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The Stardew Valley-inspired Fields of Mistria is getting a full 1.0 release this August. The news dropped during the annual Wholesome Direct, which highlights cute indie games, usually with pastel aesthetics, nonviolent gameplay, and generally cozy vibes. Fields of Mistria happens to hit all three; you can check it out for yourself in the release date announcement trailer below. Fields of Mistria is like Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon mixed with a magical fantasy world. You can romance your fellow villagers, farm crops, mine ore, and raise (and ride) various livestock, but you can also learn magic to aid in farming.…
As a fan of the Ace Attorney series, I adored Tangle Tower when I played it a few years ago. It was one of the first titles I downloaded on Apple Arcade, and I remember immediately hoping they would make more. It’s taken a few years, but the game’s sequel, The Mermaid Mask, is right around the corner, and today we got a firm release date. As revealed during the Story-Rich Games Showcase from publisher Fellow Traveller, The Mermaid Mask is dropping July 16. Check out the trailer below. The Mermaid Mask follows the same two detectives from the previous game…
I love testing new apps on my iPhone. Every year, new apps get installed and removed, with very few sticking around for the long haul. Despite my habit of testing and switching apps regularly, some have stuck around, which is a testament to their quality. These are also the most used apps on my iPhone and the first ones I install whenever I set up a new iPhone from scratch. Here are 5 iPhone apps I cannot live without in 2026. Arc Search: browse smarter, not harder Arc Search is a mobile browser that has completely changed how I search…
Citizen Sleeper and its sequel, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, are getting Nintendo Switch 2 editions later this month. More specifically, both dice-rolling adventure games will hit Switch 2 on June 25. If you already own the games on Switch, you can upgrade to the Switch 2 versions for free. Developer Gareth Damian Martin, who develops games under the studio name Jump Over The Age, revealed this news during today’s Story-Rich Showcase, hosted by Citizen Sleeper and 1000xResist publisher Fellow Traveller. If you haven’t played the Citizen Sleeper games, I cannot recommend them enough – beautiful art, amazing score, haunting stories…
Little Nightmares III launched on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and Switch 2, and PC back in October, and now, the game’s first DLC expansion, The Backstage has a release date. Text your co-op buddy asap, though, because it launches next week on June 12. Revealed during today’s Future Games Showcase, The Backstage is the first DLC expansion of the Secrets of the Spiral pass for the platformer, which Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games developed for publisher Bandai Namco. In it, players will head into the underbelly of the Carnevale, the creepy location featured in the main game. In this first-look trailer, we…
A major video game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender is reportedly no longer in development, disappointing fans who were hoping for a large-scale RPG set in the beloved animated universe. According to an IGN report, the unannounced project was being developed by Saber Interactive and was planned as a high-budget role-playing game inspired by Nickelodeon’s Avatar franchise. The game had reportedly been in development for several years before production was quietly halted. While official details about the project were limited, reports suggested it would have featured an entirely new story set thousands of years before the events of Avatar:…
You probably know Exodus as the Matthew McConaughey game, as the actor’s involvement was the pillar on which the game was promoted when it was revealed in 2023. McConaughey plays C.C. Orlev in Exodus, but his role seems ultimately minor in the larger universe and story (though we could be wrong – time will tell). The arguably more interesting and affecting involved party in the game is James Ohlen. Ohlen worked at BioWare for more than two decades, had his hand on every franchise BioWare worked on and created, and was the developer’s senior creative director at the time when…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station reportedly took precautionary shelter measures after maintenance work on a long-troubled Russian module raised fresh safety concerns about air leaks aboard the orbiting laboratory. According to reports, the incident involved Russia’s Zvezda service module, which has experienced recurring air leak problems for several years. During repair work and pressure tests connected to the leak investigation, astronauts were instructed to isolate themselves in safer sections of the ISS as engineers monitored the station’s integrity and pressure stability. The event highlights the growing strain on aging infrastructure aboard the International Space Station, particularly within some of…
If you’re a fan of co-op platformers like It Takes Two and Split Fiction, Out of Words should absolutely be on your radar. This 2D platformer stars two teenagers, Kurt and Karla, whose friendship becomes strained when one of them is moving away. Somehow, they’re transported to a bizarrely idyllic but dangerous fantasy world with their mouths erased. I played 30 minutes of the game’s second chapter during Summer Game Fest Play Days, and while the game’s stop-motion aesthetic drew me in, the clever cooperative platforming mechanics kept me hooked. It’s appropriate that my demo session with the game’s creative director…
Computex 2026 is over, and as usual, the show floor was packed with more laptops, PCs, components, peripherals, and oddball gadgets than any one person could properly process in a few days. There were sleek ultrabooks, massive gaming rigs, AI PCs, experimental designs, and plenty of products that looked like they were built mainly to make people stop and stare. A handful of products stayed on our minds long after we left the show floor. They weren’t always the most practical, powerful, or important announcements, but each had something memorable about it. So, in no particular order, here are the…