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Team Ninja’s Nioh series capitalized early on the rising popularity of Soulslikes, establishing itself as arguably the best non-From Software spin on the subgenre. The franchise’s faster-paced, loot-driven formula has earned it a dedicated fanbase, so much so that Nioh’s blueprint has been applied to similarly designed Team Ninja games such as Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and Rise of the Rōnin to varying results and some diminishing returns. Instead of resting on these laurels, Nioh 3 thankfully shakes up this reliable template with a new ninja-focused class, more open level design, and an intriguing time-hopping premise.I traveled to Koei Tecmo’s…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is about having fun – in the most hyperactive way possible. The 22nd installment of the Call of Duty series is a companion piece to last year’s Black Ops 6, and while it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it kicks it right off its axis with a near five-hour story campaign that is Black Ops 2 meets the “new weird” genre, a larger round-based version of Zombies called Ashes Of The Damned, and a refined approach to multiplayer that is anchored by the best map selection of Call of Duty’s modern era. It’s relentless and…
Dave the Diver puts you in the flippers of Dave, who by day is a deep-sea diver exploring the depths of the Blue Hole, retrieving treasure and catching sea life. Then, at night, he takes his haul to a nearby sushi restaurant, where they can use his treasures to upgrade the establishment and his catches to serve the patrons. The game has received various updates in its more than two years of post-launch support, including crossovers with Godzilla and the Like a Dragon franchise. In addition to the surprise launch of Dave the Diver on Xbox Series X/S, we also got…
Today’s Xbox Partner Preview kicked off with the reveal of Armatus, a roguelite third-person shooter coming next year by Counterplay Games, the studio behind 2020’s Godfall. The game takes place in Paris, which has become overrun with demons after the fall of humanity. Players control a supernatural warrior hailing from an ancient order who wields traditional firearms and celestial powers, such as a glowing scythe-like weapon. You’ll battle your way through demons in search of a gateway to heaven called the Sunless Gate. A run-based game, death means restarting with different weapon loadouts, and players will gain new abilities the further…
007 First Light is one of our most anticipated games of 2026, and for good reason. After spending years giving us extremely fun playgrounds for Agent 47 to engineer kills in, IO Interactive is now bringing that skillset to Agent 007. Today’s newest trailer gave us a look at James Bond’s car of choice, the Aston Martin Valhalla. As expected, 007’s Aston Martin Valhalla will be decked out with all kinds of special modifications, including guns, weaponry, and gadgets befitting of a 00 Agent. According to IO Interactive, it will serve as a “much-needed sidekick” to the younger version of James…
Little Nightmares III came out earlier this year, but fans of the franchise might have noticed it was developed by Until Dawn developer Supermassive instead of the team behind the former games, Tarsier Studios. That’s because Tarsier has been hard at work creating Reanimal, a new co-op horror game right around the corner. Today, we learned that the game will drop early next year, on February 13. Check out the trailer from today’s Xbox Partner Preview below. Reanimal follows a brother and sister making their way through Hell to rescue their missing friends. In dimly lit sewers, alleyways, and vaguely industrial…
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer magazine, and would you believe that in our 34 years of history, this is the first time we’ve featured a Dragon Quest game on the cover? That’s a wild statement, so during my trip to Tokyo, Japan, to play Reimagined, I interviewed Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii for 90 minutes about the series, what it’s like seeing Dragon Quest VII remade again, game preservation, and more. You can read my full deep dive into Dragon Quest history, as told by Horii, here, but in the meantime,…
Smooth-talking dice rolls, turn-based car combat, and more on show in new trailer for narrative RPG set in alternate 1930s New York Seismic Squirrel have released a new trailer showcasing the atmospheric world awaiting players in their upcoming narrative-driven RPG, Aether & Iron, coming to PC in 2026. Take on the role of Gia, a smuggler in an alternate 1930s New York that has been transformed into a vertical city after the discovery of “aether”, a key component to the newfound anti-gravitational technology. Build your crew, upgrade your skills, and dive into a compelling mystery with a customized car to help…
Tides of Annihilation raised a lot of eyebrows when it debuted during a PlayStation State of Play in February, and the promising dark fantasy action game got another showing today, this time on the Xbox side during its Partner Preview. Curious fans were treated to a four-minute gameplay trailer showing off a titanic boss fight that, frankly, looks awesome. The adventure draws inspiration from Arthurian legend (as in the lore of King Arthur) and centers on an otherworldly invasion of a modernized London. This invasion has fractured the world into distorted mirror realities, and it’s up to protagonist Gwendolyn to travel…
Following the extraordinary success of Vampire Survivors in 2022, developer Poncle has revealed its follow-up game. Revealed during today’s Xbox Partner Preview, Vampire Crawlers in a spin off of Vampire Survivors, bringing the “one more run” mentality that permeates Poncle’s hit to another genre within the same world.As the name implies, Vampire Crawlers is a dungeon crawler. However, rather than the top-down view of Survivors, you play from the first-person perspective in a deck-building roguelike. “It’s about mowing down hordes of enemies using cards, while you explore dungeons, playing as slowly or as fast as you prefer,” Poncle founder and…