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I reluctantly upgraded from my Pixel 4a in late 2024, which means I spent four years clinging to a phone that still felt like a phone. Part of that was the size. The Pixel 4a was small enough to use without performing thumb yoga, a disappearing luxury now that flagships have settled into pocket-tablet territory. That’s an argument for another day. The uglier issue is what happened after I moved on. In January 2025, Google pushed an automatic Android 13 update to Pixel 4a phones. Google’s own support page says the update reduced available battery capacity and affected charging performance…
Burn-9 is a Metal Gear Solid-inspired adventure game where, instead of playing as the agent in the field, you play as their comms in the chair. It was revealed during today’s Story-Rich Showcase hosted by Citizen Sleeper publisher Fellow Traveler, and is set to launch sometime this year. Described as a “Tactical Radio Action” game, another nod to Metal Gear Solid’s “Tactical Espionage Action” tag, your job is to guide the last survivor of an elite black-ops team after a mission has gone terribly wrong. While they are in extreme danger, you are not, and that’s because you are safe behind…
Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a “massive expansion” next year, as is tradition for the series, and we saw the reveal at yesterday’s Summer Game Fest showcase. The reveal on its own raised a lot of questions, but shortly after it went live, Capcom published a video on its YouTube channel to share more details about the expansion and announce that the game is in development for Switch 2. The video is a conversation between Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance’s producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Takuro Hiraoka. As they mention in the video, while Tsujimoto was a producer on the base game,…
I recently tried to cancel an order from a popular food delivery app and somehow ended up playing a tiny, miserable escape room inside a chatbot. I couldn’t type my actual issue. I could only tap preset options, none of which matched what I needed. So I kept backing out and trying again, like the right answer was hiding behind one more bad menu choice. Eventually, I Googled how to talk to a live person like an idiot who couldn’t solve a basic task. The answer, naturally, was to pretend I had a different request. I’m kidding, though. I know…
Virtua Fighter is a long-running 3D competitive fighting game that began way back in 1993. Now, we know the latest project, officially dubbed Virtua Fighter Crossroads, will launch next year. This follows the release of last year’s Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O World Stage, a re-release of 2006’s Virtua Fighter, and is the first new entry in the series in two decades. In our first look at the game’s story, we see what appears to be the series mainstay protagonist, Akira Yuki, up against the Chinese mafia. While there is sure to be plenty of 3D fighting, this story trailer highlights some…
Star Wars Zero Company, the single-player turn-based tactics game coming from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor developer Respawn Entertainment and Bit Reactor, launches this August. More specifically, it will launch on August 27 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, narrowly avoiding the September onslaught of games, which includes Game Informer cover story game The Blood of Dawnwalker, Marvel’s Wolverine, Control: Resonant, and more.This release date was revealed in a new gameplay trailer that aired during the Summer Game Fest livestream today, giving us our best (and first real) look at the latest Star Wars game yet. It also gave us our first look…
Patrice Désilets and Panache Studios have revealed their second game, 1666: Amsterdam. This new action game lets players control a witch in the titular city on a hunt for demonic creatures disguised as humans. Players control Noa Brooklyn, who is living in Amsterdam, which is inhabited by entities called The Originals. These long-living creatures have accumulated and abused their power, but it’s up to Noa to take that power back due to her role as a hunter of sorts called a Collector. To do that, Noa uses magic to expose and destroy the demonic Originals in an open-world Amsterdam. The Originals resemble…
The Blood of Dawnwalker, which recently appeared on the cover of Game Informer magazine, received a new trailer during Summer Game Fest and its biggest surprise was that it showed some modern day elements. Up to this point, the game has firmly taken place in the past (or a fictional alternate history with vampires), but the newest trailer opens with a delivery man entering a contemporary building to deliver a package and the recipient is Coen. The YouTube description for the trailer reads, “Coen’s story will continue – spanning centuries and carrying him to various corners of the world, far beyond Vale…
The Saw franchise is ideal inspiration for a horror game – disturbing visuals made even more horrifying when you’re the one experiencing them. But while I would have expected a single player experience, Saw: Genesis, announced today at Summer Game Fest, takes the franchise in an asymmetrical multiplayer direction. Check out the reveal trailer below: Set in the aftermath of World War 1, Saw: Genesis centers around a character called the Judge, a precursor to Jigsaw. “Customize your approach with perks and traps, then seek to control the match from the shadows,” the game’s Steam page reads. “Unlike other asymmetrical multiplayer…
Capcom has revealed that Monster Hunter Wilds, which launched last February, is getting an expansion next year. Titled “Ascendance,” it brings hunters to a brand new region set somewhere in the skies amongst the clouds and various floating islands, and it will launch next year. The developer specifically calls it a “massive expansion,” signaling that it will likely be as large as previous mainline Monster Hunter expansion installments, like Monster Hunter World’s Iceborn. As you might expect, Ascendance will feature all manner of new monsters to take on, from wyverns to other deadly beasts and more. Check it out in the Monster…