding. Blizzard is now changing the requirements for th...
Jun 4, 2026
Death Stranding 2 is better when it stops explaining itself
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is easier to enjoy than the first game, but not always easier to respect. It is smoother, stranger in bigger ways, and more willing to give me weapons, vehicles, ...
Jun 4, 2026
Dune: Awakening makes Arrakis feel worth surviving
Dune: Awakening understands the most important thing about Arrakis: the planet should not feel like a backdrop. It should feel like the main threat. Before the politics, before the spice, before...
Jun 4, 2026
Grounded 2 already feels like a bigger, nastier backyard adventure
Grounded 2 is still unfinished, but it already understands why the first game worked. It takes the simple childhood nightmare of being tiny in a world full of insects and makes it broader, faste...
Jun 4, 2026
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the Indy game I stopped expecting
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle works because it understands that Indy is not just a man with a whip and a hat. He is a teacher who keeps getting punched, a skeptic who cannot resist a myster...
Jun 4, 2026
inZOI is beautiful, empty, and not ready yet
inZOI makes a stunning first impression. Its people look sharp, its apartments can look like catalogue shoots, and its character creator is easily the strongest part of the game right now. I spe...