The enduring popularity of The Legend of Zelda has led to no shortage of imitators. For those lamenting the lack of a new top-down 2D Zelda from Nintendo, Steam is rife with homages that approximate the feeling of delving into forests, caves, and dungeons armed only with a plucky attitude …

The Triple-I Initiative showcase started with a big sequel for a genre-defining game. Slay the Spire 2 was announced with a cinematic trailer and teased an early access release to begin in 2025. That means we could still have a long wait for the full release. Though the trailer didn’t …

Hearthstone Battlegrounds is preparing to launch its seventh season, and it will bring with it the new co-op mode promised at last year’s BlizzCon. The new Battlegrounds Duos mode will let you team up with a partner to take on three other teams of two. The new mode will launch …

You’ll be able to throw down as Earth’s mightiest heroes, and villains, in a free-to-play team-based competitive shooter coming soon. Marvel Rivals, from developer NetEase, will start rolling out in the form of an alpha test in May, with further tests coming in the lead-up to launch. Marvel Rivals features …

Pepper Grinder is built around having an enormous drill that you can use to burrow through soft ground, but as a new video shows, it gets a lot of mileage out of that central concept. In an exclusive gameplay walkthrough from Devolver, you can see Pepper skimming along the water, …

The Pokemon-like monster-catching RPG Cassette Beasts is getting a set of updates this spring, including the ability to play with friends. As shown during the 2024 Cassette Beasts Showcase, Bytten Studio is planning a multiplayer update to come on May 20, but you can test it out right now. With …

Disney Speedstorm has great kart-racing mechanics, but has been bogged down by an aggressive, confusing progression system. The game has found an audience and continued to release regular seasonal content introducing new iconic Disney characters, but developer Gameloft appears ready to finally fix its overcomplicated upgrade system soon. Currently, there …

Hearthstone is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, March 11, 2024. Below, we look back at how it helped pave the way for the common adoption of loot boxes, and maintained them as the industry came under heavy legal scrutiny. When Hearthstone was announced in 2014, its approach to virtualizing the …

Hearthstone is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, and the weeks-long birthday blowout is well underway. The celebration includes free giveaways of special “gift spell” cards for each class, a new Harth Stonebrew card as a login card that grants iconic hands from Hearthstone history, and an upcoming nostalgia-tinged expansion that …

Final Fantasy XIV is coming to Xbox Series X|S on March 21, following an extended beta period. Square Enix showed off a new trailer for the popular MMORPG on a Xbox Partner Presents stream, including a teaser that Xbox Game Pass owners will get some extra bonus perks. From March …