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It seems like just yesterday that Riftbound, the League of Legends card game, was bursting onto the scene with Origins. On October 23, its Radiance set will arrive with numerous new cards for deckbuilders to dig into, and today Game Informer is showcasing one of them: Ziggs, Explosive.Long-time League players know Ziggs as the mid-lane artillerist and demolitions expert, flinging long-range explosives all around to maneuver, destroy, and cause general chaos and mayhem. Ziggs, Explosive makes good on both that vision of the League champion and his moniker, deploying special Bomb gear tokens on battlefields to tilt the scales in…
Bobby Kotick, the controversial former CEO of Call of Duty publisher Activision-Blizzard, is entering a surprising new role. As film companies Warner Bros. and Paramount complete their massive $111 billion merger, a new board of directors is being appointed to lead the new parent company, Skydance. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kotick, alongside investor and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, will join the board.As of yesterday, Paramount officially completed its takeover of Warner Bros. This has massive ramifications for the film and tv industry, but it affects video games as well – WB Games publishes the Batman: Arkham series, Hogwarts Legacy,…
The Pokémon franchise turned 30 years old this past February, but the celebration has continued on throughout the entirety of 2026. We’re still eagerly awaiting new details on Pokémon Winds & Waves, but 2026 has brought us a ton of really great Pokémon merchandise. Of all that merchandise, I’ve been squarely focused on the recently released Pokémon Trading Card Game: 30th Celebration expansion. Thankfully, my most-anticipated Pokémon release of 2026 is now out, and The Pokémon Company sent over some of the items so we could see what we can pull.Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration is all about celebrating the three…
It’s been nearly seven years since the last mainline Gears of War game, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the franchise is little more than a past-expiration relic from the Xbox 360 era. Gears of War: E-Day may take the series back to its early days, but it is far from The Coalition compromising on innovation. Instead, the studio delivers its finest work since taking over the franchise, giving fans ample reason to be excited for the chainsaw-riddled cover shooter once again.Reprising their roles as the leads, Marcus and Dom visit the city of Kalona to be honored as heroes…
The 2006 release of Wii Sports was a cultural phenomenon. People fought each other in the aisles of Best Buy to secure their Wii consoles before the holidays, primarily because of the Wii’s pack-in motion-control tech demo. Family gatherings often devolved into bowling or tennis matches, regardless of whose house we were at since everyone owned a Wii. Three years later, Wii Sports Resort didn’t have the same cultural impact, but it introduced the Wii Motion Plus, giving fans a reason to upgrade. With Nintendo Switch Sports in 2022, the novelty came from the series’ long absence and the franchise arriving…
Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft are two of the biggest fantasy games around, even though they exist in completely different mediums. As such, a crossover between the two is a natural fit (I bet there are plenty of D&D groups who also run raids in World of Warcraft together), but the form of that collaboration is less certain. In a private presentation breaking down the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft project, the designers made their approach clear: this book is a toybox. “This book is absolutely a toolbox or toybox that you can use to fill your…
In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, we dive deep into our Grand Theft Auto VI cover story and extract the coolest details for your enjoyment. Marcus, Alex, Charles, and Kyle discuss how Leonida compares to Florida, the game’s updated weather system and how it may compare to Red Dead Redemption 2, and speculate on what may happen to players who prey on endangered species.Later in the podcast, we discuss our time playing Star Wars: Galactic Racer and End of Abyss, the latter being a new survival horror game that reminds us of Metroid: Other M (complimentary).The Game…
I first played End of Abyss at a Summer Game Fest demo in 2024, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. The full release is about as good as I hoped it would be, blending Metroid’s familiar formula with a survival horror flair, making it stand out even amongst an oversaturated crowd of indies. My playthrough was unfortunately infested with some major bugs, but I enjoyed the rest of the experience enough to largely brush those aside. In End of Abyss, you play as a technician who ventures into an abandoned facility alongside soldiers and their captain. The setting…
The “cozy” phenomenon we’ve all seen in the video game world is certainly not isolated to that corner of gaming. If anything, the concept might even have a longer pedigree in the tabletop world, and we continue to see more success stories that tap into a low-stakes, relaxing, non-violent play loops. One of the best board game releases of 2026 so far fits squarely into this camp: Cozy Stickerville tasks you with growing a small town by placing stickers out onto the board. Players work together cooperatively over the course of multiple sessions to add new elements to the village.…
In 2008, Kojima Productions released what was billed as the swan song for Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The game had the staggering task of tying up decades of storytelling by bringing together Solid Snake, Ocelot, Otacon, Raiden, and many more characters for one explosive finale. The adventure centers on a rapidly aging Solid Snake racing against the clock to stop his twin and nemesis, Liquid Snake, one last time. Of course, there are far more bizarre shenanigans at play. Guns of the Patriots was acclaimed for its storytelling, cinematic presentation, and evolution…