As the least strategic gamer alive, I’ve never been a fan of real-time strategy games. No matter how much I tried with iconic classics likeCommand and ConquerandStarcraft, I could never get into all of the micromanagement, on-the-fly tactics, and mechanical depth the genre requires. Even IP havens likeHalo WarsandDune: Spice Warsweren’t enough to stop my brain from becoming a cymbal-smashing monkey whenever I desperately tried to learn their mechanics and see what all the fuss was about....

Summary Now thatHades 2is finally within reach, it’s on the front of every gamer’s minds. We’ve known that the sequel was in the works since it was announced back in 2022 atThe Game Awards, and we also knew that it would be releasing in Early Access some time this year. But nobody was expecting that developerSupergiant Gameswould be announcing a technical test for a small number of players or that there would bea gameplay stream showing off new weapons, boons, characters, and more....

Summary Last year, CBS Studios announced that it wasworking on an animated Among Us TV series, bringing the viral pandemic-era game to the small screen. At Summer Game Fest, we got our very first look at the crewmates in action. Among Ushas an all-star cast comprising of Patton Oswalt, Dan Stevens, Elijah Wood, Liv Hewson, Randall Park, Yvette Nicole Brown, Ashley Johnson, Debra Wilson, Kimiko Glenn, Phil Lamarr, and Wayne Knight....

Summary Sinceits initial reveal at a PlayStation Showcase all the way back in 2021, not much else is known about Insomniac’s upcomingWolverinevideo game. Beyond starring the iconic X-Men character and being exclusive to thePlayStation 5, details have been scarce. That said,because of the massive Insomniac database breach that occurred late last year, more and more information about Wolverine has started to trickle out. Over the past several months, Insomniac’s next titlehas had its plot, characters and voice actors leak....

Summary Manor Lordsis an incredible strategy and city-building, simulation game set in the medieval age. This game is very complex and takes a lot of inspiration from older medieval, strategy-based games such asFarthest Frontier. Both these games are very different from each other, but they are still compared a lot online due to their similar nature. This article will compare both these games in-depth and determine which is the better one based on several categories such as their graphics, gameplay, performance, and much more....

Summary While dogs are man’s best friend, cats are the gamer’s best friend, sitting on our laps as we sit in front of our computers and consoles for hours on end. As such, it is no surprise that we have more and more games with our furry friends as protagonists, jumping, clawing, and meowing to victory. The two most well known titles with a cat on the cover areStrayand Little Kitty, Big City, but which one has the best feline representation?...

Summary Mattel will have a big presence at San Diego Comic-Con this July, and today has revealed some of the toys that will be released during the comic book scene’s biggest weekend of the year. Today’s reveals include a new set of Deadpool-themed UNO cards, the revival of its Marvel Secret Wars Hot Wheels team-up to celebrate the story arc’s 40th anniversary, and best of all, some very special collectibleBatmantoys to mark The Dark Night turning 85....

You’ve got plenty of things to do to keep yourself entertained inMonster Hunter Stories, but if you’ve had enough of fighting random monsters across the world and want to test your Monstie mettle against other, real-life Riders, then the Network Battles option is for you. You’ll be able to engage in local or online battles against friends or strangers, testing yourselves and your Monsties in a battle of strength. You’ll receive a variety of Egg Fragments as a reward, but there’s more to Network Battles than others you’ll fight in Monster Hunter Stories - it’s best to get prepared....

When I visited 11 bit studios in Warsaw, Poland for a double-billed preview event featuring The Alters and Frostpunk 2, I had never played the first game in the post-apocalyptic strategy series. I’d read about it as part of my pre-event due diligence, but I’d never bought it, let alone spent time with it. I figured that the high difficulty would put me off, or the depth of its mechanics would frustrate me, or paradoxically, that I’d love the complex gameplay so much that I would lock in and never be able to lock out....

Summary Pokemon’s influx ofFunko Popsso far in 2024 is on a bit of a break at the moment. Aside fromthe C2E2 exclusive Cresselia figurethat will be available at the convention later this month, there’s nothing officially confirmed on the horizon. That gives all you collectors a breather to pick up some of the Pops you might have missed, and right now Pokemon’s one and only Deluxe Funko Pop! Moment is available for less than it ever has been before....

While most video games stick to t-shirts and maybe the odd action figure when it comes to merch,Pokemonis a different breed. It started with a trading card game and 25 years later, you can now get just about anything officially licensed by Pokemon. Despite that, The Pokemon Company continues to come up with new and unique products, the latest of which is a Venasaur statue mid-Solar Beam that you can plug in and use as a light....

Summary Resident Evil 9hasn’t even been revealed yet, but there areplenty of rumours about the sequelto 2021’sResident Evil Village. However, one of the series' best-known leakers has some bad news for us today, as the project has reportedly been internally delayed. According to the leaker known as Dusk Golem, Resident Evil 9 has been pushed back into “late 2025/2026”. This puts it well over a year away from release at best, so we’re unlikely to hear much about the game through official channels anytime soon if this really is the case....

Summary Horroras a genre is associated with running, screaming, and generally high-key emotional experiences. But what about a sense of horror that creeps slowly in? What about a sense of dread that builds up from a hundred small details that don’t quite fit? What about horror that, no matter how intense, doesn’t interfere with the same mundane tasks you know you have to keep performing? In these games, the everyday tasks that come with having a job, having routines, or simply having interests — in other words, being human — are set against the backdrop of horror....