Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.
In Marathon, if you drop a piece of gear for a teammate and you all extract successfully, you get that gear back. This is intended to make it hard to trade gear with other players permanently, which could likely be used by some to sell rare loot. It also encourages players to share guns with squadmates to ensure everyone gets out alive.
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.
Games did not suddenly become "worse." Games adapted. Attention got tired, schedules got tighter, and competition for free time turned brutal. A ten-minute gap now has to fight against messages, videos, and endless feeds. In that environment, long-form sessions still exist, but short sessions often win because they respect reality instead of demanding a perfect evening. That shift is visible everywhere, from mobile puzzlers to competitive titles and even casino-style experiences where a quick crore win feeling is part of the appeal.
Despite the performance issues, annoying jokes, and bugs, I'm still playing and enjoying Borderlands 4. I'm currently working on my second full playthrough with my wife, who is also a big Borderlands fan, and we're having a great time. Mostly. Everything is going fine right up until we encounter another damn loot capsule.
The new chapter will include not only a game but a novel and music, the company said in a press release. The developer revealed the new IP via a live-action teaser, with an actor reading lines from William Blake's poem, The Sick Rose. A painting then fell from the wall, and the actor then turned over an hourglass with red sand, with a tagline stating "The door won't stay closed."
Nexon, the publisher behind MapleStory and Embark Studios' Arc Raiders , has apologised for what they describe as a "serious breach of trust" and announced that it's offering MapleStory: Idle RPG players full refunds for all in-game purchases made since the game's release. MapleStory: Idle RPG , a free-to-play mobile spin-off of Nexon's chibi-style MMORPG MapleStory , raked in a reported $100 million in in-game purchases within the first 45 days of its release on November 6, 2026.
Posting on social media, McFarlane said he was offering $25 million for New World, and that's a final offer. 'Games should never die,' he added. New World is closing down amid cuts at Amazon Games to its MMO teams. The game is no longer available to buy, but anyone who has it already can keep playing until servers go dark in January 2027.
A thriving fan art community is always a sign of an entrenched playerbase. , Valve's secretive MOBA hero shooter, is currently teeming with creations all over social media that span the big three categories: horny, cute, and funny. In a way, these are perfect descriptors for the overall vibe of the latest six heroes to join the roster, which, alongside a plethora of additions and visual tweaks introduced in last week's big update, have led to a newfound momentum worth paying attention to.
Every moment counts, and every container in the game could end up having that item that makes all the stress of the run worth it. So, it makes sense you may be disappointed to come across a Security Breach locker you can't open.
To increase the size of your inventory, you need to unlock and use the backpack in Hytale. The backpack is a separate item from the default inventory, but its sole goal is to give you more slots to put items. Fortunately, the backpack is unlocked fairly early on in Hytale, as all you have to do is upgrade your workbench to tier two.