Rafał Wierzbicki
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Rafał Wierzbicki is a content writer and esports enthusiast focused on competitive gaming, online gambling, and emerging technologies. With a journalism background and a long-standing passion for Counter-Strike, he delivers clear, well-researched content on esports, betting, and industry trends.
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Everything We Know About Crazy Taxi: World Tour
Sega is expanding its arcade formula with five cities, a story campaign and online multiplayer, but Arcade Mode may be the feature that keeps the revival recognizably Crazy Taxi.
Ōkami at 20: Its Beauty Has Aged Better Than Its Pacing
Clover Studio's ink-wash adventure remains visually and mechanically distinctive two decades later, even as its long explanations, false endings, and repeated structure reveal the habits of another era.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 Starts This Week: The Biggest Games and Events to Watch
Xbox, Persona 4 Revival and a playable Lollipop Chainsaw debut lead a five-day show celebrating TGS's 30th anniversary.
Marvel's Wolverine Leans Too Heavily on Its Claws
Logan's aggressive fighting style and expressive cast carry Insomniac's PS5 adventure, but uneven progression and storytelling leave too much work to the next bloodbath.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation: Everything We Know So Far
A flyable Highwind and a more flexible party promise freedom across the planet, while Square Enix commits to one ending for Cloud's story.
10 Best Metroid Games to Play While You Wait for Metroid Ravenous
Samus' greatest adventures turn every new ability into a reason to reconsider the hostile world around her.
The 10 Best Games Releasing in the Second Half of September 2026
Wolverine lands first, but September's strongest remaining releases belong to a haunted island, a collapsing Manhattan and a war spread across four histories.
Sega Says Some of Its Biggest Fans Have Never Played Its Games
This is not evidence that Sega's games matter less. It shows that their characters and stories have become valuable enough to escape them.
Star Wars Zero Company makes every turn feel personal
Bit Reactor combines excellent tactical combat with a crew worth protecting, although technical problems and a streamlined strategy layer prevent its debut from reaching full strength.
Escape is not enough in Halloween: The Game
Haddonfield's residents turn a familiar 1v4 chase into a rescue operation, but the game teaches the killer far better than the people trying to stop him.
The 12 Best PlayStation Exclusives
The best PlayStation exclusives can make a clean racing line as exciting as a fight with a god.
The 9 Best Puzzle Games
Some fit on a single screen, while others hide their puzzles across an entire hotel or solar system.
The 10 Biggest Kick Streamers in 2026
Kick built its name around a handful of expensive English-speaking signings, but its largest communities now stretch from Colombia and Argentina to Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The 13 Best Bethesda Games
From a coffee mug that bites back to a dragon landing outside Whiterun, Bethesda's best games rarely let a plan survive unchanged.
LEGO Star Wars II Built the Formula That Defined LEGO Games
Twenty years later, Traveller's Tales' brick-built original trilogy remains a sharp lesson in how simple mechanics, replayable levels and wordless comedy can carry a licensed game.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword earns its comeback through precision
Capcom's long-awaited revival pairs superbly timed swordplay with a charismatic Miyamoto Musashi, although repetitive work in Kyoto keeps dulling the blade between its best fights.
Splitgate Developer Says It's Probably Done Making Arena Shooters
In 2021, 1047 Games had more players than its servers could handle. Five years later, it has two shooters that cannot earn enough to keep those servers running.
The 7 Best Video Game Cities of All Time
The greatest virtual cities do more than surround missions. They shape how a game moves, what its world believes and which streets players remember years later.
The 13 Best Bandai Namco Games
Bandai Namco's best games can make one maze last for decades or turn a wrong road into an entire evening.
The 13 Best Ubisoft Games
Ubisoft's best games make a light meter or a ship's broadside feel more important than the size of the map.
The Blood of Dawnwalker makes every hour matter
Rebel Wolves gives its vampire RPG a strong identity through meaningful choices and a world worth saving, even when repetitive combat and technical roughness weaken the experience.
The 11 Best Game Releases Coming in September 2026
From vampire RPGs and samurai horror to Wolverine, Silent Hill and football, September gives almost every kind of player something substantial to look forward to.
Top 5 Antagonists in Grand Theft Auto
GTA's most memorable enemies do more than give the protagonist someone to kill. They turn betrayal, corruption and power into something personal.
GTA 6 does not need microtransactions for Shark Cards to survive
Kinda Funny's Andy Cortez and Greg Miller returned from a visit to Rockstar North with two unusually direct answers. They said co-studio head Rob Nelson confirmed that players would not be able to spe...
The 8 Biggest Reveals From GTA VI's Extended Look
Rockstar's longest look at Grand Theft Auto VI yet finally showed how Jason and Lucia play, how police hunt them, and just how much more simulation is hiding beneath the chaos.
