Updated on June 26, 2026, by Mark Sammut: We’ve added a couple more open-world games that excel at exploration, including a remake that just dropped earlier this month. Open-world games cover such a vast spectrum of genres and themes that comparing projects can be kind of pointless. Just Cause 2,…

Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games has revealed a handful of new gameplay features coming to the open-world crime game at launch, including how protagonists Jason and Lucia work, how the open-world operates, and how social networks are integrated into the game. Of course, given how the first GTA…

The Steam Summer Sale has slashed prices on roughly a billion games, and there’s no point in recommending traditional discounts, since everyone simply uses their wishlist to streamline the offers. So, let’s take a different approach by highlighting games on sale that will absolutely break you. If you’re into humiliation,…

“Breaking news,” the official Sonic the Hedgehog account announced on June 23. “The Chaos Emeralds have destabilized and are scattering across the U.S. We need your help to recover them before Dr. Eggman finds them so we can power Club Chaos this Fall.” The message was part of an urgent…

It’s odd how rare it is to hear an Australian accent in a video game. In point-and-click adventure The Drifter, however, you’ll hear a lot of them, along with some superb Aussie vernacular. The Drifter is a lengthy tale of an itinerant man who, on discovering he cannot die, becomes…

Bungie is laying off “most” of the Destiny 2 team after the shooter MMO’s final update earlier this month. According to a statement from the PlayStation-owned studio, the company determined the game “fell short of expectations these past several years,” and is now restructuring its workforce as its next projects…