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AI Is Already Generating A Flood Of Indie Game Clones

'You get this anxiety anytime you post anything,' said one dev who claims people used AI tools to quickly copy her in-development game

Elder Scrolls Online Studio Leadership Revealed To Be Part Of The Xbox Cuts, But Say They Have ‘Tremendous Confidence’ In The Game’s Future

Studio head Jo Burba is among the layoffs

PlayStation’s Summer Sale Includes A Ton Of PS5 Games That Cost $15 Or Less

A lot of Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, and Star Wars games are on sale for less than $20

Pokémon’s Big 30th Anniversary TCG Release Is An Even Bigger Mess Than Usual

More Pikachus, more problems

PS6 Could Fix The Launch PS5’s Liquid Metal Cooling Snafu

A new patent suggests a notable revision for next-gen

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender gets an official theatrical release

Paramount and Nickelodeon are bringing Avatar: The Last Airbender to AMC Theatres in addition to streaming on Paramount Plus.

Best base Pals for each job Palworld

Some Pals are just definitively better than other Pals at certain tasks in Palworld. We list out the best base Pals for each job.

Doom meets BioShock and Overwatch in the coolest new shooter in years

Doom: The Dark Ages got what might be its final update, but hell comes in many forms, including an exciting new roguelite FPS with horror to spare.

Magic: The Gathering's best Commander precons of 2026, ranked

Magic's seen a whole bunch of Commander precons this year, but which ones are the best?

The Supergirl movie may be a box office bomb, but her show is a streaming smash hit

My Adventures with Superman is one of the top shows on HBO Max, offering an anime spin on Supergirl

"Never say never": Criterion aren't ruling out a return to Need For Speed, but Battlefield is their only focus for now

Last week, to mark its 30th anniversary, EA rebranded Criterion as Criterion: A Battlefield Studio. The storied studio that created Burnout and in recent years has shepherded the Need For Speed series, as well as working on the rebooted Star Wars: Battlefront, will become just one of the four studios supporting EA's fresh Battlefield push. This isn't the first time Criterion have contributed to Battlefield, the Guildford studio have been involved since 2015's Battlefield 1, but the rebranding marks an end to working on other projects. Or is it? Read more

"We've seen how close you can get": How studio closures pushed Suzerain's maker to create two new DLCs and a turn-based strategy spinoff

"For the longest time, we went one by one," Ata Sergey Nowak, co-founder of Torpor Games, the studio behind strategy game Suzerain, tells me, explaining the four year gap between the game's release and its first DLC. "Our games take a long time, our staff was very limited, and our financing was very project-to-project." So it was a little surprising he was also telling me Torpor are today announcing not one but three new projects - two DLCs and a spin-off. All of which are due to be released before their next flagship title, The Conformist. Each of the three newly announced projects will take you deeper into the world of Suzerain, and let you see its states and people from new perspectives. But, Torpor aren't only making these games to expand Suzerain, they're also using it as a defence against a punishing industry. Read more

As GTA 6's PC portless launch looms, ex-Rockstar producer says prioritising consoles first is primarily about being "better off starting with the constraints"

The wait for GTA 6 on PC lasting past this November's been a foregone conclusion for a while now, but if you're interested in a bit of developer perspective as to why Rockstar opt to do things that way, a former producer at the company's offered some. Essentially, it's a matter of it being less of a headache to scale up after initially getting a game working on hardware with stricter limitations than it would be to strip back an all-singing, all-dancing PC port for consoles. Read more

Dead Space creator Glen Schofield announces he's retiring from "the day-to-day work" of making games while in the vicinity of some chirpy nature

Dead Space creator Glen Schofield has decided it's time to walk away from game development, or at least "the day-to-day work of making them. Thus concludes a career which kicked off all the way back in the early 90s, and saw Schofield work on games ranging from Disney World racing to Call of Duty and The Callisto Protocol. The latter will now go down as the developer's last game, provided he hasn't got any surprise un-retirements up his sleeves. Read more

