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Jun 16, 2026
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is finally ditching the paid shortcuts players hated
Dragon’s Dogma 2 was built to make travel awkward, danger inconvenient, and bad decisions memorable. Then players opened the store at launch and saw Capcom selling shortcuts beside a $70 single-player...
Jun 16, 2026
Ghost of Yōtei is winning the PS5 sales fight by a huge margin
PlayStation had two very different prestige games carrying its single-player image last year. One sent players across a snowy, blood-soaked revenge story with a sword at the center. The other asked th...
Jun 16, 2026
Dead by Daylight saved Art the Clown for one last anniversary scare
Dead by Daylight spent its 10th anniversary acting like a horror fan who knows exactly when to turn the lights off. The stream had already thrown plenty at players, from Jason Voorhees finally steppin...
Jun 16, 2026
007 First Light gets its first patch, but the bugs are not very Bond-worthy
007 First Light has its first post-launch update, and the patch notes are almost disappointingly normal for a James Bond game. IO Interactive has fixed crashes, NPC pathing issues, dialogue problems, ...
Jun 15, 2026
Fallout 76 fans should not expect another big trip beyond Appalachia soon
There was a fun promise behind Expeditions in Fallout 76. Appalachia was still the place players logged into every night, but the vertibird made the world feel wider. The Pitt brought back an old scar...
Jun 15, 2026
New co-op Witcher leak sounds like the series’ riskiest spin-off yet
A co-op Witcher game sounds wrong until you picture the contract board. One monster, a village full of bad information, a swamp nobody wants to enter, and a group of witchers arguing over who brought ...
Jun 15, 2026
Tekken 8 Season 3 backlash has Bandai Namco patching fast
Tekken 8 did not need another messy season launch. After months of players arguing that the game had become too aggressive, too swingy, and too exhausting to defend against, Season 3 was supposed to b...
Jun 15, 2026
Red Dead Redemption 2 actor says he is in GTA 6
Rockstar fans can turn the smallest loose thread into a full detective board, and this one gives them just enough to start pinning red strings again. A familiar face from Red Dead Redemption 2 has sai...
Jun 15, 2026
Sony reveals God of War Laufey, and Kratos is not the lead this time
Sony just gave God of War fans the kind of reveal that makes the whole series feel new again. God of War Laufey is a new PS5 game from Santa Monica Studio, but the surprise is not just that the franch...
Jun 15, 2026
The Witcher 3 is dragging Geralt back onto the Path
Geralt got one of the rare goodbyes video games almost never allow. Blood and Wine let him slow down, drink in the sun, and leave players with the feeling that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had closed the ...
Jun 12, 2026
Valor Mortis turns the Napoleonic Wars into a first-person soulslike
Most soulslikes send players into ruined kingdoms, cursed castles, or dying fantasy worlds. Valor Mortis is taking a stranger route: it drops the genre into an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars...
Jun 12, 2026
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse gives Konami another 2D comeback
Konami has spent years rebuilding trust with players who wondered if some of its classic franchises would ever feel alive again. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is the kind of reveal that makes that come...
Jun 12, 2026
Persona 6 was the surprise JRPG reveal Xbox needed
Xbox needed one reveal that made JRPG fans sit up immediately, and Persona 6 did exactly that. Atlus finally confirmed the next mainline entry during the Xbox Games Showcase, turning years of rumors, ...
Jun 12, 2026
State of Decay 3 finally showed gameplay, and it looks like the wait may have mattered
For years, State of Decay 3 was the Xbox zombie game fans kept hoping would reappear with something real. That finally happened at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, and the difference is hard to miss. The...
Jun 12, 2026
DOOM: The Dark Ages is dragging Doom Slayer into frozen hell with Revelations
Doom Slayer has already crushed demons with a shield, ridden a dragon, and turned medieval war into a first-person bloodbath. Now DOOM: The Dark Ages is taking him somewhere colder, stranger, and more...
Jun 11, 2026
Here's every new announcement we got at the Xbox Showcase 2026
Xbox had something to prove this year, and the 2026 showcase knew it. Instead of leaning on one huge reveal and filling the rest with reminders, the show moved like a proper statement of intent: old f...
Jun 11, 2026
Studio Wildcard is making ARK modding much easier with ARK Maker
Most ARK players have had at least one ridiculous idea they were never going to build. A floating dinosaur arena. A custom island full of traps. A survival map made entirely for their friends to suffe...
Jun 11, 2026
ARK had a busy IGN Live showing, and the biggest reveal was not ARK 2
ARK fans went into IGN Live 2026 hoping for the kind of reveal that would finally make the franchise’s future feel less scattered. What they got was not a huge ARK 2 blowout, but it may still be one o...
Jun 10, 2026
Minecraft looks like it is finally getting a Nintendo Switch 2 version
There are games you buy once, play for a while, and leave behind. Then there is Minecraft, which somehow keeps following players from one console generation to the next, carrying old worlds, old purch...
Jun 10, 2026
Minecraft Dungeons II finally has a date, and it knows exactly what kind of game it wants to be
Some games need a huge reinvention to justify coming back. Minecraft Dungeons II probably does not. The first game worked because it understood the assignment: take the cozy block world everyone under...