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Game Changers Americas LCQ Field Set for October 14
MIBR, FlyQuest RED, and Akave Esports will compete in São Paulo on October 14 and 15 for the final Americas spot at Game Changers Championship 2026.
PlayStation Users Are Seeing New PS Store Wallet Credit Offers
Selected PlayStation Store purchases are now showing Wallet Credit rewards for some users, with at least one buyer receiving $10 immediately after checkout. Sony has not explained who qualifies or whether the promotion will expand.
Fortnite Could Be Getting a Chucky Collaboration for Fortnitemares 2026
Leakers ShiinaBR and FNBRIntel have connected the Child's Play character to this year's Halloween event. What form the reported crossover could take remains unknown.
Ninja Theory Faces Proposed Closure After Two Ownership Deals Fall Through
Microsoft will begin consultation with Ninja Theory employees after two planned ownership transfers collapsed. The studio's next game, Senua, remains announced for 2027 while its future is unresolved.
Xbox Cuts 268 More Jobs as Major Gaming Restructure Continues
The latest layoffs affect first-party teams and management while Microsoft continues shifting studio ownership and oversight across Xbox. Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure after two attempted transfers failed.
9 survival games where every mistake has a price
The best survival games make every mistake matter, from Subnautica's dangerous depths to Minecraft's first night and Valheim's hostile biomes.
The 11 best life sims for building another life
From carefully designed dream homes to islands full of unhinged neighbors, these games make ordinary routines surprisingly difficult to leave behind.
The 8 best farming games for starting over
These games make clearing an abandoned field, planting the first seeds and slowly building a working farm feel like progress rather than routine.
The 10 best city builders for losing entire weekends
From industrial empires and Roman provinces to rain-soaked settlements that were never meant to last, these games make every road, warehouse and housing shortage feel important.
Best Sega Games
As Sega returns to Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio, these games show which parts of its past deserve more than nostalgia.
The 9 best deckbuilding games for finding the perfect combo
These games make the deck itself your character build, then ask you to improve it without adding one card too many.
Best Atlus Games
Persona may define Atlus now, but the company's sharpest ideas extend across a much stranger catalogue.
9 turn-based strategy games that make every move count
These games give you all the time in the world to make a decision, and plenty of ways to regret it.
The 9 Best Fighting Games Worth Learning in 2026
These are the current fighters whose mechanics and competitive possibilities continue to justify the effort of learning them.
The 10 Best Racing Games to Play in 2026
These ten games give players a reason to learn their roads instead of simply collecting faster cars.
The 7 best extraction shooters to play right now
These are the games that make a backpack full of scrap feel valuable enough to risk everything getting it home.
The 10 Best Sports Games in 2026
From reading a defense before the snap to carving one cleaner line down a mountain, these games make improvement visible.
The 12 Best Konami Games, From Frogger to Metal Gear Solid
Konami's strongest releases can be understood in minutes, then keep finding new ways to punish a careless decision.
The 9 Best Rockstar Games
Rockstar's most convincing places are defined by how players learn their rules, not by the distance between mission markers.
Best 2K games
From doomed summer camps to collapsing underwater cities, 2K's best games are built around systems that make every decision feel costly.
The Sims 4 Is Still a Great Dollhouse With Too Many Locked Doors
More than a decade of updates has turned Maxis' life simulator into a huge creative sandbox, but the free base game still has a habit of showing you something interesting before pointing toward a paid pack.
Best Steam Deck games
These games suit the Steam Deck's smaller screen, instant suspend feature, and ability to turn spare minutes into worthwhile play sessions.
Best CD Projekt games
CD Projekt's finest games turn uncertain information into decisions that remain uncomfortable long after the dialogue wheel disappears.
11 Best EA Sports games
The greatest EA Sports releases survived outdated rosters because playing them was more memorable than the licenses printed on the box.
Best mobile games
The strongest phone games make touch controls, short interruptions, and a device carried everywhere part of the experience.
Best Devolver Digital games
The publisher's finest releases begin with an idea that sounds simple, then keep finding sharper and stranger ways to test it.
Best looter shooters
The best looter shooters make a new weapon change the way you fight, not merely replace one damage number with another.
Best third-person shooters
These shooters use the visible body, surrounding space, and distance from danger to make positioning as important as aim.
Best boomer shooters
These retro-inspired FPS games use speed, secrets, and dangerous level layouts for more than a trip back to the 1990s.
Best immersive sims
The strongest immersive sims give every tool consistent rules, then trust the player to discover solutions the designers never explicitly requested.
Spirit and G2 turned Cologne into a classic, and Zero1Gaming was there to see it
Zero1Gaming attended the IEM Cologne 2026 Major playoffs at the LANXESS Arena as an official partner of Astralis, but by the end of Friday’s quarter-final, the story in the building belonged to Team S...
Resident Evil 2 makes Raccoon City terrifying again
Resident Evil 2 returns with darker rooms, stronger zombies, Mr. X pressure, and one of Capcom’s best survival-horror remakes.
Alien: Isolation still makes every vent feel dangerous
Alien: Isolation still makes Sevastopol feel deadly, with a terrifying Xenomorph, tense stealth, and survival-horror pressure.
Silent Hill 2 returns to the fog without losing its grief
Silent Hill 2 returns with stronger combat, heavier atmosphere, and a faithful remake that preserves the grief at its core.
GTA 6's $80 price could add $450M in first-year revenue, report says
A new report suggests GTA 6's rumored $80 price tag could generate an extra $450 million in first-year revenue for Rockstar Games. Get the details here!
PlayStation Plus Extra closes June with three very different PS5 games
PlayStation Plus Extra has added its final June games in the US, UK and Japan, with Farming Simulator 25, Blades of Fire and Black Desert now available through the Game Catalog. Sony first announced t...
State of Decay 3 studio reportedly at risk as Xbox cuts loom
Undead Labs may be caught in the next wave of Xbox cuts just weeks after Microsoft finally gave State of Decay 3 a proper gameplay showing. The studio behind the zombie survival series is reportedly o...
Diablo 4 Season 14 gives Spiritborn's weakest Mythic a reason to exist
Discover how Diablo 4 Season 14 revitalizes the Spiritborn's weakest Mythic item, making it a viable and powerful choice for your build. Get ready for new strategies!
IEM Cologne Major playoffs feature G2, Spirit, Falcons and Vitality
IEM Cologne Major playoffs open with G2 vs Spirit and Falcons vs Vitality as four major contenders fight for semi-final spots.
Survival Horror vs Action Horror
These are the horror games that do more than scare you for a few minutes. They make you manage space, resources, nerves, and the awful feeling that the next room might ruin your night.
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.
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.
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 ...
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, gadget...
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 the v...
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, faster, and...
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 mystery, and...
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 spent mor...
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is better when it stops pretending to be serious
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii sounds like a joke the series would usually save for a side quest. Goro Majima wakes up without his memory, becomes a pirate, gathers a crew, sails around Hawaii...
Little Nightmares III is eerie, familiar, and too afraid to change
Little Nightmares III still knows how to make a room feel wrong. A giant toy, a warped factory, a dead city, a corridor that seems too quiet, a child-sized path through a place built for something muc...