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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — hands-on report

For the first time ever, Call of Duty fans are getting back-to-back Black Ops games with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year. Leaping ahead to the future of 2035, the game is a direct sequel to the story told in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 — but what’s really interesting is the way it builds on the foundation set by Black Ops 6, with its introduction of systems like Omnimovement and the return of round-based Zombies.


At Call of Duty: Next, I got a chance to jump into the combat b...
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Battlefield 6 hands-on with Operation Firestorm, Mirak Valley

The thing that makes Battlefield feel like Battlefield is the enormous scope of its maps and the many ways you’ll fight your way across them. After Battlefield 6’s open beta test, I got another hands-on chance to play the game—this time, on two of its biggest maps and with the game’s full slate of vehicles strafing through combat.


While my first hands-on experience with Battlefield 6 gave a sense of weapons, the return of character classes, and the variety in map design, this look focused com...
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Hollow Knight: Silksong — 8 ways it evolves the side-scrolling formula

It’s been a really long wait, but Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sequel to the beloved side-scrolling search-action game Hollow Knight is finally here. The game introduces a whole lot of changes and additions to what made Hollow Knight great, expanding on both the formula of a classic and some key elements of the side-scrolling exploration-action genre in general.


Here’s a semi-spoilery look at what I’ve seen in Pharloom so far — we won’t talk about the story or any major developments...
GameSpot •

"The Humanity Is In The Writing," Destiny 2 Lodi Actor Says

Note: This post includes story spoilers for Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate. We recommend you finish the campaign before reading this article.Destiny 2 often uses expansions to introduce new characters and build out their stories. With The Edge of Fate, the first chapter of the new story arc Bungie calls the Fate Saga, the developer introduced a very new, very different kind of character, named Lodi. Your main point of contact in the expansion's destination, Kepler, Lodi has a deep, strange backstor...
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The End Of Destiny 2's Fate Saga Is Already Known--And No, Lodi Didn't Kill JFK

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Destiny 2's latest expansion, The Edge of Fate. We recommend you complete its story campaign before reading further.Destiny 2's 2024 expansion, The Final Shape, was the conclusion of stories the game and its predecessor had been telling for 10 years--which means that its newest chapter, The Edge of Fate, is setting out on a new course. That puts The Edge of Fate in uncharted waters (or maybe uncharted space) as it lays the groundwork for a new story, a...
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Skate: hands-on report

Fifteen years since its last release, the Skate series returns with an entry that turns a whole city into a skater’s paradise. The newest Skate is a free-to-play open world where you can take on a series of challenges, spectate other skaters, team up with friends, or challenge other players to throw down and trade tricks.


Electronic Arts pulled the curtain back on Skate with a hands-on preview of Early Access ahead of its September 16 release. I shredded and slammed across the city of San Van...
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Hands-on report: Resident Evil Requiem, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Pragmata

Capcom is storming Gamescom 2025 with three huge games set to release in 2026: Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. I got a chance to go hands-on with all three to flee from terrors, hack robotic foes, and slice through demons. Let’s dive in.


With the ninth mainline Resident Evil game, on February 27, Capcom is set to return to where it all began: Raccoon City. Capcom’s announcement trailer focuses on FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft, and I played the demo from Resident...
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15 must-play indies to mark 15 years of  PlayStation Plus

For the past 15 years, PlayStation Plus has served as a welcoming home for indie games, connecting players with some of the most innovative, heartfelt, and personal experiences the world of video games has to offer. The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog (included with PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium memberships) puts a huge library of indie games right at your fingertips—but with so many games available, it’s possible for even some of the best to escape your notice. 


As we’ve entered the 15th...
IGN •

The Forgotten Resident Evil Game That Holds the Secret to Resident Evil: Requiem - IGN

Long before Resident Evil: Requiem, survivors in Raccoon City were trying to escape in Resident Evil Outbreak, a game that could hold a secret to where the ninth Resident Evil game is going. So, who is Alyssa Ashcroft, and how is her daughter, FBI Analyst Grace Ashcroft, connected to a now destroyed Umbrella Corporation and Raccoon City? Will Leon Scott Kennedy appear in RE9, especially if we're returning to the RPD? Let's delve into this upcoming world of survival horror.

Long before Resident...
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The Forgotten Resident Evil Game That Holds the Secret to Resident Evil: Requiem - IGN

With the announcement trailer of Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom has provided some of the first hints about the story being told in the ninth mainline entry in the Resident Evil series. The trailer didn't include any of the series' familiar faces, but it did suggest that Requiem has ties with a lesser-known Resident Evil game from way back in the PlayStation 2 era: Resident Evil Outbreak.

