I love trying out new first-person shooters, but the genre doesn’t seem to drop games regularlyanymore. Let’s take October 2026 as an example: aside from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, what other major FPS games debut that month? Unless somebody keeps a very close eye on the non-franchise side…

Most Soulslike RPGs stick to FromSoftware’s progression system, realizing there’s no point in trying to fix what isn’t broken. However, exceptions exist to every rule, and a handful of developers have attempted to reinvent the wheel, to mixed results. Just because something is unique doesn’t automatically make it good, but…

Final Fantasy has never been a series that was particularly shy about turning its worlds, characters, and stories into things fans could remember long after finishing a game, and that’s exactly what’s happening with Final Fantasy 9. The franchise has been around for decades now, and Square Enix has continued…

As the studio behind one of the most highly anticipated games of all time, GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games has divulged more details on how it keeps its secrets. As part of a hearing, which began yesterday at the Glasgow Employment Tribunal–in which Rockstar Games has been accused of unlawfully…

I’ve recently found myself drawn to media portrayals of summer in rural Japan, of which there are many. I think I’m feeling a weird sort of half-nostalgia. I’ve never experienced a Japanese summer specifically. But we’re suffering from a dearth of games about American suburban summers, and games like Boku…

Remedy Entertainment’s latest action RPG Control Resonant, set to release on September 24, is doing something with difficulty settings that I wish more games would do. The mechanic featured in Control Resonant is called expanded Assist Mode, and it makes standard easy, medium, and hard seem quite outdated. This is…