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Board game developer CMON has announced it will pause board game development and crowdfunding projects in response to the US trade tariffs.

Applin has made its Pokémon Go debut, alongside its two original evolutions, Flapple and Appletun. With Applin, there’s a (kind of) new mechanic in the game that involves picking up items off the floor — something we saw vaguely tested during the April Fools’ 2025 event with Poké Balls. Our guide details how to find...

Ubisoft hopes to have the offline mode released by the end of 2025, but warned that The Crew Motorfest will take longer.

I, for one, am sick of the harmful stereotypes of mushrooms perpetuated in the media. If you’d like to play an awesome game that offers a more authentic and friendly fungus experience, Mycelia is currently on sale at Amazon for its lowest price ever. Usually $39.99, this winner of Austria’s 2024 Spiel der Spiele (Game...

When an iPad running iPadOS 19 is connected to a Magic Keyboard, a macOS-like menu bar will appear on the screen, according to the leaker Majin Bu. This change would further blur the lines between the iPad and the Mac. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously claimed that iPadOS 19 will be "more like macOS," with unspecified improvements to productivity, multitasking, and app window management, and the addition of a macOS-like menu bar would certainly align with that overall plan. In a blog post today...

Curing vampirism in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered can only be done via two methods. One is a lengthy quest, so you’ll likely want to take the other approach. After you’ve been hit by a vampire, there’s a chance you’ll gain the disease Porphyric Hemophilia, which will drain your fatigue and eventually turn you...

Mantic Games, the talented tabletop team behind Halo: Flashpoint, is readying its next big project: a board game based on the Assassin’s Creed series. Assassin’s Creed: Animus is what a Mantic rep described to Polygon as a “true board game,” as opposed to a skirmish or miniatures game that just so happens to take place...

Remedy's first foray into co-op shooters, FBC: Firebreak, is officially launching on June 17. Following employees tasked with cleaning up The Oldest House, the mysterious headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, the game balances team-based action with the supernatural abilities and enemies that made Control so interesting.  In our hands-on with the game, the biggest and most positive point of comparison for Firebreak''s chaotic action was Left 4 Dead, but the game's unique collection of "...

I think I speak for most people when I say that we're done with multiplayer shooters. 2024 saw the rise and fall of supposed behemoths like Concord and XDefiant, and while 2025 has seen newcomers like Fragpunk make a decent dent, the interest in FPS games seems to be at an all-time low. Enter FBC Firebreak, a bizarre new co-op shooter from Alan Wake and Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment. Set in the chaotic world of Control, it's certainly the most interesting take on the genre that I've s...

Back when Meta first introduced its Twitter competitor Threads, many noted that the company had failed to secure the threads.com domain and instead launched the website at threads.net. At the time, the Threads dot com domain belonged to a messaging app startup that said it was reluctant to rebrand its business. But that startup was later acquired by Shopify and Meta did eventually acquire the coveted threads.com domain for an undisclosed amount. Now, Meta is finally moving Threads’ website to th...

Sea for yourself. The bright and colourful pirate adventure Trident's Tale launches on the Switch eShop on 22nd May 2025 for £22.49 / $24.99. Developed by 3DClouds, a studio best known for creating kid-friendly games based on big IPs such as Hot Wheels and Transformers, this looks to be an inviting way of introducing younger gamers to more open-world adventures.

June 17th is the release date for FBC: Firebreak, Remedy's triple mate co-op shooter set in the Control universe, which is also the Alan Wake universe, which also might be the Max Payne universe if you blur your eyes and plug your ears and shout "Alex Casey" a lot when Rockstar's lawyers come knocking. It'll be available on Steam and Epic for $39.99 / €39.99 / £32.99 (or more for a bunch of extra cosmetics), and also day one on that game subscription service by the company that you might not wan...

Remedy Entertainment announced on Thursday that FBC: Firebreak, its upcoming three-person cooperative shooter set in the Remedy Extended Universe, will launch worldwide on June 17. The release date was revealed via a livestream on Remedy’s Twitch and YouTube channels, which featured live gameplay of the “Paper Chase” mission and another, previously unseen mission called “Hot...

A leaker known as Majin Bu today claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a USB-C port. In a blog post citing sources, the leaker said that when an iPhone with a USB-C port is connected to an external display, users will be able to take advantage of a Stage Manager-like interface with multiple apps open at once on the screen. However, he said that there might be more limitations compared to Stage Manager on iPads. iPhone models...

As if there weren’t already enough quests, storylines, and explorable locations crammed into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, it’s about to get even chunkier with its first major DLC expansion. Titled Brushes With Death, developer Warhorse Studios has just given fans a first look at the new DLC, and it’ll appeal to your artistic side. It’s also been confirmed that the expansion will arrive alongside KCD2’s next major update, 1.3, some time in May.

Razer has unveiled two new iterations of its Pro Click mouse with an eye toward comfort. The Pro Click V2 is a standard mouse model, while the Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition is the first vertical mouse design from the company. More and more peripheral manufacturers are offering vertical designs, which can be a more ergonomic mouse option, particularly if you experience discomfort when spending long stretches at a computer. The Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition has eight programmable buttons and promi...

Hyper Light Breaker's next update includes a progression and structure overhaul.

