It’s a weird time to observe games industry trends. Call of Duty is full of AI slop and threadbare updates and costs up to $130, while Clair Obscur, Dispatch and Peak explore a range of price below the standard. But Alex Green’s biggest question is, “Where is all the money going?”
We welcome back Alex Orona and Super GG Radio to run down the best betas and demo of games coming in 2026.
Hollow Knight is a lot of things to a lot of people. To Louise Chase, the once-intimidating game has served as a source of newfound confidence. If she can beat Hollow Knight and its sequel, Silksong, well… what can’t she do?
You might play as a baby in Goodnight Universe, but the game has big shoes to fill. Made by developers who worked on the critically-acclaimed Before Your Eyes, it doesn’t quite reach the same heights as its predecessor. Brandon Craw reviews.
There was very little good in 2025, yet despite it all, Carlo Azzari has found some games that gave him hope for the future of the video game industry.
Deniz Amasya joins us to take moment to reflect on espressos in Cologne, philosophers, and Sega Saturn visual novels.
Are our game collections doomed to disappear along with us when we die? David Cole unpacks the problem of ownership when it comes to digital libraries, as well as what it means to hold a cartridge in your hands in 2025.
Zackary Edwards muses on the cathartic power of “Proof of a Hero” — an iconic theme in Monster Hunter that only rears its head when you face the series’ most formidable foes — in the epic fight against the dragon Fatalis.
OK, OK… Hear us out. Phil Salvador actually has a pretty damn well-reasoned argument for why MindsEye is “The Video Game Of 2025.”
In this Winter Spectacular guest piece, Knoebel is here to sell us on a new sub-genre designation: Controller Passing Co-Op games, or CPCO for short.
We welcome 8-4 Play’s Gabe Deleon to the site to run down their 10 favourite games and hand out some fun made-up awards too!
Which, to be fair… all awards are “made-up.”
Who better to highlight some of the best video game trailers of 2025 and explain what makes them so good than trailer editor extraordinaire, Owen Trett?
Lost In Cult’s Abram Buehner joins us to break down his experience returning to Metroid and learning to experience old things anew instead of attempting to relive previous highs.
So everyone was really angry about the Switch 2 price when it was announced… and then it became the fastest-selling console of all time.
So why did it happen? What did we learn? And comes next? Holly Hughes-Rowlands investigates.
We welcome Erik Campuzano to the site to break down how stepping away from working in video game PR has given him a new perspective on the wider industry.
How do you cope with the onslaught of news in 2025? By becoming a sicko. And Blue Prince is a game made for sickos.
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