Sometimes all it takes to make a new subgenre is an apostrophe. With just one hardworking punctuation mark, the newly christened J'RPG describes a refreshingly French spin on Japanese turn-based roleplaying games, and players can't get enough of its irresistible je ne sais quoi.J'RPG is a particularly brilliant fit for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Sandfall Interactive's tale of saving dark-fantasy Paris from a series of increasingly unhappy birthdays boasts whimsical...

Sloclap is known for creating the Kung-Fu brawler Absolver, which was then followed up by a partnership with Kelper Interactive for another Kung-Fu brawler, Sifu. So, as you would expect, the next game from the studio is an online multiplayer five-a-side football showdown (that being real football, not whatever the Yanks play), called Rematch—Fifu was right there.Now, being the kid who was bad at sports (and thus always put in...

We're used to FromSoftware games being hard, but Elden Ring Nightreign can be mean. You're going to run into at least one evil Nightlord, confusing objective or under-explained mechanic in this co-op action game and wonder how the heck you were supposed to survive, let alone win the day.We've written a ton of Elden Ring Nightreign guides to help lessen its sting. You'll find all of them below, organized into...

Point 'n' click adventurers eat well in 2025: every week there's at least a couple of interesting ones released on Steam, like last week's Kathy Rain 2, or the week before that, Neon Hearts City. Despite my wishlist bulging with these things, I'm especially excited about The Drifter.Developed by Powerhoof, the studio responsible for Crawl and Peridium, The Drifter is a gritty, seedy take on the works of "King, Crichton...

It was a heavy loss in games journalism when Game Informer got kicked to the curb last fall, but it got over its own death pretty quickly when game dev and blockchain company Gunzilla financed its resurrection in March. A few projects were announced back then, including a return to print—but if you want to reminisce about the days when Game Informer was hot off the presses, its archive just...

Lost Planet 2, Capcom's sci-fi third-person shooter that's a little like space Monster Hunter with mechs, massive aliens, and sweet, sweet T-ENG, has spent years in a purgatory of neglect. As one of the countless games left in a state of disrepair after Microsoft discontinued support for its universally despised Games for Windows Live, Lost Planet 2 was made unavailable for purchase on Steam in 2021 so that Capcom could...

Season of Discovery is an odd one. It's an offshoot of WoW Classic—a recreation of World of Warcraft circa 2006—which soups it up with all sorts of new build options, raids, legendary weapons, and wild PvP events. For fans, it's been like peering into an alternate reality where WoW stuck to its guns and never reinvented itself with the times.Well, show's over, buddy: Blizzard announced this week in a blog...

War Sails, the Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord expansion announced in March, has been delayed. Instead of launching on June 17 as planned, developer TaleWorlds Entertainment says it's now on track for release in early fall."After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready by the originally planned release date of June 17th," the studio wrote in an update. "The title is currently...

Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.25 ushered in yet another Allied Society adventure, bringing us one step closer to completing Dawntrail's sidequest series with two out of three planned for Tural now available. The FF14 Mamool Ja questline digs a little deeper into relations between Yak T'el's villages, picking up where the region's sidequests left off in 7.0.The Pelupelu Allied Society update offered ways to gain easy levels for your combat...

There was more than the usual swell of anticipation for Nvidia's latest earnings call, primarily because the last quarter has been tumultuous in the wake of US tariffs and trade restrictions. On this front, and despite the fact that the AI chip giant still seems to be doing phenomenally well, Nvidia has admitted export controls have fully killed off its Hopper generation GPUs in China.During the company's recent Q1 earnings...