I never felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing every day for two years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I somehow never finished decorating. I had plenty of ideas for my island, sure, but actually implementing them was another story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped make New Horizons a huge success are also slow, manual, and cumbersome, and my patience for decorating and redecorating had finally worn thin.
Invincible VS launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on April 30, 2026, and preorders are now live. These include multiple physical PS5 and Xbox Series X versions, including a $50 standard edition available at multiple online retailers. Amazon and GameStop also have exclusive variants of the standard edition with their own unique cover art, but otherwise feature all the same content as the standard edition.
All of them. All the parts? Yeah. It's hard to separate parts. We all just want it to be a good game. My official role is consultant, so anytime they show me anything, I'll give them my honest opinion and try to improve it as much as I can. I'm just dabbling in all of it. Mostly, obviously, I did most of the writing.
Still looking for the right gaming-oriented gift this holiday season? While we're start off the final weeks of December, some retailers are reinitiating Black Friday-level discounts to aid with your holiday shopping. One of the standout deals at Amazon is for the PlayStation VR2, which is now priced at just $299, down from its usual $400. This discount of $101 makes it an excellent holiday gift option.
Even if you've played a half-dozen Trails games, you might not know who Father Kevin Graham is, but boy, you're abut to. Essentially, the James Bond of Trails' Septian Church, Kevin is one of the most delightful and complex characters the series has ever seen - and after playing a few hours of Trails Beyond the Horizon, Falcom hasn't missed a beat.
Earlier, the developer and publisher Rockstar Games had slated a November 2026 release timeline. However, the company has now announced another delay. But the company has graced the fans with two trailers of the game so far. The first trailer revolved primarily around the two protagonists, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, but the second trailer showcased a wider cast that will appear throughout the storyline.
"Baldur's Gate 3 was a good game and I'm proud of it, but I think this one is going to be way better," Vincke told Bloomberg this week. One challenge during its development was taking the existing rule set for Wizards of the Coast's pen-and-paper RPG and adapting it to a video game. "Here, we're making a system that's made for a video game. It's much easier to understand," he explained.
"It's progressing really well," Howard told Game Informer. "The majority of the studio's on [Elder Scrolls 6]. but I'll say this: We always overlap. So, we're very used to overlapping development. And we have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them. And it's a process. We all wish it went a little bit faster--or a lot faster--but it's a process that we want to get right."
In late September, my social media feeds lit up with rumors that the annual Game Developers Conference, held every spring at the Moscone Center, was going to change drastically in its 2026 iteration. One source for this speculation was an official slide deck that promised a rebrand to the "Festival of Gaming," a simplified and more affordable ticket pricing structure, official events spread out across the city, and new talk
The $17 Woolhaven expansion has been in the works for two years, marking Cult of the Lamb's biggest content update since launch. The DLC will add new dungeons, buildings, weapons, characters, quests, and even entirely new systems to shake up the gameplay. This includes an all-new ranching system, which will let you tame and raise beasts that can be used as mounts or as emergency food, depending on how dire your situation gets.
I'd been in full production mode every single day from the very start of each project to the very end, for 20 years. I stayed so long because I loved the games. It was a real privilege to be there, but it was probably the right time to leave. I turned 45 just after Red Dead 2 came out. I thought, well, it's probably a good time to try working on some other stuff.
You would think stabbing a foe with a sword was enough. But a new update for Assassin's Creed Shadows will let you twist the weapon, elbow the enemy in the face, and then stab them again in the head. It's pretty gnarly, and it's part of title update 1.1.7, which is planned to start arriving December 16. On the Ubisoft website, the patch notes highlight the bloody new finishers, saying they "bring more flair to your encounters." The official Assassin's Creed account on YouTube shared a video--seen below--showcasing the gruesome maneuvers for Naoe and Yasuke.
At The Game Awards last week, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became the 12th title to win Game of the Year. Since the awards' inception in 2014, the top prize has rarely gone to an independent studio. But that doesn't mean that the biggest publishers always win either. To date, the publisher with the most Game of the Year Awards is Sony, which emerged victorious last year with Astro Bot, The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020, and God of War in 2018.
