After a somewhat tepid launch three years ago, every game pack, update, and expansion released for The Sims 4 has had to find some way to make the barren base game feel as expansive as the many, many Sims games that came befo...   read

If you’ve been on the fence about picking up a VR headset and also happen to be a giant Trekkie, HTC has some good news from you. Going forward, HTC says that every Vive headset it sells will come bundled with a copy of...   read

Two new hero classes are entering the fray next month, as Ubisoft’s historical hack-and-slash fighter For Honor kicks off its second season. The samurai assassin Shinobi and knight hybrid Centurion both join the fight a...   read

I’ve been jokingly crediting the original Digimon World as my all-time favorite game for years, all the while secretly hoping that someone would agree with me and reminisce. There was something uniquely charming about t...   read

Years before I talked my dad into letting me play his copy of Grand Theft Auto III, I remember first being introduced to video games through adventure games. The stuff I played back then was just simple Sierra Entertainm...   read

  Watch Video A good Digimon game needs to have just the right mix of cringeworthy cheese and skill-based combat, and it looks like Digimon World: Next Order is right on track. The story trailer released today runs down the plot for t...   read

A series of five prints based on Blizzard’s team-based competitive shooter Overwatch are up for sale on Hero Complex Galaxy, four of which are reproductions of different movie posters you might've seen scattered th...   read

  Watch Video The description of Streets of Rogue reads like a video game buzzword checklist. Despite this, the RPG stealth co-op roguelike released into open alpha today actually looks like a game that might be able to do all of those gen...   read

Yet another amazing video game soundtrack is releasing on vinyl. Black Sheet Records, the company responsible for pressing both the Downwell and Velocity soundtracks earlier this year, is producing a pair of gold and yellow v...   read

  Watch Video Ubisoft has released a 19-minute-long guided gameplay video showcasing the open world exploration players can expect to find in Watch Dogs 2. The video runs through the different hacking tools Marcus has at his disposal and b...   read

The new looks announced today for classic Pokémon are objectively the best thing we've found out about Pokémon Sun and Moon to date. In case you missed it, certain first-generation Pokémon are returning t...   read

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has quietly put an end to fan-made Pokémon tracking tools. One of the more popular apps, Pokévision, displayed wild Pokémon locations on a map in real time, b...   read

  Watch Video This latest trailer introduces Team Official Invitation members Sylvie, Kukri, and Mian. These guys are three of the nineteen brand new characters featured in the game's full, 50-fighter roster. Despite abandoning the visual style of past games for 3D graphics, this is shaping up to be a solid entry in the series. King of Fighters XIV releases August 23, 2016 for PS4.    read

  Watch Video I don't know if I like Harvest Moon: Skytree Village, but I certainly don't hate it. At least, not yet. A trailer released for E3 today offers a first look at the world and mechanics of the upcoming 3DS game. A word of a...   read

  Watch Video The last trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare did a lot of new and innovative things for the series, but the more traditional games aren't going to go down without a fight. A new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Wa...   read

  Watch Video [Update: Capcom has confirmed that Resident Evil 7 will be available on PC and Xbox One as well as PS4.] Resident Evil in VR? No thank you. The trailer revealed at Sony's press conference for Resident Evil 7 Biohaza...   read

Looks like I won't be getting rid of my 3DS anytime soon, because if there's one series that'll make me suffer through terrible battery life and tiny screens, it's Harvest Moon. Natsume has announced that the longtime farming...   read

Yeah, I'm not surprised either. You'll have to pick up a couple different mods to get the full experience, but right now it's entirely possible to fill the quiet community of Pelican Town with fully nude bachelorettes co...   read

  Watch Video Though it is most definitely an adventure game driven by narrative, Knee Deep looks more like a stage play than a video game. It tells the story of an actor's suspicious suicide in the quiet Florida town of Cypress Knee, but it does so while pretending it's a live performance complete with rotating set pieces and the occasional soliloquy.   read

  Watch Video Prop hunt is a hide-and-seek style mini-game that first sprung up in Garry's Mod ages ago. Players of one team are disguised as random, inconspicuous objects and have to hide convincingly in plain sight while another player o...   read

  Watch Video I shouldn't like Seven as much as I did. The RPG comes from some of the guys behind The Witcher 3, a game that never really hooked me, and was heavily inspired by Thief, a game I'm terrible at. I don't know how they did it, b...   read

Even before I played it, Just Shapes & Beats had my heart racing. The four-man group ahead of me in line was just moments away from surviving the final level. Everyone was dead, save for one yellow triangle that dashed fr...   read

  Watch Video Bungie wants to be 100% sure you know about all the new stuff coming to Destiny tomorrow. If you somehow still don't know about the April Update despite the original announcement last month, multiple Twitch streams a few week...   read

  Watch Video I have a theory that every single Gears of War trailer was originally set to the song "Mad World." Like it worked so well for the original trailer back in 2006 that Microsoft just decided to use it for every game in the serie...   read

  Watch Video I love it when companies share things like this. Ubisoft shared the infographic above to illustrate how much has happened in the 30-some days since The Division's release. In just once month, players have killed mo...   read

No, this won't let you marry your squadmates, give birth to little baby alien killers, or pet your soldiers. Instead, a new mod adds something far more important into XCOM 2: Friendship. The Squad Cohesion mod uses Fire Emble...   read

  Watch Video It's not just me, right? I don't know what happened, or where in the timeline the latest Sherlock Holmes game takes place, but whatever it is has definitely done some good things for Sherlock's partner in crime. Watson ...   read

Turns out prayer isn't the easiest way to get items in Miitomo Drop. The minigame, stashed in the shop section of Nintendo's recent mobile game Miitomo, offers players a chance at themed items through a pachinko-style ga...   read

The Final Fantasy series said goodbye to two of its own this morning. Service for both console versions of the long-running MMO Final Fantasy XI was officially ended today following nearly a decade and a half of sup...   read

  Watch Video The trailer released to celebrate the launch of Don't Starve: Shipwrecked has basically ensured I'm never playing the game ever again. It looks fantastic; but I just don't know if I'm emotionally ready to let Don't...   read