The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool, the data it's captured has impacted things like our understanding of solar wind. Today's photo shows off the spun-sugar-like particles caught in the magnetic field of the Sun's atmosphere, the dark "filaments" of cooler material weaving their way in between and bursting active areas that emit sola...

RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business was announced just last month, and despite its slightly wordy and DLC-sounding title, it was a welcome surprise. The first game was prime 7/10 material, and it's pretty rare we get an AA game of this calibre these days. Earlier today publisher Nacon shared a new story trailer for the upcoming FPS, giving an insight into the game you probably won't care about given the whole thing here is being a robot cop that does robot cop things. Oh, and it has a rele...

I love good world-building in my video games: pouring over fantastical geography, untangling the relationships between the people who live there, learning the intricacies of its arcana. While video games often contain great world-building, the way you learn it through a game’s lore often leaves something to be desired. Clunky info-dumps from NPCs get tiring...

The post How Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ Two-Lane Battle System Lets You Relive the Glory Days of the Arcade appeared first on Xbox Wire.

This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Kazuya Tsurumaki’s beloved cult-classic anime FLCL, which is a joyous occasion for fans — especially since it also marks the long-awaited premiere of FLCL Reanimated, a fan-organized shot-for-shot re-creation of FLCL’s fifth episode, constructed over four years by a team of more than 300 animators across the globe....

It seems Switch 2's divisive Game-Key Cards - physical releases containing a download "key", rather than the full game data - will be a pretty common sight when the console launches this June. The vast majority of third-party Switch 2 physical releases currently available for pre-order in Japan come on game-key cards, and the situation is looking similar in the UK.

"It’s an RPG shooter, it’s not a run-and-gun shooter."

Meta is finally acknowledging that Facebook’s feed is filled with too many spammy posts. In an update, the company says it plans to start “cracking down” on some of the worst offenders. “Facebook Feed doesn’t always serve up fresh, engaging posts that you consistently enjoy,” the company writes. “We’re working on it.” Specifically, Meta says it will lower the reach of creators that share posts with "long, distracting captions” as well as posts with captions that are irrelevant or unrelated to th...

Netflix is adding a new way to watch with subtitles. Starting with season five of the psychological thriller You, captions with only dialogue will be available alongside the standard Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC). If you aren't already familiar, SDH/CC subtitles include not only dialogue but audio cues like [alarm rings], [knock on door] or [Don't Stop Believing intensifies over the jukebox]. Netflix's new option cuts those non-dialogue audio descriptions. You'll find the d...

Move over Lofi Girl, there’s a new mellow YouTube music channel in town. Square Enix Music Channel released a chill 24/7 stream on Thursday morning, playing remixes of the publisher’s catchiest tracks from its most popular games. The YouTube playlist, called Chill Square Enix Music 24/7, is also available on Spotify. Square Enix is known...

Bowers & Wilkins is back with another pair of high-end wireless headphones. The Px7 S3 looks like an improvement over the previous release in every major way. The company’s calling it the "most advanced wireless headphone" it has ever made. To that end, this model features re-engineered drive units, dedicated headphones amplifiers and "greatly-upgraded" active noise cancellation technology. Bowers & Wilkins says that every aspect of these headphones have been redesigned, except for the cone. The...

Starting today, April 24, Apple Stores around the world are giving away a special pin for free to customers who request one, while supplies last. Photo Credit: Filip Chudzinski The enamel pin's design is inspired by the Global Close Your Rings Day award in the Activity app, which Apple Watch users can receive by closing all three Activity rings today. The limited-edition pin is the physical counterpart to that digital award. To receive the pin, simply visit an Apple Store and ask an employee abo...

From Balatro to Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers, last year’s breakout deckbuilders were all about playing cards. In 2025, dice might be the hottest trend. Pulling from one of my favorite roguelikes ever, Dicey Dungeons, along with the fundamentals that keep me coming back to the likes of Slay the Spire, Spellrogue is a smart spellcasting spin on the format. Built by Guidelight Games and published by Deep Rock Galactic studio Ghost Ship, it’s earned itself a ‘very positive’ user rating of 87% si...

Indie studio Mighty Yell says "the difficult state of funding in games" has forced it to cut an unspecified number of employees.

It's been a few months since Hyper Light Breaker launched into early access, unfortunately arriving in a bit of a mess. The game just wasn't there, which obviously is what early access is for, but it was rough. Everything was just a bit too difficult, too unbalanced, and the loop wasn't strong enough to do over and over again, none of which you want in a roguelike. Developer Heart Machine have been tinkering away at it though, bringing in some much needed tweaks here and there, and now the game'...

A pre-orderly fashion. Well, Switch 2 pre-orders are finally live across North America and we're interested in getting a sense of how it's been for Nintendo fans on the ground in the US and Canada. Following a 15-day delay from the planned date, Switch 2 pre-orders went live at retailers across North America at 9pm ET / 12am ET. Europeans have been busy pre-ordering the system for weeks, but "the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions" caused Nintendo to postpone retailer pre...

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I am weary of exposition in video games. Don’t get me wrong — I love when a game has well-developed world-building and lore. But I don’t love getting into a conversation with an NPC who doesn’t talk like a real person and just monologues at me about their fictional religion or place of birth like...