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Cyberpunk 2025: Cyberpsycho qu'est-ce que c'est

Cyberpunk 2025: Cyberpsycho qu'est-ce que c'est

Part 5: Cyberselfish

Mecha Man battles a flaming villain in Dispatch

Dispatch Delivers Exactly What It Needs To … Then It Does More

A great story and a great management sim? An embarrassment of riches in 2025

A player stands outside a barn in Palia, which houses one ormuu (a large cow-like creature), a trufflet (a furry pig), and two pekis (chickens)

I'm a fool who's fallen in love with Palia's confusing ranching job

I love visiting my fantasy animals on my Palia farm, even if I don't understand how they work.

Cyberpunk 2025: I wouldn't want to be a liar

Cyberpunk 2025: I wouldn't want to be a liar

Part 4: The Running Man

Robert Robertson considers a computer. Behind him are his coworker Chase and the superhero Blonde Blazer. Robert's dialogue options are "I can handle these criminals", "how long until my me

Dispatch reminded me of the strengths of episodic storytelling

Dispatch's regular releases were a great way to tell its superhero story

A screenshot from the Jackbox Party Pack 11, showing a stylized cartoon TV in a red field. The TV is showing a group of friends clapping and cheering.

The Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the best combo platter we've had in years

The newest Jackbox Party Pack is the best batch of mini-games we've seen in years.

A tacticool soldier wearing full body armor aims a rifle in a promotional screenshot for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Publishers are pushing genAI and hoping gamers will accept the slop

Call of Duty and Arc Raiders are two big games that have been dabbling with AI, but one is much more egregious than the other. What does that mean for gaming?

The Last Caretaker's "Wall-E meets Wind Waker," is a an interesting start, at least

The Last Caretaker's "Wall-E meets Wind Waker," is a an interesting start, at least

A robot on a boat? What could possibly go wrong

A crashed trading vessel in The Outer Worlds 2 that has been turned into a commerce hub. The space is festooned with various advertisements for Auntie's Choice products and services.

The Outer Worlds 2 has a delightful strike breaking side story

The Outer Worlds 2 has a delightful side quest that asks the player to break a strike by any means necessary.

A Martian landscape with a line of drones in the distance

Surviving Martian politics in Surviving Mars Relaunched

Life on Mars just got a lot more complicated

A screenshot of Ambrosia Sky, where the point-of-view protagonist is looking at a wall of twisted vines lit with bright pink smoke, filling the hallway of a sci-fi colony.

Ambrosia Sky: Act One is a unique, melancholic spin on sci-fi

Ambrosia Sky: Act One, the debut title from Soft Rains, is a contemplative and thoughtful game that sets up larger mysteries.

A screenshot from The Outer Worlds 2, showing the player entering the crowded underground market maintained by the smuggler group Sub Rosa.

The Outer Worlds 2 has a solid story, but tech issues are spoiling the fun

I'm enjoying my time in Arcadia, but …

World of Warcraft: Midnight may correct one of the MMO's worst depictions

World of Warcraft: Midnight may correct one of the MMO's worst depictions

A man named Dr. Bertham is saying "You've made a grave misjudgment, Doctor" to the player character of Sanitorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator

Sanitorium is a new game that attempts to tell an ethical asylum story

But can it avoid the tropes?

A screenshot of It Takes a War showing the ultra realistic graphics

It Takes a War review that is not a review of It Takes a War

It Takes a War is bad. It Takes a War is brilliant.

A netrunner from Cyberpunk 2077 watches a floating screen displaying Tilly Norwood

Cyberpunk 2025: One rotten girl in the city of the future

Part 3: The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.

A netrunner in Cyberpunk 2077 by a floating screen showing Katy Perry in space

Cyberpunk 2025: My heart is alloy // I live in boxes

Part 2: Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams

A screenshot from Prey in first-person perspective. The prtoagonist is carrying the heavy industrial gloo gun in the cramped industrial spaces of the space station Talos 1, while black inky

Rogue shares our scariest gaming moments for Halloween

A medical bill for $25,000, which drives the protagonist's motivation in the itch clicker game Bloodmoney!

We're all broke, and horror games are digging into that dysfunction

An era of rage and hatred and fear

A screenshot from The Outer Worlds, depicting the protagonist from behind cloaked in shadow, standing against the illuminating circle of a space rift.

The Outer Worlds 2 examines the clash between cults and capitalism

A firefight between the protagonist in Pigface, who is using a machine gun with a laser sight, and a masked antagonist. In the distance, the sun is setting, turning the sky a vivid red.

Pigface is a grimy, early access murderfest for real sickos (it's me, I'm sickos)

A 2000s-era desktop that is glitching and falling apart, with distorted windows opening and distorting. In the center is a woman with long hair obscuring her face, ominous and foreboding.

Oneway.exe and horror found in the fading internet

Oneway.exe taps into an Internet that’s fading fast

A screenshot from the Nintendo Direct reveal of Animal Crossing: New Horizon 3.0, with a player character outside Kapp'n's new seaside hotel.

Animal Crossing: New Horizon is getting a seaside update alongside Switch 2

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 is a surprise update to the cozy life sim island game arriving on Jan. 15 alongside a Switch 2 version of the game.

A group of heroes in Fellowship battle a large pirate zombie

Fellowship is amazing, but matchmaking isn't cutting it for me anymore

Fellowship is a real delight, and has reignited my love for dungeoning in WoW. But the better I get, the harder it becomes to play