Season 9 of Diablo 4, Sins of the Horadrim, will have you face off against old foes and experience an escalating end game with its release on Tuesday, July 1. With every new season of Diablo 4 comes new seasonal mechanics and content. In Sins of the Horadrim, you’ll be able to create customized spells, explore strongrooms inside Nightmare Dungeons, and craft powerful jewels to improve your builds. Additionally, players...
Tony Hawk’s been skating professionally for more than 40 years, and he doesn’t mind his fans being nostalgic for earlier parts of his career. If those fans want more remasters and remakes of past Tony Hawk games, including Tony Hawk’s Underground, he’s more than happy to give them what they want — if it’s within his power. But he wants to give them more than just fond memories repackaged, he said...
Crispy critters, Atomic Heart is officially a franchise. Formally announced at Summer Game Fest 2025 (alongside the tie-in MMO The Cube), Atomic Heart 2 portrays a new and improved Facility 3826 — a Soviet-Silicon Valley surrounded by flying cities and inhabited by scientists who, for some reason, are… sending whales to the moon? Eager to make sense of all this, I spoke via video call with Robert Bagratuni, CEO of...
Honkai: Star Rail’s patch 3.4 is coming soon, and this one has a lot of highly anticipated new stuff. This patch has the Fate/Stay Night collaboration, as well as buffs for old characters, so it’s going to be a pretty good one! Below, we explain when Honkai: Star Rail maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release time of version 3.4. We’ve also added some details about what to expect from...
We’ve all seen our fair share of battle arenas, but a battle arena in the form of a floating, rotating, basically shape-shifting block? That’s new. It’s called (what else?) The Cube, and it’s a massive multiplayer shooter from Atomic Heart developer Mundfish. Of all the 2025 Summer Game Fest announcements, The Cube struck me, thanks to its ambitious hexahedronic design. To learn more, I recently sat down for a remote...
Celebrity cameos are a huge part of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the PlayStation 5 game about going “Oh hey look, it’s that guy” while you navigate the apocalypse. The cast of Death Stranding 2 — both the main cast and the characters who pop up in bit parts — is full of stars from various countries, but a lot of these cameos are missable if you don’t know...
Your Porter Grade might initially seem like a fluffy little throwaway system in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, just a way to get new tags that show up when other players interact with your objects in the world. It’s much more than that, though. Increasing your Porter Grade unlocks new APAS enhancements once you make a bit of progress in the main story, and those let you customize Sam’s...
Fast travel remains out of your reach for the first several hours of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, so you’ll have to tip over, fall down cliffs, and travel around Mexico and Australia on foot for the first dozen missions. When you do unlock fast travel, it also comes with a caveat that’s worth bearing in mind if you want to get the best ratings possible for every delivery....
The “pretend you won” option in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a small, but radical little choice. It pops after you fail a boss fight and lets you skip the encounter entirely with a brief text explainer telling you how things would’ve unfolded if you won. You might get a lower ranking or miss one or two non-essential scenes for choosing this option, but there’s no judgment, no...
Helldivers 2 launched in February 2024 to critical acclaim, winning a multitude of awards, including Best Ongoing Game and Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards. Aside from some server issues resulting from the sheer number of players attempting to access the game, Helldivers 2 launched without a hitch… until May 2024, when it was announced that, going forward, PC players accessing the game via Steam would be required to...