Denshattack review: one of 2026's best games so far is a racing ruckus of railways, rebellion, and ramen

I fear I’ve authored some kind of Boy Who Cried Wolf situation, vis à vis Denshattack. It’s shown signs of greatness ever since its reveal last year, but in hindsight, I wonder if my enthusiasm for its silly side – it is undeniably a game about trains doing skateboard-style flips and grinds, sometimes while chased by giant baseballs – ever contributed to an impression of it as a mere novelty. A joke game, disinterested in anything beyond breakneck wackiness. I hope not. Because Denshattack is utterly and genuinely brilliant, and not just because it lets you blow up an AI data centre by ploughing a locomotive through it. Read more

"A densely-packed open world game about death anxiety": Bad Magpie's avian mischief channels a lot of heartache

Do they sing the song, where you are from? One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy… I wouldn't put it past magpies themselves to have learned this superstitious ditty. They've got a sharp ear for the human voice, after all, and studies indicate that they can count. Perhaps they're even using the rhyme to mess with us. According to folklore, if you see one magpie, you can trill "Hello Mr Magpie, how is your lady wife" to chase away the prophesied sorrow. Being a creature of perpetual worry, I mutter this Victorian cantrip everytime I spy a pie, skidding over the road with a machine-gun cackle. Then, a second bird materialises from behind a bush, flanking me like one of her velociraptor ancestors, and I feel like I'm being trolled. "I used to do the exact same thing myself," comments Milktooth co-founder and design director Daisy Fernandez, "but it ended up becoming impractical now that I look at a magpie pretty much all day, every day." Read more

Rally Point: I am extremely here for turn-based strategy game The Great Villainess, and not just for gay reasons

LESBIANS BAGPIPES STREAMING LET'S GO! Read more

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for waking up before the sun and getting a bike ride in before the tarmac gets hot enough to cook an egg. Any sensible person would skip the bike ride altogether, but I, a nonsensical person, have agreed to a ride across the country at the end of the month and I'm currently not able to manage 40 miles a day, let alone a hundred. So, I have to get them gains. Still, should I get back home unsizzled by this heatwave sun, I can celebrate with a tarmac-fried egg and lazy perusal of some of this week's best gaming (and non-gaming) reads. Read more

What are we all playing this weekend?

Another horrendously hot Saturday, another wedding to go to. I am all in favour of love, but could we please reschedule it to a cooler day in the year? Mercifully this one's a London wedding and it can be reached and returned from on the tube. Though travelling on a hot carriage and not arriving looking like a boiled saveloy pressed into a too-small suit will be a challenge. Read more

What will another Obsidian Fallout game even look like all these years on? Here's my attempt to read the radioactive tea leaves

I know. The right answer to the question in the headline is simple: whatever the developers working on it decide they want it to look like. Even though I’ve told myself that multiple times since last night’s report that the New Vegas studio have been redirected to the wasteland amid the horrible circumstances of Microsoft’s latest layoffs, I still think it’s something that’s worth any fan of Obsidian’s work pondering for themselves. Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Is A Bittersweet Reminder Of How Simple Things Used To Be

Are Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 worth buying on PS5? Let's find out.

Everything I Want To See From Kingdom Hearts 4 At D23

Disney has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts will have a serious presence at DS3 this August.

Miresi: Invisible Future Wants To Build A Bright Future For Gacha Games

You'll want to put in the time to collect every character in this enticing gacha title.

Ninjala 2: The Uncharted Planet Brings A PVE Co-Op Focus To Proceedings

Jump into a new PVE open-world adventure in Ninjala 2.

The High Definition Era Ruined Video Games Forever

When video games and television embraced HD, everything started to get way more complicated.

