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Big Walk is here, and it’s already earning a reputation for being a delightfully offbeat third space for friends to inhabit. It’s a massive game, and as players have discovered, it does have a slight microphone problem currently–one that developer House House is working on fixing. “We understand that some people are having a problem where their friends’ voices are too quiet in the game. Sorry about this,” House House wrote in a blog update. “While Big Walk is built around players getting quieter when they are farther away, we can see that for some setups, players’ voices are much…

By now, if you’re a Final Fantasy XIV player, you’re sick of the copypasta that starts, “Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV?” But loathe as I am to invoke a meme that’s long, long been run into the ground…it’s actually relevant again. Final Fantasy XIV is out on the Nintendo Switch 2 today. And if you’re one of the folks interested in trying the critically acclaimed MMORPG on the go, you may be tempted to buy one of the versions that’s now on sale at 30 percent off. But you shouldn’t. Because, as the meme…

Published Aug 4, 2026, 5:21 PM EDT Build your Marvel dream team Image: Arc System Works/Sony Interactive Entertainment Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Soulsis a four-vs-four tag-team fighter that will be released on Thursday, Aug. 6. In this fighter, you’ll be able to play as iconic superheroes, like Iron Man and Spider-Man, and beloved villains like Doctor Doom and Carnage. But that’s not all, as you can combine any of your four favorite Marvel characters to build your own dream team.If you’re dying to get into the action, here’s what time you can playMarvel Tōkon: Fighting Soulsin your time zone. What time does…

With the release date of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave steadily drawing closer, Nintendo has started to reveal more details about the next chapter in its longrunning tactical-RPG series. Ever since Fire Emblem: Awakening successfully brought the series back from the brink of cancellation, the series has gone from strength to strength over the years, evolving its signature gameplay in well-received successor titles like Conquest, Revelations, and Three Houses. While 2023’s Fire Emblem: Engage may not have reached those same heights, Fortune’s Weave looks like it’s aiming to return to the standard set by Three Houses with the return of Sothis,…

Beast of Reincarnation is out now, and Game Freak’s got a pretty good if flawed action-RPG on its hands. The game follows Emma and Koo, a girl and her wolf-like companion who grow to care for one another over the course of the game. However, if you’re an animal lover who can’t stand the sight of dogs, including big ones like Koo, in pain, distress, or even dying, you might be wondering if Beast of Reincarnation is for you.  Well, if you’re here to find out if you’re setting yourself up for heartbreak if you buy the game, scroll on.…

True fact time: Game Freak, the developer best (mostly? only?) known for churning out Pokémon RPGs, also makes other games. One of those games, Beast of Reincarnation, actually comes out this week. And according to critics, it’s…fine. It’s fine! Beast of Reincarnation, which will be released Aug. 4 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X, is a Souls-inspired action game set in an apocalyptic futuristic Japan. Stylistically, it’s about as far away from Pokémon RPG as you can get (though you still get an animal friend in the form of a trusty dog companion named Ku). As of…

Catherine celebrated its 15-year anniversary on July 26, 2026. Below, we examine how this game was an early, if awkward, pioneer in trans representation in video games. When Catherine released in 2011 it was a step outside of the box for developer Atlus. The RPG powerhouse team wasn’t as popular as it is today, and while it had built up a solid reputation from developing the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series, Atlus had yet to quite break through into mainstream gaming. When the team decided to develop Catherine, it did so with the mindset of exploring more adult themes…

On June 11, Netflix released FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition exclusively through its streaming games platform for subscribers. Critics didn’t like it much, but according to Netflix, it was one of the company’s most successful cloud game launches. Now, about two months later, the studio behind FIFA World Cup is reportedly shutting down, and everyone is out of a job. As reported by Game Developer, over the weekend, a number of employees at Refractor Studios announced on LinkedIn that they had been laid off from the studio shortly after shipping FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition. Some claim that the entire…

Divinity is the next game coming from Larian Studios, the team behind the award-winning, genre-defining Baldur’s Gate 3, and confusingly, it’ll actually be the seventh game in the Divinity series. Divinity was revealed during The Game Awards 2025 after a mysterious tease with a statue (that we now know to be the hellstone) in the Mojave Desert, but all we’ve seen so far is a three-minute-long cinematic trailer. However, seven months after that trailer, content creator WolfheartFPS claims to have decoded a message that was hidden in plain sight during the reveal. The trailer opens with an old man chained…

World of Warcraft is getting the Dungeons & Dragons treatment, with the iconic tabletop roleplaying game set to translate developer Blizzard’s popular MMORPG into a proper pencil-and paper-experience this November.  D&D: World of Warcraft is bringing a lot to the table, with everything a dungeon master might potentially need to create an Azeroth campaign. For starters, all 13 WoW classes will be playable, with six additional subclasses, three modified ones, and over 40 class specializations to choose from. The expansion additionally adds 11 WoW races (or species, as they are called in D&D), including tauren, draenei, forsaken, and trolls, along…