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In-depth game reviews, guides and long-form cultural analysis. We treat games like what they are — the defining creative medium of our century.
GTA VI: Six Months Away
Grand Theft Auto VI is confirmed for November 19, 2026. With six months to release, the information picture has clarified considerably since the original 2023 trailer — and the scale of what Rockstar appears to be building is unlike anything in the medium's history.
Crimson Desert
After seven years of development and one of gaming's most protracted reveal cycles, Crimson Desert arrives as something rarer than a polished masterpiece: a genuinely ambitious Frankenstein's monster of ideas, many of them brilliant, some of them broken, all of them interesting. Pearl Abyss has made a game unlike anything else this year — for better and for worse.
Resident Evil Requiem
Released on the eve of the Resident Evil franchise's 30th anniversary, Requiem delivers a sequel worthy of the occasion. Capcom has achieved something long thought impossible: a mainline entry that successfully bridges the claustrophobic first-person horror of RE7 with the kinetic precision of the modern remakes, without compromising either.
GTA VI: Six Months Away
Grand Theft Auto VI is confirmed for November 19, 2026. With six months to release, the information picture has clarified considerably since the original 2023 trailer — and the scale of what Rockstar appears to be building is unlike anything in the medium's history.
Crimson Desert
After seven years of development and one of gaming's most protracted reveal cycles, Crimson Desert arrives as something rarer than a polished masterpiece: a genuinely ambitious Frankenstein's monster of ideas, many of them brilliant, some of them broken, all of them interesting. Pearl Abyss has made a game unlike anything else this year — for better and for worse.
Resident Evil Requiem
Released on the eve of the Resident Evil franchise's 30th anniversary, Requiem delivers a sequel worthy of the occasion. Capcom has achieved something long thought impossible: a mainline entry that successfully bridges the claustrophobic first-person horror of RE7 with the kinetic precision of the modern remakes, without compromising either.
Nioh 3
Six years after Nioh 2, Team Ninja returns with a sequel that applies the lessons of the studio's entire post-Nioh output — Wo Long, Rise of the Ronin, Stranger of Paradise — into one comprehensive, extraordinary package. Nioh 3 is the best game in the series, and among the finest Soulslike experiences ever made.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Hideo Kojima doubles down on everything that divided players about the original — and creates something more fully realised, more emotionally complete and more technically spectacular in the process.
DOOM: The Dark Ages
id Software's prequel to the 2016 reboot takes the Doom Slayer back to his origins — and in doing so, takes the franchise somewhere it has never been. Slower, weightier and more cinematic than its predecessors, The Dark Ages is a bold reinvention that doesn't quite match Eternal's mechanical peaks but earns its own identity with conviction.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive's combat system rewards deep understanding. From parry timing to Picto builds and superboss strategies, this is everything you need to master Expedition 33's battle system — and break it wide open in the endgame.
The Indie Uprising of 2025
By May 2025, the year's most acclaimed games include a French RPG made by thirty developers, a co-op adventure from a studio of fewer than a hundred, and a puzzle roguelike that arrived without a marketing campaign. The AAA industry's stranglehold on critical prestige is not just loosening — it may be over.