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As with every new season ofCall of Duty: Warzone, Season 3 is adding a ton of new content. Players can look forward tonew weapons, the return of Rebirth Island, and much more. However, there’s one interesting part that’s been neglected for quite some time: standard Battle Royale. Players have started to complain, and it’s getting a little frustrating to see such a lack of love given to the BR game mode and Urzikstan map....

Live at their E3 presentation After unleashing a brand new trailer forZelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo paused to talkPokemon Sun&Moon. Speaking to the game’s producer and director by way of a short Q&A, a Nintendo rep chatted a bit about the titles of the game. In response, they noted: ” It has a variety of meanings. For us, the sun is the source of all life, and it’s the same way in the Pokemon world....

Bringing caring and color to the world October 5 Publisher Skybound Games has offered up the first details and trailer for its upcoming adventure titleRainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan, a whimsical tale of empathy and understanding that is coming to PC (Steam) and consoles on October 5. Rainbow Billywill see players guide the titular lad as he journies through the World of Imagination, drained of joy and happiness by the wicked entity Leviathan....

Tripwire Interactive is staying true to their mod maker roots by releasing the fullRed Orchestra 2Mod SDK today. If you own the game, you can start tinkering by downloading the SDK from the tools section on Steam. A limited pre-release SDK had been made available to select modders at an earlier date, and they have already been hard at work with custom maps and total conversions. Check out a few of the total conversions that are currently in the works: Pacific theater modRising Storm, Vietnam modIn Country: Vietnam, and World War I modIron Europe....

Yoshi Island Zone! [Update:check out our fullimpressions piece of the DLC here.] At this morning’s Nintendo Direct, Satoru Iwata announced a brand new piece ofSonic Lost WorldDLC that’s exclusive to the Wii U. The game is getting a “Yoshi’s Island Zone,” which includes pipes, coins, and other bits and pieces ofMario. According to Iwata, it’s availableright nowforfree! Iwata hints at the next piece of DLC — you canlinkyour Wii U to the eShop early next year....

Crash voice: ‘Whoa’ Microsoft has been busy…buying things. Although the Xbox One has been light on exclusives this generation the company seems to be prepping hard for the Xbox Scarlett next year, as they acquired Double Fine just recently, and acquired Playground Games, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, and Ninja Theory. Oh, and they opened a new studio called The Initiative, and they’re considering buying a Japanese developer. Sony, perhaps in direct response to all these buyouts, might be returning the favor....

Get ready for in-game goodness We knew it was coming — we’ve already been treated to a revealtrailer— but on Tuesday, June 16 we’ll get our first in-game glimpse ofDeus Ex: Mankind Divided. The news comes courtesy of a recenttweet by the official Deus Ex twitter account. Watch the Deus Ex#MankindDividedin-game reveal on June 16th at the@E3Square Enix conference.#CantKillProgresspic.twitter.com/yYkOX0CO3u — Deus Ex (@DeusEx)May 12, 2025 It doesn’t give much (read: ANYTHING) away, but we do know that it’ll come during Square Enix’s conference next week, the firstbespoke E3 conference from the Japanese publisher in three years....

New screens It’s easy to forget a few of the projects announced during the Nintendo Switch livestream recently, because there was a lot. All of them might not be coming at launch, or possibly even 2017, but they exist! And while some third parties didn’t have the biggest showing (Ubisoft announced three ports after the presentation), a few did, like Square Enix when they unveiledProject Octopath Travelerto the world (as well as aI am Setsunaport)....

Get to know the people that make great videogames This week onSup, Holmes?we welcome former EA developer and current Minority Media Inc. creative director Vander Caballero to the program. Vander’s first game with Minority,Papo & Yo,bravely takes on issues that most other developers would shy away from. We live in a time when our mainstream culture still sees videogames as the stuff of children’s fantasies, not appropriate for dealing with serious issues....

Smooth moves Well this sure is a fine way to start off the day! Ojiro “Moppin” Fumoto, the creator ofDownwell, has taken a job at Nintendo. 任天堂に就職しました！がんばるぞ〜 — もっぴん (@moppppin)July 29, 2025 “I’ll do my best,” he said in tweet. Downwellis a roguelike action game about strategically falling and it feelssowonderful. I hope you try playing it sometime, because I want good things for you.Downwellisvery much a good thing....

Featuring tons of amazing original art! Rememberthat magazine that we announced a little while ago? We won’t be mad at you if you don’t. The good news is, we haven’t forgotten about it. In fact, we’ve been working withthe crew at GameFanday and night for almost two month now in order to get our first issue out the door, and it’s (finally) looking like we’ll be ready to launch within the week....

40 games bundled in support of three charities Humble Bundle has partnered with numerous game developers and authors to put on aweek-long “Freedom” bundleto support the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Rescue Committee in light of President Trump’s immigration order. You in? Wait’ll you see this list. The bundle has a minimum buy-in of $30, which might seem steep, but all of the proceeds go to those charities (you can split your payment between the three as you see fit) and the list of games, to say nothing of the eBooks, is rather astounding....

Thomas Was Alonesales have eclipsed the one million mark, creator Mike Bithell revealed yesterday viaTwitter. The minimalist platformer wasn’t an overnight success, though.Thomas Was Alonefirst arrived on Windows and Mac during the summer of 2012, meaning this milestone took nearly two years to achieve. Previously, Bithellattributedmuch of his game’s success to the PlayStation 3 and Vita version that landed last April. The developer called PlayStation Plus “amazing,” adding the platform “inflated [his] audience beyond what a normal esoteric indie platformer would have, which is great....