Credit to Cold Symmetry for finding one of the only quiet weeks in the second half of 2026 to drop its ambitious sequel to a somewhat cookie-cutter and much-overlooked 2020 Soulslike. Mortal Shell 2 is out on Thursday, unless you paid for early access, in which case it’s out right…

Both Grounded and Grounded 2 brought a novel idea to the beloved survival genre—the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! approach to survival mechanics in the backyard and Brookhollow Park—and that has, in turn, inspired another survival game on Steam. Of course, with the way iteration and innovation in the gaming…

One of the most popular Pokemon challenges among the community will be impossible to complete in 2027. Pokemon recently announced that the Pokemon Bank on the Nintendo 3DS is shutting down on February 26, 2027, meaning players will no longer be able to transfer critters from their 3DS to their…

For good reason, developers often don’t let playable characters in video games get too overpowered, lest they make a game too easy to plow through. But Kingdom Hearts 4 seems to be straying from that principle, as Donald Duck was revealed to be a fully playable character in last weekend’s…

Look, I’m going to give it to you straight here. This game starts with cult stuff. I love cult stuff; those dancing lunatics with their uniform robes and a deep, starry-eyed belief that doing the worst, most despicable evil is a Good Idea? Yes. Give it to me. You get…

A follow-up report from a gaming industry insider laid out Blizzard’s possible plans for revealing and launching the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Diablo 4 throughout the coming weeks. As of this writing, Diablo 4 is currently available on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles, though the contents of each port…