Outbreak was released in 2003, between Resident Evil 3 in 1999 and the franchise's semi-reboot with Resident...
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18 Games Like Blue Prince That Will Become Your Next Obsession

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Not since the release of Myst way back in 1993 has a game felt as consequential to the puzzle genre as Blue Prince. And while it's tough to compare the two--Myst's enormous impact turned it into a monument of what PC gaming could be to the burgeoning market of personal computers--Blue Prince does feel like a watershed moment in a similar vein. It's a...
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Chrono Trigger's Story Is Simpler Than You Remember, But That's What Makes It Great

Chrono Trigger celebrated its 30-year anniversary this week, on March 11, 2025. Below, we look back at how it continues to endure and what continues to make it a powerful, relevant classic.After 30 years, I still often find myself thinking about Fiona's Forest in Chrono Trigger, and one of the scenes that captures what makes the game so enduring for me.It's a late-game moment after you complete one of Chrono Trigger's few but meaningful side quests. In it, you meet a woman named Fiona, who has d...
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24 Best First-Person Shooters You Can't Miss In 2025

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For years, first-person shooters have pushed the envelope of how video games can create exciting, intense experiences for players. The idea of taking part in your own ridiculous action movie helped make video games an industry worth hundreds of billions, and as the FPS genre has evolved over the years, it's given rise to some truly standout games. Fr...
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10 Years Later, Alien: Isolation Still Benefits From One Vital Design Decision

Even a decade after its release, Alien: Isolation remains a standout experience.It's a monumental example of adaptation in video games, thanks to the fact that developer Creative Assembly was packed with fans of Ridley Scott's 1979 film, Alien, and an incredibly tight, detailed focus on the fidelity of the movie's setting. It also set a bar in horror game design, with the alien operating on a set of reactive artificial intelligence rules that made it terrifyingly unpredictable and unstoppably le...
Epic Games •

InFlux Redux is a marble puzzler remaster 11 years in the making

Physics puzzle game InFlux was first released 11 years ago, and since then, it's been remastered three separate times. It's just that not one of those remasters has ever been released.

That's about to change with InFlux Redux, which developer Joe Wintergreen calls "a remaster of a remaster of a remaster." It takes InFlux from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 5 and adds all-new assets, lighting, and physics code—a complete overhaul of original that released in 2013.

InFlux, the work of Wintergr...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Secrets: 20 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

Silent Hill 2 Remake faithfully includes a huge amount of material from the 2001 original, from dialogue to notes you can find scattered throughout the game, and also adds a whole lot of interesting additions. Some of those additions seem to suggest that the remake is more than a remake, and is actually something of a sequel to Silent Hill 2. Others appear to expand on the original story and provide additional elements of symbolism and strangeness informing what's happening to protagonist James Sunderland.
Epic Games •

In No More Room in Hell 2, other people are your best chance of survival

Facing down my first zombie in the first-person survival game No More Room in Hell 2 gave me a powerfully unsettling feeling. As I approached an abandoned ambulance with its headlights still cutting into the darkness, an undead woman standing nearby turned toward me. She began stumbling my way, moaning in what sounded like pain and distress. When I swung my lead pipe to knock her away from me, she screamed in what sounded vaguely like pain and bewilderment.

The zombie apocalypse is a well-worn...
GameSpot •

Stalker 2 Is A Frightening But Strangely Alluring Return To The Zone

I died a lot playing Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.Like the 2008 original, developer GSC Game World's long-awaited sequel is a punishing affair, because life is difficult and fleeting in the Zone--the irradiated area around Chornobyl filled with deadly, physics-defying anomalies, mutants, and various people who will kill you for just about any reason. If you fail to keep your wits about you in the Zone, your time there will end quickly, making exploring Stalker 2's open world both fascinating an...
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Is A Frightening But Alluring Return To The Zone | Hands On Preview

Weird anomalies, spooky mutants, and humans likely to gun you down repeatedly await in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, and it all works to make the Zone an oppressive but fascinating place.

CORRECTION: The early-access period starts is October 22nd, not Oct 21st.

Like the 2008 original, developer GSC Game World's long-awaited sequel is a punishing affair, because life is difficult and fleeting in the Zone--the irradiated area around Chornobyl filled with deadly, physics-defying anomalies, mutan...
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How Amazon's Secret Level Distills Your Favorite Games Into Short TV Show Episodes

New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games' MMO, is set during the Age of Exploration, on an island where no one can die--but immortality isn't always a gift. For some, living forever leads to madness, while others lose their souls. Some corpses are long since hollowed out but live on, unable to find peace.That idea gets pretty dark pretty fast, but in the episode of animated anthology series Secret Level that's based on New World, the focus is on a slightly different take on the material."[New World: Ae...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Answers A Decades-Old Question: Which Ending Is Canon?

Note: This article contains spoilers for the story of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 2 Remake. Read on at your own risk.Silent Hill 2 players have been speculating about what's really going on in the game since its release in 2001. Even on its most surface level, it's impossible to say definitively what's happening to protagonist James Sunderland. Is he trapped in a hallucinatory nightmare of grief and guilt? Has he wandered into some kind of supernatural space situated around a small American to...
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10 Years Later, I Think I Finally Understand Alien: Isolation Hate--But It's Still A Masterpiece

Alien: Isolation celebrated its 10-year anniversary on October 6, 2024. Below, we reexamine how the despite its great ideas, the game may not have communicated its expectations clearly enough. This piece was written before the announcement of a sequel, with the original director returning.It's been a decade and I'm still mad about Alien: Isolation.I'm mad that one of the best horror games that exists, if not one of the finest video games ever, has been met with relative obscurity rather than acc...
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