Monster Hunter Rise PC port will finally join the hunt January 12

Demo headed to Steam in just a fortnight’s time As part of Capcom’s Tokyo Game Show stream, the long-time publisher finally revealed a launch date for the long-awaited PC port ofMonster Hunter Rise. The fantasy adventure will hit Steam on July 01, 2025, with a demo arriving on October 13. The PC port will feature the most up-to-date build of the Nintendo Switch release, further boosted with improved textures, uncapped framerates, and support for both 4K displays and ultrawide monitors, painting the lands of Kamura with dazzling visual splendor....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 232 words · Juan Stanley

Nagging from Valve co-workers got MINERVA on Steam

Half-Life 2: Episode One mod Up until now, I wasn’t aware of Adam Foster’s highly-regardedHalf Life 2modMINERVAin any real sense. The name sounds familiar, so I’m sure I had at one point or another come across it within the last few years, but I never bothered to go through with installation for whatever reason. Now thatthe game is on Steam— and people still seem thrilled by the mod — the excuses are dwindling....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Daniel Lee

NBA 2K26 release countdown, editions, pre-order benefits, prices, and more

NBA 2K26is available for pre-order as of writing, and there’s plenty to go through before you’re able to confirm your purchase. The pre-orders are now available for both PC and consoles, and come in three different editions. As usual, you’re able to opt for only one edition based on your needs and budget. This year, some changes are being made to how advanced access works and the content of the three editions....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 283 words · Stephanie Harvey

Phantom Doctrine is like XCOM that trades aliens for spies and lies

The truth is out there It’s nearly impossible to succinctly sum upPhantom Doctrine. “Turn-based tactical strategy game centered around Cold War-era conspiracy theories” is the closest I’ve gotten. That’s still six (six?) adjectives and adverbs, and it doesn’t get close to telling the whole story. Pulling all the way back revealsPhantom Doctrine‘s most alluring promise. Developer CreativeForge is taking real events from the Cold War and repurposing them in an alternate history....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 1060 words · Joanna Kelly

Probably Archery definitely on Steam and Humble now

This looks nothing like my seventh grade gym class Probably Archery, the self-proclaimed “most realistic archery simulator ever…probably,” is available today, so you can put those William Tell skills to the test without endangering your little brother’s life again. It’s on bothSteamandHumblefor $8.99, a 25% discount over the regular price. The game’s seen some changes as a result of its Greenlight campaign. According to Southeast Games, some of the least well-received content has been removed in favor of things like the china shop level....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Alexander Vasquez

Review: Mega Man Pixel Tactics

Card get Mega Manhad a rough ride for a while there. Before we saw that Capcom was hard at work onMega Man 11, there were seven long years of nothing. Instead, other talented studios and fans picked up the torch, and refused to let this once famous mascot die. Jasco, with theirMega Man-centric adaption of Level 99 Games’Pixel Tactics, is one of those entities. Mega Man Pixel TacticsPublisher:Jasco GamesReleased: August 10, 2017MSRP: $19....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 658 words · Ann Rivas

Savor the international flavor of the Mega Man 6 OST

Fighting robots ’round the world [“Rockman Rockman 6” byKinniku] After being denied a release on Wii’s Virtual Console, the final NESMega Manhasat long lastmade it to the American 3DS eShop. Before we graduate to the synth goodness of the SNES, let’s enjoy one last serving of native NES chiptunes with theMega Man 6 OST. For $8.95, you will score both the classic and PS1Complete Workssoundtracks, the latter which also includes “Kaze yo Tsutaete,” Roll’s vocal theme fromMega Man Battle & Chase....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Spencer Craig

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice doesn’t have any online component

No phantom menaces From Software has designed its new game,Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, to be entirely offline. It’s a single-player experience through and through. In a hands-off E3 demo with From Software and Activision, From Software confirmed thatSekirowas designed from the beginning to only have a single-player aspect. There is no online component. That’s a significant departure from the developer’sSoulstitles andBloodborne. In those games, players can invade other people’s worlds and fight one another in a PvP aspect....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Jennifer Mclaughlin

Showdown is Shovel Knight’s final DLC

Wii U’s final game, too! Yacht Club Games has announced that one final game will be coming toShovel Knight: Treasure Trove. DubbedShowdown, the game is a competitive multiplayer brawler that lets players pick their favorite characters fromShovel Knightand smack each other around. Better still, it will be free to owners ofTreasure Trove. Taking inspiration from theSmash Bros.series, it looks like a real hoot. In addition to four-player battles, there is also a story mode set to appear....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Paul Potter

Size matters, proclaims Nvidia’s ION platform

Be on the lookout for Netbooks and Nettops (mini-desktops) based on Nvidia’s powerful yet bite-sized ION platform, as the first group of PCs to utilize the technology arecoming in Q2of this year, which we are now currently in as of yesterday. Promising to bethesolution for keeping your home theater looking sleek and capable while using the least amount of space possible, better performance for games likeCall of Duty 4, and oral sex on command, ION sounds too good to be true....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Emily Carter

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed still coming to 3DS

Seemingly tired of kart racers? Play this! Having just picked up the PC port ofSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, I’m a bit late to the party, but not unfashionably so. There is, after all, still the pending 3DS version of the rather wonderful kart racer, to say nothing of the iOS version. Sega has nailed down a release date: February 12 in North America and Feb. 8 in Europe. Multi-cart and single-cart multiplayer support for up to eight people is in, as are StreetPass challenges....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 175 words · Seth Garza

Sonic Mania is steeped in history and Easter eggs

Also a small history of Christian Whitehead It’s intriguing to see how two passionate fan project developers came together to formSonic Mania, and in essence, create a Sonic game better than Sega would have done. That’s just how Headcannon and PagodaWest Games did it, as this video from Did You Know Gaming explains, and they even got a Sonic remixer to handle the music and an outside artist to work on the intro....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Eric Martin

Squiddy Game codes (February 2025) [MINGLE]

Updated: Jun 07, 2025 Added a new code! Squiddy Gameis a much friendlier version of the challenges from the series. You help each other out because everybody is the winner, and you get to hug it out in the end. Now, I know you didn’t believe that, so get ready to fight for your dear life. To show how friendly…I mean, intimidating you are to your competitors, you can useSquiddy Gamecodes to get a bunch of free Cash and purchase the most fabulous cosmetics the game has to offer....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Christina Ruiz