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An Ambitious But Flawed Open-World Shooter Gets Another Chance With A Huge New Update

GSC Game World After a 15-year wait, Stalker 2 launched in late 2024, but all was not well in the Zone. Despite pulling off much of what it set out to do, the massively ambitious open-world shooter was held back somewhat by a slew of bugs and performance issues. After addressing many of those problems […]

‘Dune Awakening’ Finally Gets Dune’s Epic Scale Right

Funcom It sucks to be on Arrakis. It’s sweltering and unforgiving sun stifles surface life. Its apex predator makes the simple act of moving across its barren landscapes oppressive. Its sand is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere. This is the primary detail Frank Herbert drives home in the first book of his […]

‘Death Stranding 2’ Inventor Guide: Three Ways to Reach the Game’s Trickiest Facility

Kojima Productions Death Stranding 2’s Australia is quite a bit bigger than the North America players explored in the first game, as there’s a whopping 42 facilities to bring onto the Chiral Network this time around. Most of these facilities are linked up as part of the story, but there are a handful you’ll have […]

How Long It Takes to Beat ‘Death Stranding 2’ With Chapters, Side Content

Kojima Productions Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is Hideo Kojima’s latest mind-bending sci-fi epic, once again taking players into a post-apocalyptic world where humans live isolated and disconnected. This time around, Sam Porter Bridges sets out on a new expedition to reconnect Mexico and Australia, a world-roving trip filled with packages and cargo to […]

25 Years Ago, One Cyberpunk Masterpiece Changed Video Games Forever

Eidos Interactive Immersive is a word that you hear used to described video games almost too much these days, almost losing its meaning. But it’s also a word that’s been so important to the idea of how we interact with video games that there’s an entire genre based around it — the “immersive sim.” An […]

Hideo Kojima Wants To Shake Up The Fashion World Next

Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images Hideo Kojima is constantly trying to push the envelope, even in a recent collab with Uniqlo’s sister brand, GU, with Death Stranding branded fashion. He says his favorite item of the GU collaboration is a uniquely-shaped T-shirt. “If your mother does laundry, she’ll probably say, ‘This is crooked, maybe you have a misprinted […]

‘Shadow Labyrinth’ Turns Pac-Man On Its Head With a Gritty Sci-Fi Metroidvania

Bandai Namco Everyone knows Pac-Man’s little dots, ghosts, and waka-waka noises, so it’s a bit jarring to see the iconic puck mercilessly devour grotesque creatures. But that’s exactly what happens in Shadow Labyrinth, a bizarre Metroidvania that puts a cerebral twist on Pac-Man, celebrates Namco’s history, and serves as the bedrock of a fascinating new […]

‘Control’ Developer Is Already Making Huge Changes To Its Underwhelming New Shooter

Remedy Entertainment After the success of the supernatural adventure and indie darling Control, Remedy Entertainment made an unconventional return to the world of its hit game with FBC: Firebreak. Set in the Federal Bureau of Control’s base, FBC: Firebreak is an oddity both as a Remedy game and a multiplayer shooter, but early impressions haven’t […]

‘Arcane’ Spinoffs Are Still In A “Developing and Exploration Phase,” Creators Tease

Netflix One of the most touching scenes in Arcane Season 2 comes when Jinx confronts the specter of her adoptive father, now metamorphized by a science experiment into an inhumane beast named Warwick. Eyes seething red, he’s poised to take her out, but something within him stops him, despite himself. A flicker of faint recognition. […]

The Most Exciting Apocalypse Franchise’s Next Adaptation Just Got A Promising Update

Kojima Productions Death Stranding has become a cult hit for a faction of video game players, but its upcoming live-action adaptation, , Guzikowski is writing a new story couched in the world of Kojima’s game. The anime will be set in the immediate aftermath of the “Death Stranding,” a cataclysmic event that shattered the world […]