Four more video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Strong National Museum of Play announced Thursday: Williams Electronics’ Defender, Rare’s GoldenEye 007, id Software’s Quake, and Bandai’s Tamagotchi. The quartet of classic games emerged from a list of 2025 World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees that also included Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest...

2K Games and developer Hangar 13 revealed a longer look at gameplay from Mafia: The Old Country on Thursday, showing how the origin story for the Mafia franchise stands apart from the open-world, organized crime competition. In fact, Hangar 13 is hinting strongly that it has no intentions to make Mafia: The Old Country your next “forever game.” Instead, the game’s creators call The Old Country “a focused, linear experience...

Nintendo is predicting that it will sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles in its current financial year — a figure that most analysts agree is too low, but that would still put it among the fastest-selling game consoles of all time. Nintendo made the forecast in a report to investors covering its previous financial year, ending in March 2025. It also predicted sales of 45 million Switch 2 games, and...

Palworld developer Pocketpair has admitted it has had to make changes to its game in response to the patent-infringement lawsuit brought against it by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company — and indicated there are more of these changes coming. In a blog post titled “Regarding the lawsuit, changes to Palworld and the future” on Thursday, Pocketpair confirmed that the removal of ball-throwing mechanic for summoning Pals in November 2024 was...

Fortnite is in the midst of a month-long Star Wars celebration, complete with a free stormtrooper skin, a new battle pass and more. While a huge chunk of new Star Wars cosmetics dropped right at the start of the new season, there are still a few already-revealed skins that haven’t been released yet. Darth Jar Jar, for example, has not revealed his plans as yet. But thanks to some established...

After a brutal year for the video game industry, 2025 is looking brighter and much busier — Nintendo promises to deliver the Switch 2 this summer with a bunch of new games to launch with it. While Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t make its previously announced 2025 release date, video game fans can count on big games like Ghost of Yotei, Elden Ring Nightreign, Death Stranding 2, Doom: The Dark Ages,...

The previously reported Xbox-branded PC handheld seems to have appeared in leaked images linked to a Federal Communications Commission filing. Spoilers: It’s a black Asus ROG Ally 2, with a little Xbox button on it. The photos were surfaced by Videocardz and Indonesian site 91mobiles from an Indonesian certification filing, itself linked to a listing by the U.S. FCC. They show two new ROG Ally consoles: a vanilla model in...

Genshin Impact will require all its players in the U.S. to verify their age by July, in order to comply with a settlement between developer HoYoverse and the Federal Trade Commission over the game’s gacha mechanics. As part of the $20 million settlement, HoYoverse is forbidden from selling loot boxes to children under 16 without express parental consent. In a brief post, HoYoverse said the age-verification process would roll out...

There’s one cut in the new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer that you’ve probably seen in a thousand movie trailers before. Two beautiful people are presented in extreme close-up. The lights are low. The music is pulsing. Their faces are close. They angle their heads and lean in closer. Their lips part and… cut! It’s a marketing technique that’s almost as old as romantic movies themselves. Build up the heat...

Xbox Game Pass continues its consistent 2025 with a mix of high-profile new games and beloved older ones. Doom: The Dark Ages is the obvious headliner — the third entry in a series of Doom reboots that revitalized the shooter series back in 2016. But don’t sleep on Revenge of the Savage Planet later this week. It’s a colorful and personable sci-fi shooter, and is also one of the rare...