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The best games on Xbox Game Pass (February 2026)

Xbox Game Pass is unquestionably worth the subscription fee, but which of the available games are the best use of your hard ...

I’ve fallen for a game about fighting a deadly plague — and it’s the perfect antidote to the industry’s GenAI blight

The outright mechanics of the game are nothing spectacular: you’ll trudge along in first-person, talk to non-player characters (NPCs) via dialogue options, and fight monsters and deadly miasmas with a ...

Resident Evil Requiem's marketing has left me itching to play the game — while no demo is frustrating, here's why I think it may pay off

Resident Evil Requiem can't come out soon enough, and no demo for the first time hurts, but the new trailer tells me the wait will be worth it.
GameSpot

4 Loop Has A Giant Rubik's Cube Boss And Alien Berries That Teleport Enemies

4 Loop, the co-op shooter from Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth and JJ Abrams' studio Bad Robot Games, has a roguelike structure, along with lots of wacky, interlocking systems like alien plant life ...

The best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian

Looking back at Fallout 3 for Game Informer's oral history, designer Emil Pagliarulo pointed out that in Bethesda's first Fallout, "There are no factions. You can't join ...
MP1st

PlayStation Store “Critics’ Choice” Sale Is the First Good Promotion of the Year

While Sony launched the New Year Deals last month, it wasn’t exactly one that was packed to the brim with amazing deals. Well ...

10 Horror Games that are Just Jump Scare Simulators

Sometimes, it's not about atmosphere in a horror game — it's about the perfect time to ambush you with a jump scare.
Yardbarker

When Does Alien Isolation 2 Release?

Alien Isolation 2 made headlines when the sequel was first announced in October 2024. The announcement was part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the first Alien Isolation game, which was ...
Game Rant

Metroid Prime 4 Shows New Gameplay While Promising 120fps on Switch 2

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...
DualShockers

It's The Xenomorph's Fault That Alien Isolation Has Its One Big Flaw, According To The Game's Writer

Covering the video games industry since 2017, with experience in news, articles, lists, and reviews (and I blame The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for that). If you are a fan of RPGs and want a third ...
GamesRadar+

Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most

Horror Games "The horror is almost secondary": From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, here's how horror games keep us scared Survival Horror Games Soma successor Ontos is "like Shadow of the Colossus" ...
Play Station Universe

Alien: Rogue Incursion Part One Evolved Edition Review (PS5) – Hardly A Perfect Organism, But Entertaining All The Same For Aliens Fans

I’m of the firm belief that you can never have enough video games based on the humble ol’ Xenomorph. While it’s true that the batting average for such adaptations has been all over the place, with the ...