The Witcher 3 and SEGA split the Gamescom Awards 2026
CD Projekt Red and SEGA collected three trophies each, Onimusha converted both of its nominations into wins, and Games Done Quick received the Heart of Gaming Award.
Gamescom Awesome Indies 2026 gave strange games room to explain themselves
From political arguments and supernatural hotel renovations to a car controlled by two people making engine noises, Gamescom's indie showcase made specific ideas more important than familiar names.
This Time, It Isn't a Leak – GTA VI's 26-Minute Extended Look Is Here
A 26-minute GTA VI presentation has just landed on Netflix. This time, it isn't a leak. The Extended Look delivers the first substantial gameplay footage, showing the two protagonists working together, combat, police chases, and dozens of activities spread across Vice City and the wider state of Leonida.
Everything Announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026
No single reveal was built to dominate the broadcast – Wolcen II, Greak 2, Kingdom 3 and Escape from Playtime shared the spotlight with major updates, releases arriving within days, and demos playable now.
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 made reinvention the main event
Geralt returned twice, Rainbow Six became turn-based, and familiar names earned their spotlight by refusing to stand still.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Knew Batman Was Scarier Than His Villains
Seventeen years after release, Rocksteady's first Arkham game remains remarkably focused, using FreeFlow combat, predator stealth, and one tightly connected asylum to make Batman powerful without making him invulnerable.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Finally Makes the Squad Matter
Cold Iron Studios makes its Xenomorph shooter more demanding and more flexible, with four-player squads and stronger class interplay giving the sequel a clearer purpose than simply adding more aliens.
The 12 Best MMOs games
In the strongest MMOs, a weekly raid night can matter as much as the next expansion.
Actions & Stuff makes Minecraft Bedrock feel properly animated
Oreville Studios refreshes Minecraft Bedrock with expressive movement, richer effects, and enough customization to keep its visual overhaul close to vanilla.
Mortal Shell II breaks the Soulslike stamina habit
Cold Symmetry removes the stamina bar, expands Shells into true combat archetypes, and builds a dense world around aggression rather than imitation.
9 games with stories that will have you in tears
The games below would lose something essential if their stories were watched instead of played.
The 12 Best Visual Novels
These visual novels reward attention long before they reveal which details mattered.
The 10 most iconic PC Games that changed the industry
These games use the PC as more than a place to run at a higher frame rate.
How to Fish turns a simple fishing loop into hilarious co-op chaos
Dazed Games replaces peaceful angling with flopping fish, firearms, boss fights, and just enough progression to keep the joke moving.
The 10 Most Iconic Gamescom Reveals of All Time
From Dota 2's million-dollar public debut to a horror demo concealing Silent Hills, Gamescom's greatest reveals found ways to outlive the event itself.
The Latest GTA 6 Leak Makes Build Access Look Far More Likely
CYBERLEEK's newest footage does more than show another piece of GTA 6, because someone appears to be controlling the game specifically for the people watching the leaks.
The 11 Best Nintendo Switch Games
The strongest Switch games make handheld play part of their appeal rather than a technical compromise.
Gamescom 2026 Schedule: Every Showcase, Date, Time and What to Expect
Opening Night Live starts a week that also includes two Xbox broadcasts, the Future Games Show, daily CD Projekt Red streams, and a dedicated indie showcase.
God of War Still Makes Kratos Feel Dangerous Without the Rage
Eight years later, God of War remains an exceptional reinvention because its quieter Kratos, heavier combat, and relationship with Atreus changed the series without erasing what made it brutal.
The Sinking City 2 Finds Its Horror by Leaving Detection Behind
Frogwares trades much of the first game's detective work for tighter survival horror, and the change produces a stronger game even when its borrowed systems and abrupt final stretch keep it from becoming an essential one.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Still Demands One More Run
The first sound is a skateboard hitting the ground. A moment later, "Guerrilla Radio" kicks in and the timer shows 2:00. Before the song can properly get going, I abandon my plan to collect S-K-A-T-E ...
The 8 Best Open-World Games
The best open-world games are the ones where an unplanned trip can replace the objective.
xQc Built a Career Without a Pause Button
From professional Overwatch to marathon broadcasts on Twitch and Kick, xQc has turned speed, sudden changes of plan, and arguments with chat into his signature style.
CaseOh Turned Chat Into the Main Character of His Streams
From short NBA 2K videos to audiences of millions across Twitch and YouTube, CaseOh built his career on reactions, improvisation, and a community that never misses an opportunity to make a joke.
The 12 Best Single-Player Games
Agent 47 can spend ten minutes watching a target's routine before moving. A live teammate might make that silence awkward, but Hitman uses it as preparation. Single-player games can give you room to t...