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The Best Early Access Games Worth Buying Right Now, Even Though They Aren't Finished
Most Early Access games are a promise. These are the ones that are already a great time, with the roadmap as a bonus on top.
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The Best Games With a One-of-a-Kind Art Style, From Handmade Clay to a Corrupted PS1
Raw fidelity ages fast. A singular art style does not. Here are the games we have reviewed whose look no other game can imitate.
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The Best Cozy Cooking Games to Play Right Now, Ranked by Our Scores
Chopping, frying, and plating your way to a calmer evening. Four cooking games we played and scored ourselves.
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Cropdeck vs Die in the Dungeon: Which Inventive Deckbuilder Should You Play?
One grows tomatoes, one rolls dice in a dungeon. Both reinvent the deckbuilder. Here is how to choose.
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CD Projekt Red Is Remastering The Witcher 3 for Free, and Giving It a Brand-New Expansion in 2027
A full remaster of the 2015 landmark arrives September 29 as a free upgrade, and eleven years on, Geralt is getting a genuinely new expansion.
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Ubisoft Is Rebuilding Heroes of Might and Magic 3 in Full 3D, and Fans Are Already Nervous
The 1999 turn-based classic is being rebuilt from scratch in Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine, and the reveal has split the very fans it is meant to win back.
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The Games That Turn Grief and Loss Into Something You Play, Not Just Watch
The best games about grief do not just tell you a sad story. They hand you the feeling as a mechanic. Here are the ones that pull it off.
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The Best Horror Games to Play Right Now, Sorted by the Kind of Scare You Want
There is no single best horror game, only the right scare for the night you are having. Here are the ones we rate highest, grouped by the fear they deliver.
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Tails of Iron 2 Just Dropped a Full Expansion for Free, and Invited Half of Indie Gaming Along
Blood and Brine is a substantial expansion, it costs nothing, and it dresses your rat knight up as characters from six other indie games.
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Critics Call Gallipoli the Best WW1 Shooter Yet. Steam Players Aren't So Sure
BlackMill's Ottoman-front shooter earned some of the best reviews in the series, so why is the Steam response so mixed? The answer is a familiar one.
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VHOLUME Is the Mirror's Edge Successor Fans Have Waited a Decade For
For ten years, first-person parkour has been a genre with one classic and no heir. A small indie just changed that.
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Mortal Shell II Launched Today, and Critics Are Calling It One of the Best Soulslikes in Years
Cold Symmetry's cult soulslike gets a bigger, faster sequel, and the early verdict is that the studio's biggest gamble paid off.
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Project P.I.T.T., the Rubber-Duck Factory Game That Got 10 Million Views Before Launch, Is a Hit
One French developer, a bottomless corporate pit, and a premise strange enough to conquer YouTube before the game was even out.
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The Best Shooters to Play Right Now, Ranked by Our Scores
First-person or third, solo or co-op, these are the shooters we reviewed and rank highest, for when you just want to point and click.
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The Best Grounded, Realistic RPGs to Play If You Loved Kingdom Come: Deliverance
No chosen ones, no god-slaying, just believable worlds you can lose yourself in, the grounded RPGs we reviewed and rank highest.
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The Best Metroidvanias to Play Right Now, Ranked by Our Scores
Six interconnected worlds full of secrets and locked doors, the metroidvanias we reviewed and rank highest, for your next great adventure.
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Nioh 3's First DLC, Hell Rising, Sends Takechiyo Through Time on August 19
Team Ninja's soulslike gets its first expansion next week, complete with new weapons, an endgame difficulty tier, and a story that jumps eras.
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STALKER 2's First Expansion and a Free 2.0 Overhaul Both Land on August 20
The Zone gets its biggest change yet: a paid story expansion and a sweeping free update arriving together next week.
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Twitch Now Trains Amazon's AI on Your Streams by Default, and Its Own Product Chief Says That Is the Point
Twitch Now Trains Amazon's AI on Your Streams by Default, and Its Own Product Chief Says That Is the Point
A new setting quietly switched on for every streamer, a candid admission from Twitch's leadership, and a two-minute toggle you probably want to find.
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Square Enix Is Already Fixing Final Fantasy 14's Switch 2 Loading Times
The MMO's Switch 2 debut drew complaints about long black loading screens, and Square Enix has already explained the cause and promised an update.
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Assassin's Creed Brings Back Its Valhalla Director to Steer the Whole Brand
Eric Baptizat, the game director behind Valhalla, has rejoined Ubisoft to lead the direction of the entire Assassin's Creed series.
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The Best Cozy Games to Play If You Love Stardew Valley
You have poured a hundred hours into the farm. Here is where that same cozy warmth lives next.
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The Best Games on Nintendo Switch 2 Right Now
The strongest games to load onto a new Switch 2 today, every one of them reviewed by us.
