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Minecraft's First New Dimension in Over 15 Years: What We Know So Far
For a game defined by limitless exploration, Minecraft has been surprisingly conservative about one thing: entirely new worlds. The Nether arrived in 2010. The End followed in 2011. In the decade and...
John Goodman, Laura Bailey, and Ian Alexander Join HBO's The Last of Us Season 3: Casting News, Returning Favorites, and What It Means for the Final Chapter
The Announcement: Who's Joining and When It Dropped HBO announced the Season 3 additions of John Goodman, Laura Bailey, and Ian Alexander on September 26, deliberately timed to Outbreak Day. Goodman...
Microsoft CEO Calls Xbox Layoffs 'Great to See' - The Tone-Deaf Optimism Behind Gaming's Biggest Restructure
What Satya Nadella Actually Said, and Why It Landed So Badly According to secondary reporting, Nadella's comment referenced "some amount of streamlining Asha is doing... which is great to see."...
Cyberpunk 2077's Chimera Tank Took CD Projekt Red Two Years to Build
The Chimera Took Two Years and Four Rebuilds, For a Fight That Lasts Minutes Players who tore through Phantom Liberty's opening act last fall will remember the moment: V and President Rosalind Myers,...
Sony Reportedly Surveying Developers About the End of PlayStation Discs - Is the All-Digital Plan Already Cracking?
Sony Interactive Entertainment has already made one thing abundantly clear: physical disc production for new PlayStation games ends in January 2028. That decision, announced with little ambiguity,...
GTA 6 Fans Are Already 3D Printing the $400 Collector's Edition's Macca the Gator - Here's How
GTA 6 Fans Are Already 3D Printing the $400 Collector's Edition's Macca the Gator - Here's How Rockstar Games unveiled its $399.99 "GTA 6: The Goodtime State - Vice City Collection" on September 24,...
Beyond Good & Evil 2: The Game That Refuses to Die After 19 Years
There is a game in development right now at Ubisoft that has been in the works for so long that some of the people building it were not yet born when its predecessor launched. That game is Beyond...
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Review - A 30th Anniversary Flight Worth Taking
A Franchise High Point, By the Numbers The aggregate picture is about as clean as a flight-combat game could hope for. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve holds an 88 Metascore across 49 critic reviews,...
Film Grain vs Bloom: Inside PC Gamer's Bracket to Crown Gaming's Worst Graphical Effect
Every PC player knows the ritual. A game boots up looking slightly wrong, washed out, hazy, or speckled with noise, and the hunt begins. Through the settings menu, past the resolution and frame rate...
Marathon's Player Slump Deepens as Bungie Promises to Grow the Shooter "Beyond Extraction"
Few studios can claim to have shaped the extraction shooter the way Bungie has. Now, in one of the more uncomfortable ironies of the current gaming landscape, the studio appears to be hedging against...
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Is Free on Switch This Week - Here's What You Need to Know
One of 2024's most celebrated games is available to play in its entirety, at no cost, for roughly the next seven days. There is a catch, and it is worth stating plainly before anything else: this...
HP OMEN RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC Drops to $1,899: Walmart GeForce Week Deal Breakdown (and Why It's Moving Fast)
A prebuilt gaming PC with Nvidia's most sensible Blackwell graphics card has surfaced at $1,899, and stock is reportedly disappearing fast. That price represents a genuine cut against what a...
Arc Raiders Is Finally Testing a PvE-Only Mode: 'We Can't Ignore What the Data Is Telling Us'
Arc Raiders was built and sold as a PvPvE extraction shooter, a game where the threat of other players is supposed to be as real as the mechanized ARC machines prowling the surface. Yet for months,...
Minecraft Beat Minecraft: How 2 Billion Simulated Years Let the Game Finish Itself
Minecraft Beat Minecraft: The Strange Case of a Game That Finished Itself Somewhere in a simulated Minecraft world, a dragon died. No one was there to see it. No one swung a sword, drew a bow, or...
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Review Roundup - A Massive Switch 2 Tactical RPG Earns an 89 on Metacritic
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has matched the series' modern high-water mark. With an 89 on Metacritic across 66 reviews and a 98% OpenCritic recommendation rate across 41 reviews, the first mainline...