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12 Best Zelda: TOTK Replay Ideas and Challenge Runs
Looking for a new way to play Tears of the Kingdom? Here are 12 challenge runs and roleplay ideas, from banning fast travel to siding with the Yiga.

Ron Gilbert talks the untraditional way he got Thimbleweed Park 2 funded, and his frustrations with modern publishing deals
I think it would be a tad fair if you heard that Thimbleweed Park 2 is in the works and thought, "who funded that?" Not because it doesn't deserve funding, but because adventure games aren't exactly…

O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey
Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with. You…

Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says 'it just wasn't for me at the time'
Pedro Pascal did a great job, but you can see it, right?

'Fortnite's Unstable Event And Sonic Comic Seemingly Confirm Massive Chapter 7 Season 4 Leak
A key art leak for Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 seems authentic after the game's Unstable story event and the release of a Sonic crossover comic

'Kaiju No. 8' Officially Returns in 3 Weeks After 1 Year of Waiting — but There’s a Catch
Kaiju No. 8 is finally set to return soon, offering audiences a chance to experience one of its strongest and funniest personalities.

Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes
Stonecutters-level opsec.

Rare Two-Player Version Of First Arcade Game Up For Auction From Shiny Entertainment Founder
Computer Space is often regarded as the first commercially distributed arcade machine, and David Perry’s personal two-player unit of this historical artifact is now up for grabs

"For a few weeks, women were just dropping their babies": The Witcher 3 lead on designing NPCs that react appropriately
Gone are the days where a developer could give an NPC maybe two lines of dialogue and call it a day. The steady shift to realism essentially enforces the idea that characters must behave…

Hades Fans Need to Try 2019's Co-op Riff on the Roguelike Formula
Children of Morta is an excellent multiplayer roguelike games, and one of just a few that, like Hades, makes unfolding family drama its centerpiece

The Best PS1 RPG Is a 10/10 Masterpiece 26 Years Later
The original PlayStation was filled to the brim with amazing RPGs, but one entry in a fabled franchise stands out from the crowd as a masterpiece.

Slay the Spire 2 updates are slowing down again, but don't fear, it's all in the name of more modes, an alternate Act 2, and a character with a bandaged foot
Slay the Spire 2 has been moving at a solid pace since it launched into early access back in March, but back in May developer Mega Crit shared that updates would be switching to once every two weeks…

Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'
"Today, if you said 'give me a Witcher 3 village that has eight houses', I could give you that in two hours."

Former Square Enix Exec Believes Disc-Free PlayStation Will Drive Game Prices Down
Jacob Navok says that a world without physical media will put major publishers in constant competition with each other, though how that would drive costs down is just a theory

Nintendo's stinking "nap room" for overworked devs haunted legendary Super Metroid director for years: "It’s quite sad only having these kinds of memories!"
"One morning staff from another area came to wake us up and told us that the room smelled like a zoo"

I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better
Time, Dr Freeman?

'Epic Mickey' Fans Vindicated With 2027 'Oswald' Series Announcement
Disney bought Oswald the Lucky Rabbit back 20 years ago so the character could appear in Epic Mickey. Now, Oswald is getting a Disney Plus series

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's meaty 2.0 update brings functional fog, a suite of A-Life improvements, and more when it arrives next week
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's big 2.0 update is right around the corner, and developer GSC Game World have shared a plethora of details of what you can expect from it. For starters, the shooter is…

Tetsuya Nomura Says ‘Let Your Imaginations Run Wild’ On Kingdom Hearts Animated Series, So I Will
Mr. Nomura will you be including Miramax movies? Will you be incorporating Hollywood Pictures? Will Sora and Encino Man fight the Heartless?

The 10 Best Classic Video Games That Need Modern Remakes
From across classic consoles and computer platforms, there are 10 great games that deserve remakes so they can reach a modern audience.

EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy.

Sean Murray says a "weight had lifted" when No Man's Sky players were finally talking more about its new content than its controversial launch
"Every reply was laced with some slightly mean things" for years

Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch
Venture characters seem inspired by the seasonal and ironman modes found in ARPGs.

'Disney Dreamlight Valley' Will Get Free 'Lilo & Stitch' and 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Updates
The content roadmap for Disney Dreamlight Valley revealed two exciting content updates coming in September and December.
