For years, the Lego franchise has dominated a specific space for licensed action-platformers, taking the essence of properties ranging from Star Wars to Harry Potter and transposing them into a goofy video game setting. What makes the Lego games fun, apart from their players’ affinity for colorful blocks, is the …

Towerborne is a pretty drastic departure from the Banner Saga series, developer Stoic Studio’s impressive set of story-driven strategy games. But even with just a short look at it, it’s easy to see some of the familiar Stoic DNA in Towerborne. It carries a beautiful art style that recalls a …

A giant beetle charged toward me, and as it stepped into a big puddle in the center of the room, I snagged it with a burst of magical vines that appeared beneath its feet. Then I blasted the creature with one of my dual flintlock pistols–this one charged with electricity–which …

Grand strategy games are a bit too big to demo. Building from a single settlement and a couple of farms into a vast nation is a time-consuming process, and even playing tens of early game turns can only show you so much. Even with that being the case, though, a …

There’s something specific about Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien that makes it such an enduring classic. With the combination of its heavy focus on relatable, blue-collar characters, its dingy, lived-in capitalist version of space travel, and its stalking, unknowably malevolent creature, it creates a feeling that other horror movies have …

Netflix is continuing to willfully miss the point of its hit series Squid Game, turning a show about living in an unfeeling capitalist utopia into a funny game about completing obstacle courses. Squid Game Unleashed got a new trailer during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live that makes the horrific and lethal …

Techland revealed Dying Light: The Beast, the latest addition to the open-world zombie series, with a new trailer that teases the return of the original game’s protagonist, Kyle Crane, as its playable character. The announcement came with a trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live. The trailer is light on details, …

Warning: This article contains some light spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Alien: Romulus starts with something of a goofy premise. For 20 years after the events of the original Alien, apparently, the xenomorph-obsessed Weyland-Yutani Corporation has been searching for the Nostromo and the monster its crew brought aboard. When they finally …

It’s still a Halo-style arena shooter with portals, but what has surprised me most about Splitgate 2 is how much more there is to go with that idea. With its new iteration of the game, developer 1047 Games has dialed in elements that help build out the game’s identity, complementing …

The inventory of Destiny 2‘s weirdest shopkeep, the squid-faced weekend vendor Xur, is about to change once again. Starting with an August 20 update, Xur’s Exotics-focused inventory will also include the new Exotic class item available in The Final Shape expansion, which means it’ll now be a little easier to …