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It seems like we’re getting one of these every few months, but the world of mobile action RPGs that look like the games that, just a few years back, were only possible on consoles is expanding with another new entry. Netmarble, a studio and publisher known for its free-to-play games on mobile and PC, recently unveiled the launch date for The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, its next major release that’s very much coming for the Genshin Impact crowd. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin is an open-world action RPG based…

Another AA publisher is hanging on for dear life. Amazon continues to flee AAA gaming like it didn’t just make $77 billion in net income last year. And a $20 million fine on Reddit shows why the scourge of online age-verification requirements has become such a messy fight. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. Were you waiting for the right time to check out Ninja Gaiden 4? It was a lot of fun and is about to get new DLC. I’m still trying to read the finely crumbled tea leaves…

Though players are still waiting for the third installment of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, there’s now a new version of the original game they can sink their teeth into. This definitive edition of Final Fantasy 7 has replaced the 2013 release of the game on the Steam store, and so far fans are not very pleased with its quality, citing performance issues and strange visuals. The original version of Final Fantasy 7 was released in 1997, claiming a place in history as one of the most influential RPGs of all time. The game has seen several iterations since.…

Fanatical is back at it again with a new week-long Bundlefest event, where each day brings a new bundle of discounted PC games to check out. The event runs Monday, February 23, through Friday, February 27, and so far, two new bundles have dropped. The event kicked off with a new version of Fanatical’s Killer Bundle–which offers up to 21 items for just $0.96 per key–and today’s deal is the February 2026 edition of the Play On The Go Elite Collection, which lets you pick from up to 18 games for as low as $7 each. You’ll find full details…

In her introduction email to Xbox employees, Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming and former president of Microsoft’s CoreAI, promised a return to Xbox. This, among many other things about the announcement, raised some questions, with perhaps the most relevant being, “What does that even mean?” Windows Central sat down with Sharma and new CCO Matt Booty to ask just that. Instead of clarifying her plans, Sharma offered vaguely positive-sounding platitudes that amounted to little of substance. “For me, the spirit of ‘Return to Xbox’ is about returning to the spirit that the team was founded on,” Sharma…

Last year, Old Oak Games founder Emmet Byrne raised $200,000 on Kickstarter to produce Beyond the Woods, a setting for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition that draws on the folklore of his native country, Ireland, and the fallen world of Elden Ring. The digital version of Beyond the Woods will be released next month, but Byrne has already begun crowdfunding for his next project: translating the setting to Sun of Oak’s narrative tabletop role-playing game Legend in the Mist. “I’ve always been a big fan of Powered by the Apocalypse and Fate, and there’s a lot of the same kind…

What games should you play on Xbox Game Pass?With so many options to choose from, narrowing down the best Xbox Game Pass games currently available can be a challenge. The subscription service has grown in size, offering a massive library of big AAA games, new day-one releases, and even overlooked gems–like one of 2025’s best games, Blue Prince. The library is so expansive that you’re almost guaranteed to find at least a few games you’ll love and classics from yesteryear, thanks to the recent addition of Retro Classics.To help you navigate the ever-shifting landscape, we’ve rounded up the very best…

When big news happens there’s an inevitable rush to put it in context and explain it. One approach is to take the news at face value and begin rationalizing it. Another approach is to assume there’s some hidden logic at work and unearth whatever that is. We’ve seen both of these when it comes to Xbox’s big leadership shakeup and neither offers a completely satisfying answer to the basic question everyone’s been asking themselves a version of since Friday afternoon: what the hell? Phil Spencer is retiring. Sure. Makes sense. He’s been at Microsoft for 38 years. God bless him.…

Amazon’s latest attempt to gain a foothold in games, 2025’s multiplayer co-op game show King of Meat, has failed. Developer Glowmade and publisher Amazon Game Studios confirmed Monday that King of Meat will shut down in April, and that players who purchased the game will receive full refunds. “Despite the creativity and innovation Glowmade brought to King of Meat, the game has unfortunately not found the audience we hoped for,” Amazon Game Studios said in a statement on the King of Meat website. “As a result, we have made the difficult decision to conclude our investment in the game, and…

James Bond has never been shy to get his knuckles bloody, and in IO Interactive’s 007: First Light, the rookie MI6 agent will have the opportunity to get into several scraps. This makes for a big departure from IO’s work on the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy–where combat was always seen as a last resort–as the studio has been inspired by some of the greatest action games of all time for its Bond origin story. Taking a few pages from the Arkham and Uncharted playbook, the studio is aiming to create a combat system that’s fast, furious, and flows into…