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Finding a great new Discord hangout game that’s not a roguelike still feels like striking gold

by admin | Jun 15, 2026 | Video Games

Last year’s explosion of ‘friendslop’ games inspired by Peak’s phenomenal success may be a recession indicator, but I’m still here for it: I love seeing indie developers focusing on small, cheap, creative games built around the idea of...

Hide-and-seek game where you paint your body to blend in sells a million copies in four days

by admin | Jun 14, 2026 | Video Games

In Meccha Chameleon, you begin play as a featureless, white, blobby biped—but you don’t stay that way. Indeed, it’s a wacky hide-and-seek game where instead of morphing into a prop or smashing serial killers’ knees with a wood pallet, you paint your...

Nintendo’s legal battle with Palworld looks shakier than ever: It may only get ‘$30,000 chump change’ if it wins at all

by admin | Jun 13, 2026 | Video Games

Palworld’s irreverent ‘Pokémon with guns’ conceit won it all sorts of buzz, but also attention from Nintendo’s infamous lawyers—Palworld developer Pocketpair was sued by the big ‘tendo back in 2024 over a few Pokémon patents for around...

Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won’t let me be a trillionaire

by admin | Jun 12, 2026 | Video Games

The news that Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire, which seems like something the world definitely doesn’t need, got me thinking: have I ever even played a videogame that let me be a trillionaire? I’ve definitely racked up millions of...

You can just bypass Fable’s ‘complex, nuanced’ reputation system with enough gold

by admin | Jun 11, 2026 | Video Games

At last, the Fable reboot has shown off a lengthy 30 minute gameplay demo touting the word cloud-style reputation system that’ll decide whether its 1000+ NPCs laud or heckle you as you traipse through their peasant hamlets. Every character has their own values...

‘An evolved game of cat and mouse:’ Alien: Isolation 2 leads on taking the alien outside, the good kind of AI, and why a sequel took so long

by admin | Jun 10, 2026 | Video Games

Two years ago, Sega and Creative Assembly announced that they were finally working on a follow-up to our 2014 game of the year. Remarkably, in the years since Isolation there hasn’t been another stealth game that really captures its sense of dread—where most...
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