Words don’t tend to mean much these days. We don’t have museums anymore, we have ‘immersive experiences’. It’s not art, it’s ‘content’. There are no audiences, only ‘demographics’. Tweets aren’t even tweets anymore, they’re ‘posts on X - The Everything App’. And, in a similar vein,Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Touris not a video game. It’s not an immersive experience, it has no content, and it’s made for no demographic I can think of....

Video game mascots may not be as prominent as they once were, but there are still certain characters we strongly associate with specific brands, developers, and publishers. The latest one to take the stage isAstro Bot, masquerading as PlayStation’s mascot. When Astro’s Playroom came free with all PS5s, Astro Bot’s fate was sealed. However, I, personally, do not accept it. Sony didn’t consult us, the players, when changing up who represents it, and some would argue it doesn’t have to, but I still feel insulted....

Thanks toPeakselling another million copies since its last sales milestone, the developers over at Landcrab have confirmed that they’re considering possible future updates. 2025 has been absolutely packed with massive triple-A games, fromDoom: The Dark AgestoDeath Stranding 2. As great as they are, though, the real big surprises and successes have actually seemed to come from indie games,which we saw at the start of the year with Schedule 1. Over the past few weeks,another surprise contender for biggest indie game of the year emerged out of nowhere - Peak....

Summary Yesterday, insider eXtas1s claimed thatXbox was testing Steam integration for the Microsoft Storein preparation for its next-gen console. This has been rumoured for months, withMicrosoft even posting a mock-up Xbox UI featuring a ‘Steam’ tab, supporting the reports that its new console is more of a gaming PC hybrid. If that’s the case, there are some interesting implications. Not only would Xbox have access to decades of gaming history, meaning built-in backwards compatibility, but it would also be privy to Steam’s growing library of PlayStation exclusives....

PlayStationcould be gearing up to share more of its games with rival platforms. This is according to a job listing being shared online, in which PlayStation is recruiting for a senior manager to oversee future ports toXbox,Nintendo Switch 2, and more. If PlayStation really is doubling down on its multiplatform efforts, that would be in keeping with what we have seen from the company in recent years. Increasingly, the gap betweena PlayStation exclusive coming to PCis shortening, and we’re even seeing some titles come to Xbox,such as Helldivers 2....

Ride to Hell: Retribution, one of the worst video games ever made, somehow had a spin-off in development known as Route 666, and footage from an early build has already surfaced. Although the world of video games still hasmorethan its fair share of problems, the quality of games has frankly never been better. Sure, we get aConcordandMindsEyehere and there, but we’re mostly met with stellar releases pretty much everywhere we look....

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Capcomis one of the most well-respected video game developers ever. The company has been around for a long time and hasdeveloped many successful games. Yet, the most impressive thing about the studio isn’t how many fantastic individual titles it has made - it’s how many excellent series those games have spawned. Most developers are responsible for one or two successful series, while Capcom has a bunch of them in all different genres....

Quick Links Soon after starting your journey inUmamusume: Pretty Derby, you’ll already have quite a big roster of characters with just a few pulls, especially if you get lucky. With every ten pulls on the character banner, you’re guaranteed to get a two-star horse girl, which lets you easily bring them to three-star. El Condor Pasa is one such two-star Umamusume, and she is one of the most flexible units in the game....

There are hundreds upon hundreds of free games onSteam, but most of them fit into two categories: microtransaction-ridden slop or CS-grad’s first game. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with playing F2P games with microtransactions like gacha games or supporting new game developers, but if you’re looking for free games that actually respect your time, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re on a budget but still want to have fun, here are some free games on Steam that are actually worth playing....

Looking back at the olderPokemon TCGgenerations brings back plenty of nostalgia from the first few generations, when things were simple, and there wasno such thing as the Fairy type.While the focus is on thebooming modern Pokemon card market,older cards continue to rise in value. Some of the most valuable cards from the HeartGold & SoulSilver era have been flying under the radar as other eras command attention, but prices are rising all the same....

When you’ve been playingThe Simsas long as I have, you end up getting a little creative with the gameplay – just how much can we “play with life,” as the game’s slogan invites us to do? Sims Challenges began as player-made content shared through fan forums and Tumblr in the 2010s, seeking to add optional twists to the game. There was the Apocalypse Challenge that asked you to eviscerate the town and slowly rebuild by way of career progression and self-imposed rules....