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Steam Just Quietly Added ‘Shroom and Gloom’, A Gorgeously Grotesque Deckbuilder That Lets You Eat Your Enemies

Devolver Digital Given how popular they are these days, you’ve likely played a roguelike deckbuilder or two some time recently, but have you ever played a double-deckbuilder? No, you haven’t, because they don’t exist. But fake as the term may be, developer Team Lazerbeam and publisher Devolver Digital have just announced one anyway, and a […]

‘Expedition 33’s Big Twist Perfectly Captures the Experience of Grief

Sandfall Interactive Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has deservedly gotten a lot of attention for its superb combat system and complex storytelling. But one of the more difficult parts of the game to talk about is the massive narrative twists, which really require the entire context of the game to meaningfully examine. In particular, the first […]

‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Is Finally Making Far Cry More Fun

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is one of 2025’s biggest games. With over three million players and mostly positive reviews from fans old and new, the latest game in the open world series was the exact sort of hit publisher Ubisoft needed after back-to-back flops. Now, Ubisoft is taking the lessons it learned with Shadows’ and is […]

The Cutest Nintendo Switch Game Of The Year Gets Even Better In Its Biggest Update

Sunblink Just in time for summer, the cutest game on Nintendo Switch is heading to a snowier environment in a new update. First launched exclusively on Apple Arcade, Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a take on an Animal Crossing-style cozy life sim starring Sanrio’s characters. After coming to Nintendo Switch early in 2025, Hello Kitty […]

Steam Just Added A Turn-Based Twist On ‘Dark Souls’ Set In A Tiny, Gorgeous World

screenshot from Wirelight Even as someone who’s enjoyed a fair number of Soulslike in my time, my reaction to seeing a game advertised as one at this point is usually something like, “another one?” No one really does them as well as FromSoftware anyway, and the prospect of a tough-as-nails action game no longer really […]

Hideo Kojima’s Latest Video Game Ideas Include One I Want To Stay Far Away From

Kojima Productions Hideo Kojima has plenty of gameplay ideas involving time rolling around in his head, and he shared a handful of ones he scrapped during a recent interview about game design. On a recent episode of his radio podcast KOJI10, the storied game designer and noted cinephile shared some insight into some gameplay ideas […]

The First New Kingdom Hearts Game in Five Years Has Been Canceled

Square Enix It’s been a rough few years for Kingdom Hearts fans, between being stuck in limbo on the mobile game Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link and quite literally not a single piece of update about Kingdom Hearts 4 outside of that reveal trailer. After multiple rounds of delays and months of no new information, Square […]

Nintendo Denies Using Gaming’s Most Controversial Technology

Nintendo The , Miyamoto spoke about Nintendo’s refusal to follow the trend toward more photorealistic graphics that dominates much of the games industry. “It might seem like we are just going the opposite direction for the sake of going in the opposite direction, but it really is trying to find what makes Nintendo special,” he […]

Magic’s Final Fantasy Set Has Convinced Me To Take The Plunge

Magic: The Gathering I worked at Target over a decade ago, and every payday, a group of guys from the backroom would drop $200 each on the newest shipment of Magic: The Gathering cards. As someone who obsessively collected things, I said then and there I couldn’t get into Magic… but then Final Fantasy came […]

15 Years Later, We’re Still Obsessed With ‘Skate 3’

Electronic Arts The late ‘90s and early 2000s were the era of extreme sports. The X Games were established as part of mainstream culture. Tony Hawk landed the elusive 900. And of course, extreme sports video games shot to the top of the charts both commercially and critically. Seven years into the new millennium, a […]