Feature: "Piracy Did Help The PlayStation Market" - How Bootlegs Allowed PlayStation To Take Over South Africa

"These discs were not burned with a CD writer, these discs were pressed in a factory". This is the second in a two-part deep dive into the history of video games in South Africa. You can read part one here. In 1995, my family emigrated to the UK, which is why I'll be sharing the recollections of my friend and local expert, Paul Loubser, to describe the years after. The previous chronology of events was fairly simple (no John, it really was not - Damo), but it was just a few perspectives from a larger patchwork of regional variation. It's important to cross-reference sources such as Joshua Rogers' research on the NES, with websites such as Sega Retro, in addition to local experts who lived this world, plus local magazines once they arrived. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Feature: I Turned My GBA Into A Switch To Better Enjoy Its Unsung Japanese Gems

Dock 'n' Go. I have always had a huge fondness for the Game Boy. I can say that it lead to my lifelong love of gaming when I first clapped eyes on my classmate Ben’s brand new DMG-01 in 1990. Battery powered, gaming on the go, interchangeable cartridges... it couldn't get better, could it? Sure, I played my Commodore 64 on my black-and-white telly, but monochrome on the go – that was some hot stuff! My love of the Game Boy and its successors never dimmed (unlike its screen in the dark) and I bought a Game Boy Advance (GBA) when I was 18 in what was probably the only sensible thing I put on my credit card at the time. Lauded as a portable Super Nintendo, a 2D powerhouse and more, I continued enjoying the GBA long after I upgraded to the DS Lite, thanks to its backwards compatibility. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Feature: I'm Really Not Sure How I Feel About Sony Killing Physical Media

Picking a side is easy, right? As you're no doubt aware, Sony has caused quite a kerfuffle with the announcement that it is ending the production of physical media for its PlayStation 5 console in 2028, and intends to make its next machine a totally digital proposition. The fallout of this news has been dramatic, with petitions appearing online in the vain hope of convincing Sony to change course – but sadly, the chances of that are almost non-existent, as the world of video gaming is now dominated by digital distribution. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Hands On: This Power Bank Has Become A Daily Driver For My Switch, AYANEO And Steam Deck

The INIU P63 offers a massive 25,000mAh capacity. While handheld gaming has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, with devices like Switch 2, Steam Deck and AYANEO 3 offering AAA performance in the palm of your hand, there's been one big limiting factor across all of these products: battery life. It shouldn't come as a massive shock that these powerful portables require a lot of juice to keep running, and that manifests itself in stamina that's almost always measured in single-digit hours (heck, when I push my AYANEO 3 to its limits, I get less than a hour of use out of a single charge – a far cry from the 30+ hours my humble Game Boy would last all those years ago). Read the full article on timeextension.com

Retro Recap: All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 12th 2026)

Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure! Evercade price hike! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Final Fantasy XIII’s Anarchist Dream

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While the party doesn’t find a cure or stymie for their divine curse, they do find and reaffirm the need for solidarity. The post Final Fantasy XIII’s Anarchist Dream appeared first on Unwinnable.

PAX East 2026, Part II

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PAX East may be shrinking by the year but there are still plenty of booth corners and single demo stations holding gold. The post PAX East 2026, Part II appeared first on Unwinnable.

Where Empires Meet

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With each weather-beaten storefront, sun bleached church and crumbling hacienda, you’ll find a silent story about the people behind the narrative, and the environments that shaped their lifestyle. The post Where Empires Meet appeared first on Unwinnable.

BioWare’s Homosexual Progress

Gamers, it’s time to face the facts: one day, everyone you know and love is

How Women Saved Rune Factory

Farming, fantasy, and finding romance are at the heart of Rune Factory, a farming simulation

Slay the Princess and the Multiversal Language of Love

“You’re on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is

The Digital Closet: How We Hacked Our Own Pride

Imagine you just bought a brand-new book. You’re excited to dive in, but as you

Why Wouldn’t Dynasty Warriors Origins be Gay?