Order of the Sinking Star, like the puzzles it contains, is a game I have a lot of complex, often conflicting, feelings about. As a collection of sokoban puzzles? It’s excellent. As a narrative, or an overarching mystery like Blue Prince or Animal Well or Void Stranger? Significantly weaker. As…

Physical games have been disappearing from the gaming landscape for years, but Sony’s plans for PlayStation are taking that trend much further when it ends new disc production in January 2028. Digital games are obviously convenient, and there is little argument that downloading a game is easier than driving to…

Rockstar Games has spent years keeping Grand Theft Auto 6 surrounded by questions, speculation, and long stretches of silence. The game is now in a very different position, though, with its release date sitting close enough that the final stretch is becoming impossible to ignore. Every passing week brings Grand…

With Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in the bag, details on what this merger means for the Warner Bros. game division have finally been revealed. Warner Bros. Interactive will merge with the newly formed Paramount Games Studio, and it’ll oversee projects based on Skydance’s rich–and newly acquired-library…

Rumors are flying that Evening Star, the developer behind Sonic Mania, is working on a new Ape Escape game, the first in over 15 years since 2011’s PlayStation Move Ape Escape created for the PS3 wand peripheral. Word has come from both Jeff Gerstmann and VGC that the classic series is…

It is most certainly not a coincidence that Red Dead Redemption 2 is widely considered to be one of the most immersive open-world games out there. It’s also safe to say that its NPCs deserve at least some of the credit for this reputation. They don’t just fill the towns…