Now's The Perfect Time To Grab Civilization 6 For Free While Civ 7 Is Still In Its Rebuilding Phase
17.7.2025
Months later, Civilization 7 still isn’t quite where it needs to be. It’s getting new updates all the time, but it’s still getting panned by fans for lacking features and feeling incomplete by the 4X strategy series’ standards. Fortunately, Civilization 6 is currently free to claim on Epic games...
I'm Sad I'll Never Get To Order The Mega Fries
17.7.2025
I’ll never get to see the Beatles live. I’ll never get to watch a T-Rex run through the jungle. And now I can add one more entry to my list of “Cool shit I missed out on.” I’ll never get a chance to order and then eat McDonald’s mega fries. The universe is cruel. Read more
New Tron: Ares Trailer Looks Good...Ah, Damn, I Forgot Jared Leto Is In It
17.7.2025
The first official trailer for Tron: Ares is here, and it looks like a different but possibly very cool installment in Disney’s cult classic sci-fi franchise. Seeing Tron vehicles and characters enter the real world is neat and—Oh damn it, I totally forgot Jared Leto is, like, the main star of this...
Rematch: 4 Essential Tips To Improve Your Game
17.7.2025
Rematch is developer Sloclap’s (Sifu, Absolver) latest game. It’s a soccer game (or football for you Europeans)currently in early access. It’s a surprisingly authentic soccer game that takes some creative liberties, such as placing a barrier on the edges of the field so the ball can’t go out...
This Short And Sweet RPG Spins Up A Beautiful Deckbuilding Melody
17.7.2025
Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson is the kind of genre-blending mismatch that’s just crazy enough to work. A turn-based deck-building rhythm game clearly made by musicians with a care for the craft scratches an itch for me that a lot of more straightforward rhythm games don’t. Like Hi-Fi Rush before...
You’re Gonna Have To Put In The Work To Romance Goddess Matsuri In Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma
17.7.2025
When it comes to romance in most cozy video games, you usually wind up dating and marrying someone from town. Maybe they’re nice, but also a little plain. Attractive, but not hot. . Well, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma shakes up this stale formula by letting you romance literal gods of seasons...
Persona 5 Gacha Studio Acknowledges Angry Feedback, Promises Response
17.7.2025
Persona 5: The Phantom X has faced a sudden barrage of criticism in the wake of its western launch. The team at Black Wings Game Studio was met with backlash after it was announced the gacha game would be accelerating its story rollout to catch up to the original Chinese version, and fans...
Helldivers 2 Players Are Now Using Dark Matter To Warp Through Bunkers
17.7.2025
Helldivers 2's latest battle pass rewards went live today and they include some really neat tech. In addition to new laser turrets and electrical grenades, the new Control Group Warbond lets players unlock a dark matter-powered jetpack that lets them blink around the battlefield like Overwatch’s...
Help, The PS5 Store Is Flooded With AI Slop
17.7.2025
I was recently digging through the PlayStation Store’s upcoming games section when I spotted a clearly AI-generated image of a shark in shoes. “Strange,” I thought to myself. And then I saw another. And then three more. And then even more. That’s when I realized AI slop has fully infested the...
Mortal Kombat II’s First Trailer Is Bloody, Cheesy, And Full of Johnny Cage
17.7.2025
Mortal Kombat II, the second film in Warner Bros. live-action reboot of the fighting game adaptation, got its first trailer today, and I hope you like Johnny Cage, because it looks like he’s the star of the show this time. That’s not terribly surprising, I suppose, given Cage’s love of...
Assassin's Creed TV Show Announced 5-Years Ago Finally Moving Forward At Netflix
17.7.2025
We’re getting flooded with TV adaptations of popular video game franchises these days, but Assassin’s Creed is a better fit than most. Announced over three years ago, the Netflix show based on the long-running Ubisoft series is finally moving forward, the companies announced today, though...
Original Crash Lead Programmer Says N. Sane Trilogy 'Completely Botched How Jumping Works'
17.7.2025
As is being discussed over on Resetera, a LinkedIn post from Naughty Dog co-founder and lead programmer on the original Crash Bandicoot from 1996, Andrew (Andy) Gavin, dives into a critical difference between the original box-bashing bandicoot experience and Vicarious Visions’ 2017 remakes, which...