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Flameo! Magic: The Gathering’s Avatar: The Last Airbender set is dropping soon, bringing the journey of Aang and the gang to life in booster packs and drafts around the world. Wizards of the Coast offered us the opportunity to reveal some cards in the upcoming set, both new and familiar.Our new card is leaning into the “Ally” creature type, as well as multi-colored deckbuilding. The Earthen Ally is a humble 0/2 for one Green mana, gaining power for each color among Allies you control. Heck, you can pay a whopping 2 plus WUBRG (that’s one of each color of mana,…

PlayStation opened a cloud streaming beta for its PlayStation Portal remote play device, allowing PlayStation Plus Premium members to play select PS5 games from the Plus catalog without needing to connect to their own console at home. Now, PlayStation is rolling out cloud streaming as a full feature for the Portal. Starting today, PlayStation Plus Premium members can stream thousands of games via the cloud on a Portal connected to WiFi. Games available with the feature’s launch today include Astro Bot, Borderlands 4, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Fortnite, Ghost of Yōtei, Grand Theft Auto V, and thousands more – you can…

Nintendo has released another app for iOS and Android devices, and it’s called Nintendo Store. As the name implies, you can view and purchase games, add games to your wishlist, and subscribe to news and events for specific titles. But more exciting than all of that is the new play activity-tracking screen, viewable within the Nintendo Store app. You can sign in with your Nintendo account and view your Switch 2 and Switch play activity, and you can even view your 3DS and Wii U game play time logged before February 2020. This means that, strangely, the Nintendo Store app is…

Publisher NetEase is planning to shut down Fantastic Pixel Castle, a studio it founded in 2023 and led by Greg Street, formerly of Blizzard and Riot Games. The studio was developing a triple-A MMORPG codenamed Ghost.As reported by Video Games Chronicle, Street announced the impending closure on LinkedIn yesterday. He states Fantastic Pixel Castle (FPC) will be shuttered on November 17, unless it’s able to secure funding to continue working on its MMO project independently. “Fantastic Pixel Castle will close its doors on Nov 17,” reads Street’s statement. “While there is still a chance we can secure funding after that date,…

We interviewed the general manager of Marvel Games for insight into several of the big projects the team has been working to bring to life, and where the games division is headed next.Our recent issue of Game Informer included a big look at some of the major game projects currently in development connected to Marvel Games. As the entity overseeing and partnering with studios to bring those efforts to life, Marvel Games has an impressively wide selection of connections across the games industry, with games the run the gamut in terms of genre, gameplay style, and artistic direction. We had a…

The Switch 2 continues to be a sales juggernaut, as Nintendo has announced that it has sold over 10 million Switch 2 consoles in its first six months.In its 2nd quarter fiscal year report, Nintendo states 10.36 million Switch 2 units have been sold from its June 5 launch through the end of September. Although Nintendo frames this number as an overall decrease from the Switch 2’s hot start, which established it as the fastest-selling home console ever, it has remained a strong performer. This number now means that Switch 2 is selling more than twice as fast as the original…

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is gracing the cover of the latest Game Informer issue, and the digital version of the issue is live today ahead of physical copies hitting mailboxes starting next month. As such, you can expect all kinds of coverage about the game from our time visiting Square Enix’s Shibuya, Tokyo, offices to play Reimagined for two hours and interview various leads on the development team. That coverage begins today!While talking to Reimagined producer Takeshi Ichikawa about this remake – Square Enix’s second remake following the release of the original Dragon Quest VII in 2001 (in the U.S.)…

A 10/10 score is an honor we at Game Informer don’t bestow often, but it’s a big deal when we do. It involves careful consideration and conversation with the other editors, ensuring that it’s not a number we hand out lightly. Across our outlet’s entire history, only a few dozen games have been awarded the score, and they’re included in this easily accessible list.However, there are also some fun “almost” 10s throughout Game Informer’s history. By scouring through the magazine archive, we uncovered a handful of instances where 10s were sort of handed out that make for interesting edge cases.  The…

The digital version of Game Informer magazine Issue 373, featuring Dragon Quest VII Reimagined on the cover, is now live! Subscribers can read the full issue right here, with print issues arriving in mailboxes starting in December. If you subscribe to Game Informer before November 25, you’ll receive this latest issue highlighting Dragon Quest VII Reimagined across 12 pages in our cover story. And, because this is somehow the first-ever time a Dragon Quest game has appeared on a Game Informer cover, we have an 8-page deep dive into the history of the Dragon Quest series, as told by the…

Vampire Survivors is one of the best indie games of recent memory, distilling the risk/reward formula of roguelikes into a concentrated rush of challenge and achievement. Its success has prompted it to cross over with all sorts of games, like Contra, SaGa, Balatro, and Castlevania, but today we learned of the first fully new game to take the formula and run: Warhammer Survivors. It’s exactly what it sounds like. The standalone game stars characters from Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar in the classic Vampire Survivors format, complete with hordes of enemies, simple, pixelated graphics, and treasure chests that make you…