Xbox Game Pass Wave 2 Puts Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on Day One
Xbox Game Pass August Wave 2 puts Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on day one, August 27. Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC. I opened Xbox’s August 18 post. That is the official list, not a wishlist screenshot. The game still launches that same day on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. Xbox Play Anywhere...[Read More]
NBA 2K27 Early Access Starts August 26 After 2K’s Game Reveal
2K spent August 18 walking through NBA 2K27, then moved Early Access up. Deluxe and Ultra owners can play at 9:00am PT (12:00pm ET) on August 26, up to nine days before the worldwide launch on September 4. Standard is $69.99. Deluxe is $99.99. Ultra is $149.99. Visual Concepts is on the game. 2K is on the box. The three covers are Victor Wembanyama on Standard, Caitlin Clark on Deluxe, and Derrick...[Read More]
Sony’s CEO Still Will Not Put a Date on the PS6
Hiroki Totoki still will not put a date on PlayStation 6. Sony’s president and CEO said this week that the company has not fixed a launch date for the next console. That is the same answer he gave on Sony’s May results briefing. The next box does not have a year on it because Sony has not written one down. I checked playstation.com and the PlayStation Store. There is no PS6 hardware pa...[Read More]
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Hits Switch 2 on August 28
ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition hits Nintendo Switch 2 on August 28, 2026. I checked Nintendo’s own news post and the US store page. Both say August 28. The store lists it at $79.99. That is the number Nintendo of America put on the product, not a guess from a listing aggregator. Nintendo’s August write-up is the “rise, Tarnished” recap. The store SKU is dated 2026-08-28. If y...[Read More]
Sony Hands S-Game a Whole State of Play, and Phantom Blade Zero Is Not a Souls-like
Sony handed S-Game a whole State of Play on August 17, about twenty minutes, and founder Soulframe Liang used it the way a studio should use a solo show: combat, maps, difficulty, and a hard line on what Phantom Blade Zero is not. North America gets the game on October 28, 2026, on PlayStation 5. The rest of the world follows October 29. S-Game’s own site and Steam page also list PC for that...[Read More]
Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta Closes as Horde Siege Heads to October 6
The Gears of War: E-Day open beta closed today at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET). The Coalition ran two weekends of multiplayer on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Steam. October 6 is still the launch. This was the last public look at Horde Siege and the refined 4v4 Versus before the full game ships. Early Access ran August 6 at 12:00pm PT through August 10 at 10:00am PT for pre-orders and for Game Pass U...[Read More]
Halls of Torment Review
There is a particular kind of greed, rare in a medium that usually hands you a skill tree and a map, in watching a pre-rendered hero spin in place while a thousand undead pay rent on the same pixel. The clock is a dare. The Lord is a calendar appointment. Halls of Torment, the horde-survival roguelite from Stuttgart’s Chasing Carrots, is built on that appointment, and the appointment is deep...[Read More]
SHOCK Review
There is a particular kind of dread, rare in a medium that usually hands you a sprint button and a gun, in watching a wheelchair scrape across wet concrete while something with too many joints listens for the wheels. The elevator is dead. The lights are a rumor. You do not remember the drive in. SHOCK, the third-person psychological horror from Hero’s Punch Productions, is built on that scra...[Read More]
CloverPit Review
There is a particular kind of panic, rare in a medium that usually hands you a health bar and a map, in watching a number on an ATM climb while a slot machine in a rusty cell asks you to pull the lever one more time. The floor is not a metaphor. Miss the deadline and the grating opens. You fall. CloverPit, the rogue-lite slot machine horror from Panik Arcade and Future Friends Games, is built on t...[Read More]
Formula Legends Review
There is a particular kind of joy, rare in a medium that usually hands you a license and a livery pack, in watching a car that is almost a legend take a hairpin that is almost Monaco, while a driver who is almost a hero argues with rain that is entirely real. Formula Legends, the stylized sim-cade racer from Milan’s 3DClouds, is built on that almost. It is not trying to be the official open-...[Read More]
Bloodthief Review
There is a particular kind of hunger, rare in a medium that usually hands you a health bar and a map, in watching a blood gauge tick down while a crypt asks you to go faster. The floor is a suggestion. The wall is a runway. The knight in front of you is not a fight so much as a fuel stop that happens to scream. Bloodthief, the ultra-fast melee dungeon-runner from Blargis, is built on that hunger, ...[Read More]
Mars First Logistics Review
There is a particular kind of pride, rare in a medium that usually hands you a vehicle and a map, in watching a machine you bolted together five minutes ago carry a watering can the size of a bungalow across a ridge that did not exist last contract. The can sloshes. The ridge lies about its slope. The rover, which looked like a triumph in the editor, becomes a suggestion. You flip. You laugh. You ...[Read More]