In the music industry, a band often uses a self-titled album years into its career to denote a reinvention. “This is who we are now” is the intended and unspoken message. PlayStation’s Astro Bot uses the same naming convention to signal a similarly fresh start. Following a 2018 VR exclusive …

When Lego Horizon Adventures launches on PS5, Switch, and PC this holiday season, a familiar character will be portrayed by a new voice. Sylens, a mysterious figure for most of Horizon Zero Dawn’s story, will re-appear in Lego Horizon Adventures, which draws from the 2017 game but does not tell …

The foundational elements of a Lego game have remained largely unchanged for 20+ years: Smash everything into bricks and studs, collect characters by the dozens, then use those characters to jump back into levels to solve puzzles that were previously gated off. Lego Horizon Adventures has a little bit of …

Extraction shooters have taken over battle royale as the PvP genre du jour. Load out, drop in, loot up, and hopefully escape with your life; it’s a fun gameplay loop and has already been done in a number of different frameworks, from hardcore settings like Escape From Tarkov to the …

The cover star of an annual sports game series is probably less of a big deal in a world where digital sales dominate, and the game tile on your console will change several times per year to reflect in-game seasons of content, but it’s still an exclusive club to grace …

I hate small talk. I don’t feel I’m any good at it. I don’t want to engage in it. I practically run from it if I see it coming. But I love talking about big ideas, especially philosophy. Quite obviously, that makes me annoying. I admit it. People minding their …

When Sea of Thieves Season 13 launches on July 25, it’ll come with a new world event that will let players sail the lore’s most villainous and powerful galleon, Flameheart’s Burning Blade. With it, players will be able to instill fear in anyone they come across at sea, as the …

It’s been years since State of Decay 3 was first revealed, and since then we’ve seen nothing about it–like, at all. But from the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, we finally got another look, including glimpses of what appears to be gameplay for the first time. The trailer emphasized the four-player …

It was a year ago at Summer Game Fest 2023 that we saw our first extended look at Alan Wake 2, and now, Remedy is back on Geoff Keighley’s stage to give a first look at Night Springs, the first of two Alan Wake 2 expansions set for 2024. In …

“If you thought we were meta before, wait until you see this,” Remedy’s Thomas Puha told me at the start of a recent Alan Wake 2 DLC preview. The first expansion for one of 2023’s best games is on the way, with the Alan Wake 2 Night Springs DLC launching …