In an industry already tanking a bunch of hits, full of layoffs and studio closures, the Japanese games industry seemed to be an exception in 2025—as noted by an analyst last month, five out of eight major publishers and studios hit all-time share price highs at the start of this year, with their only real issue being a lack of staff.Well, the tariffs imposed by the United States have begun...

Following a hype trail that's included an ARG and a pretty sweet trailer complete with robotic animal life and a bold color scheme, Bungie has announced a "Marathon gameplay reveal" is due on April 12.The reboot of Bungie's classic FPS as a multiplayer extraction shooter sure looks and sounds stylish, but the studio's been real tight with the details so far. Back in October a developer update explained it would...

We've got a hint for today's Wordle right here and ready to help get your Monday game off to the perfect start. It's been designed to give you a boost without giving the answer away (not straight away, anyway), so why not take a quick peek? And same as always, the answer to the April 7 (1388) Wordle's waiting just below if you need it.I was so excited to see...

Tabletop wargame BattleTech is getting its first real alternate universe in its 40 year history, and it's a pretty obvious one: If you have a giant robot, well, why should it not fight a giant monster?BattleTech: Gothic is an alternate timeline for the world of BattleTech, one where endless and unrestricted warfare among the great houses of the Inner Sphere has led to a scorched human landscape stalked not just...

Before the disaster that was Stadia, Google demoed its game streaming tech via a free version of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey you could play in your browser. My fiancée has fond memories of whiling away slow nights at work playing this massive triple-A game on a crummy library OptiPlex.Whatever came after with Stadia and game streaming in general, that demo felt like black magic. If a genuinely impressive tech demo can...

Challenged to a supernatural game by the sultan, you have to fulfill the conditions of a mystical game that demands you commit dreadful sins: Carnality, Bloodshed, Conquest, and Extravagance.You'll have to desperately scheme, manage your limited resources, and explore the depths and heights of society to win a stay of execution—and to survive the consequences of the horrible things you did to win.Sultan's Game is a really cool narrative card...

  Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year's Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio's upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive in the first place.Kick recounted the unlikely story of how he found himself making...

Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of recent years, taking the SimCity cycle of building cities destined to be destroyed by natural disasters and infusing it with a roguelike structure, such that the death of your city is merely a part of the game, rather than the end of it. Yet alongside this, one of the key secrets to its success is the diverse array of anthropomorphic...

Rust is, famously, an unforgiving affair, a survival game where someone murdering you and stealing everything you own is also known as 'Tuesday'. But Facepunch's open-world cruelty simulator does have at least one merciful bone in its emaciated, battle-scarred body. In 2021, Facepunch added a softcore mode, which mitigates some of the vanilla game's brutality with features like safe spawning zones and the ability to recover some of your loot...

Pacific Drive received its "largest ever free content update" this week, one which introduces a brand new way of playing Ironwood Studios' vehicular survival game. But you'd better step away from the newswheel, bucko, because I'm hijacking this article for my own devious ends. While the headline addition of the update is some fancy-sounding expeditions, it's a secondary feature developer Ironwood Studios has folded in, which actually made me consider...