Peter Friedlander has requested that the scripts for the upcoming TV series be rewritten to appeal to 'non-gamers,' which has upset some Mass Effect fans. However, production for the series is reportedly 'on the verge' of starting.
Petit Planet is the studio's take on Animal Crossing, though with a few interesting ideas of its own. The game's most recent test took place all the way back in November, but its next big test isn't far off.
Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.
Interplanetary exploration is what Free Lanes is all about. The idea is to add more reasons for players to travel through space instead of just fast-traveling. Bethesda is even adding a cruise control-like mode that will let players step away from the helm while their ship flies to a specific location. During these crises, you can be interrupted by random events.
The last five years have seen a tremendous resurgence of role-playing games, from the turn-based masterpieces of Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to the action-packed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. And staggeringly, it looks like that trend is set to continue well into 2026. While there's undoubtedly a handful of games we don't know about, even what we do have looks like it's going to make this another banner year for RPGs.
March has arrived, spring is almost here, and we're officially in peak release season for the first half of 2026. Indie games like Scott Pilgrim EX and Planet of Lana 2 arrive alongside first-party console releases like and Pokémon Pokopia. It would have been great if these games had all been slightly delayed so I could just spend all of my time getting lost in Slay the Spire 2 instead.
February has already seen the arrival of a preview build of RTS Menace and the arrival of Diablo II: Resurrected and High on Life 2 to Game Pass, which is hard to sniff at (until you remember that Microsoft increased the price of the subscription from $20 to $30 a month last year). But the second half of the month is much more busy, starting today with the addition of Aerial_Knight's DropShot, and Ubisoft's surprisingly great Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
More specifically, you play as members of the Polloi, a desert-spanning society that worships a crustacean deity and rides through the sands on gargantuan crabs known as Dune Crawlers that are festooned with cannons. As the game starts, you free one of these Dune Crawlers from a group of technologically advanced invaders from the north and set out to stop the assault.
The best new co-op games are those that do something a bit different, offering more than a single-player experience with another player thoughtlessly tacked on. These multiplayer games account for groups of friends all wanting their own role, with a shared goal in sight and plenty of chaos on the path to getting there.
Star Wars: Genesis was created by a modder who goes by DeityVengy, and it's available for free on Nexus Mods. The mod features an original story that's set between the prequel and original Star Wars trilogies. There is an update coming before the end of January that adds even more content to the mod, and DeityVengy showed off some of those new features in the video below.
Created by Swedish developer Embark Studios, Arc Raiders is an extraction shooter: an online multiplayer game that drops you into a world with other people to search for valuable weapons and items before attempting to escape with all your spoils. You can play alone or with up to two friends in a squad. Most extraction shooters feature two types of gameplay: Player vs Environment (PvE), which means exploring the world and fighting computer controlled enemies,
It's Christmas of 1994, and I am 16 years old. Sitting on the table in our family room next to a pile of cow-spotted boxes is the most incredible thing in the world: a brand-new Gateway 66MHz Pentium tower, with a 540MB hard disk drive, 8MB of RAM, and, most importantly, a CD-ROM drive. I am agog, practically trembling with barely suppressed joy, my bored Gen-X teenager mask threatening to slip and let actual feelings out.
At the end of Darrah's video, he starts to give a soft pitch for how could live on and maybe even see a bit of that fabled No Man's Sky redemption arc that BioWare was hoping for when it announced it was revamping the game in 2019. He says that his idea would "conservatively" run EA about $10 million, and if that should sell more than 400,000 copies, it could actually work out for everyone involved.