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The Best Strategy Games to Play Right Now
Tactics, city-building, RTS, and deckbuilding: six strategy games we reviewed and rank right now.
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Where to Start with FromSoftware: Elden Ring or Dark Souls III?
The most influential hard games in the medium, and two very different front doors for a newcomer.
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Is Baldur's Gate 3 Still Worth It in 2026?
Years on, Larian's RPG is still the benchmark. Here is whether it is worth your time and money now.
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Five soulslikes we played and reviewed, for the moment the Elden Ring credits roll and nothing else feels the same.
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Silksong vs Hollow Knight: Which Should You Play First?
Two of the finest games their genre has produced, a point apart, and an order that matters more than usual.
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Where to Start with Resident Evil: A Beginner's Guide
A decades-deep horror series that scares off newcomers. Two excellent ways in, both of which we reviewed.
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Six roguelikes we played, reviewed, and genuinely trust, ranked by our own scores and honest about the early-access ones.
ReadHades II vs Hades: Which Supergiant Roguelike Should You Play?
Two of the best roguelikes ever made, scored a point apart from perfect, and a genuine question about where to begin.
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Dispatch Finally Reaches Xbox, and the Year's Best Argument for the Story Game Comes With It
AdHoc Studio's superhero workplace comedy was a 2025 breakout on PlayStation and PC, and its Xbox debut completes the set for the last big platform holdout.
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Xbox Is Bringing 25 Games to gamescom, and This Time You Get to Hold the Controller
Xbox laid out its gamescom 2026 plans on July 28, and the pitch is simple: 25 games, 140 stations, and hands on the ones it has only shown in trailers so far.
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Capcom Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever, and Resident Evil Quietly Passed Final Fantasy on the Way
Capcom's first-quarter numbers landed on July 28 with a record on nearly every line, and buried in them is a milestone the company has chased for years.
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The Best Co-op Games to Play Right Now, Sorted by the Kind of Night You Want
July is quiet on big new releases, so everyone is back on the co-op couch and the co-op Discord. Here is the honest shortlist, drawn from games we have actually reviewed and scored.
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God of War Laufey Has a Date, and Santa Monica Confirmed Kratos Is Coming Back After It
Sony's first mainline God of War without Kratos in the lead now has a release date, and the studio used the same breath to promise Kratos is coming back.
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Splatoon Just Shipped Its First Ever Spinoff, and It Wants You to Play Alone
For a decade Splatoon meant 4v4 online turf war. Its first spinoff, out now on Switch 2, is built around a solo adventure instead, and that is the real story.
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Marvel Handed Its Fighting Game to the Guilty Gear Studio, and This Weekend Anyone Can Try It
The 4v4 Marvel fighter from Arc System Works opened its doors to everyone this weekend, two weeks before launch, and used San Diego Comic-Con to reveal its first post-launch character.
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Avatar Legends Launches Everywhere but Xbox, and Switch Owners Got the Short Version
The Avatar: The Last Airbender fighting game arrived on most platforms on July 23, but Xbox players were told to wait until September just hours before launch, and Switch shipped stripped down.
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Battlefield 6 Finally Takes to the Water, and Wake Island Is Not Coming With It
Season 4 puts the series back on the water with real wave physics, but the map everyone actually showed up for is arriving on its own schedule.
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FromSoftware's Next Game Asks You to Fight Seven Other Players, and Sign-Ups Just Opened
The studio behind Elden Ring and Bloodborne just opened registration for a closed network test of The Duskbloods, an eight-player PvPvE game built for Switch 2.
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Bethesda Finally Shows Its Hand on Fallout: Two Remasters, Fallout 5, and Obsidian Back in the Wasteland
The most notable line in Bethesda's roadmap is not a remaster or a sequel, it is the name Obsidian, the studio that made New Vegas, returning to Fallout.
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Octopath Traveler Comes to Switch 2 at Full Price, and Square Enix Wants You to Buy It Twice
The HD-2D pair are getting a resolution and frame-rate bump on Switch 2, but Square Enix confirmed there is no cheap upgrade and no way to bring your old save along.
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Halo Is Coming to PlayStation for the First Time, and That Sentence Still Looks Strange
After nearly 25 years of Xbox exclusivity, Master Chief boards a PlayStation. The remake itself matters less than the precedent it sets.
ReadThe Best Games of 2026 So Far, According to Our Reviews
Halfway through a year that ends with Grand Theft Auto 6, here are the 2026 games that actually earned their scores from us, ranked by our own verdicts.
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Palworld Hits 1.0: Two Years Later, Pocketpair Ships What Looks Like a Second Game
The survival-craft hit that ate January 2024 is finally out of Early Access, and Pocketpair chose to mark the moment with content instead of a price tag.
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