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In a year packed with extraordinary games, DOOM: The Dark Ages arrived on May 15, 2025 and did something unexpected: it dared to slow down. The fastest, most frantic FPS franchise in gaming history made a deliberate pivot — heavier combat, more grounded mechanics, a medieval war against Hell — and id Software pulled it off with a Metacritic score of 89, the highest for any game in the modern DOOM
There are games you play and enjoy. And then there are games that make you close the controller, sit in silence, and just breathe for a few minutes before you can move on with your day. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the latter kind. The debut game from French studio Sandfall Interactive, released on April 24, 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, did something almost no game has ever done: it wo
It has been seven years since Slay the Spire redefined what a card game could be. One of the most influential indie games ever made — a game that inspired an entire genre — has finally received its sequel. Slay the Spire 2 entered Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026 for PC, macOS, and Linux at $24.99, and within days it peaked at 282,323 concurrent players. The Spire is back. And it is hungrier th
The biggest international League of Legends event of the first half of the year is coming — and it is heading somewhere it has never been before. MSI 2026, the 11th edition of Riot Games' Mid-Season Invitational, will be held in Daejeon, South Korea at the Daejeon Convention Center II from June 28 to July 12, 2026. Eleven teams from the world's top competitive regions will battle for the MSI title
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Before Goodfellas. Before The Godfather. Before any of it — there was Sicily. Mafia: The Old Country, developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K Games, takes the beloved crime franchise back to its earliest roots, stripping away the sprawling open world and delivering something far more focused, cinematic, and emotionally raw. Released on August 8, 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, it is alre
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The creators of Fallout 1 and 2, Wasteland, and Arcanum are going bigger than they ever have before. Clockwork Revolution, developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios, is the studio's first AAA title under the Xbox umbrella — and by every account, it is the most complex, ambitious, and narratively rich game in inXile's history. Expected to arrive on PC and Xbox Series X/S
The creators of The Last of Us and Uncharted are going to space. After years of silence, speculation, and one of the most unexpected reveal trailers in gaming history, Naughty Dog officially announced their next project at The Game Awards 2024 — and it is unlike anything the studio has ever made. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a PS5 exclusive action-adventure set two thousand years in the f
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Seven years. That is how long fans of the greatest arcade flight combat franchise in gaming history have been waiting. Since Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown launched in 2019 and went on to become the best-selling entry in the series with over seven million copies sold, Project Aces went quiet — and the Ace Combat community waited, hoped, and held its breath. At The Game Awards 2025, the wait ended. AC
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Some games arrive and immediately establish themselves as something special. South of Midnight is exactly that kind of game. Originally launched in April 2025 exclusively on Xbox Series X/S and PC, Compulsion Games' Southern Gothic masterpiece has spent a year accumulating critical acclaim, awards, and an audience that fell completely in love with its world. Now, as of March 31, 2026, PlayStation
For six years, Sony gave PC players something they never expected: access to PlayStation's greatest single-player games. God of War. The Last of Us. Ghost of Tsushima. Returnal. Horizon Zero Dawn. One by one, they landed on Steam — sometimes a year late, sometimes two, but they arrived. PC players bought them in numbers that made the ports commercially viable, or so it seemed.That experiment is no
After years of mounting financial pressure, disappointing releases, and a stock price in freefall, Ubisoft finally pulled the trigger. On January 21, 2026, the French gaming giant — once one of the most powerful publishers in the world — announced the most dramatic restructuring in its four-decade history. Six games canceled. Seven games delayed. Two studios permanently closed. Hundreds of jobs lo
If you have been thinking about upgrading your GPU, buying more RAM, or building a new gaming PC in 2026, you need to read this. The gaming hardware market is in the middle of a crisis unlike anything it has experienced before — and the culprit is artificial intelligence.
