Games

Dungeon Brawls launched on Steam on September 10, bringing four-player online co-op to an action roguelike built around fighting waves of enemies. The game is developed by Underground Cat and published by Wise Games. Players can fight alone or form a group, combining character abilities to create a team that can handle changing encounters. The...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus wrote the novel Whalefall, and its movie adaptation arrives next month. On Thursday, 20th Century Studios released a new trailer for the whale horror movie. Whalefall follows diver Jay Gardiner, played by Austin Abrams, who gets swallowed by a giant sperm whale. With only an hour of oxygen left, Jay...

Following its version 1.0 release, Valheim attracted over 160,000 simultaneous players and received an average score of 89% on Metacritic, ranking among the top-rated major releases of 2026. Iron Gate’s game spent more than five years in early access after launching in February 2021, when its peak concurrent player count on Steam exceeded 500,000 people....

Netflix has built a solid reputation for horror limited series. Projects range from creepy new homes and sleepy island communities to more complex supernatural narratives. The Watcher turned an idyllic property into a nightmare, while Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass blended supernatural scares with family drama. Now, Netflix is heading...

Amazon announced last week that it would not pick up its acclaimed TV series Spider-Noir for a second season on Prime Video. A few days later, the Marvel spin-off won five Emmy awards. This gives the show the most wins ever earned by a series canceled after a single season. All eight episodes were released...

The concept of Starfield was too ambitious for Bethesda Game Studios. A former Bethesda Game Studios designer recently shared memories of working on Starfield in an interview, stating that the action role-playing game turned out too massive and ambitious for the studio. Speaking with FRVR, Kurt Kuhlmann explained that Starfield is the first game developed...

Brad Caleb Kane has the hardest job on television this fall: turning Friday the 13th, a franchise built for decades on Jason Voorhees’ violent rampages, into a sustainable series for A24 and Peacock. When I point out that it feels like a near-impossible challenge, he does not miss a beat. I’m here for it. I’m...

Greetings, Battlefield Community, We are thrilled to announce a major breakthrough in our ongoing mission to preserve a fair and level playing field, specifically targeting the developers of unauthorized hardware modifications. Recently, Electronic Arts formally addressed Collective Minds—the creators behind hardware devices like the Cronus Zen and Strike Pack—concerning external tools that facilitate unfair advantages...

Early in September, an unintended Steam data leak exposed achievements for several highly anticipated upcoming projects, inadvertently spilling major plot details for titles like Kingdom Hearts 4, Persona 6, and Judas. Beyond these heavy hitters, the database also pointed to unrevealed endeavors—including a fresh Avengers title, a Stellaris spin-off or expansion, a Shrek 2 remaster,...

While Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve won’t hit shelves until October 2, Bandai Namco is already looking far ahead. During a recent discussion with Polygon, franchise brand director Kazutoki Kono opened up about the series’ long-term trajectory, dropping hints regarding potential narrative expansions and even the groundwork for Ace Combat 9. These revelations coincided...