The developer behind the partially community-funded PC game Alzara: Radiant Echoes has announced it’s shutting down and the game won’t be released after the team raised more than $300,000 to make it. Studio Camelia, which successfully raised €294,428 ($339,000 USD) from more than 5,000 people to fund the game via Kickstarter, made the announcement in […]

Fortnite’s June 18 update was a massive one, introducing two new game modes in Blitz Royale and Lego Fortnite Expeditions, not to mention a new Ballistic map. But the most exciting reveal in this patch may actually be that of the alternate style for the Superman skin included with the Chapter 6 Season 3 battle […]

Doom: The Dark Ages is a great-looking game, leveraging the ray tracing enhancements that the latest iteration of iDTech affords the blood-soaked shooter. But if you’re on PC, then you can unlock the true potential of the engine with the awaited path tracing update, at the expense of a lot of performance. For those unfamiliar, […]

This is possibly the worst time to have some extra cash, because as summer heats up, so too do the game sales. GOG is holding its annual summer sale right now, which means there are thousands of DRM-free PC games for steeply discounted prices until July 9. Like previous years, there’s a fantastic selection of […]

MindsEye just received its second hotfix update, as developer Build a Rocket Boy slowly chips away at fixing the issues with what is currently the worst-reviewed game of the year. When it launched on June 10, it quickly became clear that MindsEye had a myriad of issues. In addition to its dated game design, MindsEye […]

More than anything, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is an odd part of the Switch 2 launch lineup because it’s defined more by what it isn’t than what it is. It isn’t really a video game. It isn’t part of a franchise. And most centrally, it isn’t a free pack-in game. That last one feels […]

Nearly a decade ago, Sega launched Sega Forever, a mobile gaming initiative that led to several ports of classic games from the Genesis era and beyond for iOS and Android. Sega discontinued Sega Forever in 2023, but a handful of titles remained online. Now, some of those games are about to go away, but you […]

The Switch 2 has a built-in limiter for its HD Rumble. Players have reported instances where the Joy-Cons will stop vibrating temporarily following extended use, and it’s unclear yet exactly why this happens. Prolonged phases of vibration-heavy gameplay cause the Joy-Cons to stop rumbling for a period of time. When a threshold of use is […]

Blizzard has lifted the veil on World of Warcraft: The War Within’s next major update, and it’s a surprising sequel to the MMORPG’s first expansion, as players journey to the shattered homeworld of the mysterious Ethereals. Update 11.2, Ghosts of K’aresh, brings to mind the Legion expansion’s Shadows of Argus update, which also took players […]

Today, PlayStation has launched Climate Station, an interactive app for PS5 and PSVR 2 designed to help educate users on the effects of climate change. Using real-world scientific data and produced in collaboration with research and policymaking organizations, Climate Station aims to make knowledge about meteorological systems and human-driven impacts more accessible to wider audiences. […]